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Bobby Lashley says that he doesn’t like the term “black champion”

Aaron Rift

As seen during the 2024 AEW Full Gear PPV event, Bobby Lashley defeated Swerve Strickland in his AEW PPV debut. After the show, Lashley spoke to media and responded to a question about coming into a company with several “black champions.” Here was Lashley’s response…

“I don’t like that, I don’t like that [term] ‘Black champion.’ It’s just a champion. We’ve normalized this already, and that’s what I want to do with it. Winning a title as a ‘Black champion’, and there’s other ‘Black champions’ here, we can kind of erase that word now and we can just say ‘champion.'”

“It can be a Black champion, it can be an Asian champion, it can be a Latin champion, it can be any champion. So we have already normalized us, and we can kind of erase that ‘Black champion,’ and it’s just champion now.” (quotes courtesy of Colin Tessier)