AEW star Bobby Lashley’s love triangle storyline with Lana (CJ Perry) and Rusev (Miro) was one of many extra uncomfortable angles to observe on tv and has since been criticized on-line. Not too long ago Lashley sat down with “Perception with Chris Van Vliet,” the place he appeared again on the angle and the way he managed via all the things whereas being extremely uncomfortable himself.
“I can truthfully say it was 100% Lana that was in a position to make me really feel comfy doing it, after which to simply attempt to do issues, to actually additional that complete feud. She was on high of all the things,” he claimed. Lashley famous that Perry would set up photographers in public to deliver some extra realism to the angle. “She was like, pulling me in all these completely different instructions. And I used to be identical to are you cool with all this? She’s like, sure, as a result of she is aware of appearing and she or he’s in a position to put herself into characters.”
Lashley additional described Perry as a “sweetheart” and famous that a number of folks have been onerous on her backstage as a result of she tries an excessive amount of and too onerous, which finally ends up coming off as insincere. “I feel some folks form of jumped on her about it,” he mentioned. “However working together with her, I feel she’s a sweetheart and she or he actually helped me really feel comfy in that function. I had nothing however respect for her for going via it, as a result of she stored it very respectful.” A number of years in the past, Miro appeared again on the angle and claimed that whereas Perry was devoted to it, WWE had no endgame technique and that it was all simply to get an enormous pop and trigger controversy.
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