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Franklin Lashley Flag of United States
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Ring name(s) Blaster Lashley
Bobby Lashley
Lashley
Billed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1]
Billed weight 273 lb (124 kg)[1]
Born July 16, 1976 (age 30)[2]
Junction City, Kansas[2]
Billed from Colorado Springs, Colorado[1]
Trained by Ohio Valley Wrestling
Debut 2003

Franklin Roberto (Bobby) Lashley (born July 16, 1976)[2] is an American professional wrestler better known as Bobby Lashley. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its ECW brand where he is the reigning ECW World Champion.

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[edit] Wrestling career

[edit] Early career

Lashley attended Missouri Valley College, where he won three national amateur wrestling championships between 1996 and 1998, placing fourth in 1995. Throughout 1997 and 1998 he was the NAIA National Wrestling Champion, competing at the weight of 177 pounds (80 kilograms).[3] Lashley later joined the United States Army, where he continued to wrestle.[2][4]

In November 2003, Lashley moved to professional wrestling and signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment and was assigned to its farm federation, Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he started his training under Lance Storm. While in OVW, Lashley was a monster heel and was known as Blaster Lashley, and was a member of the Bolin Services stable along with Mike Mondo, and Ken Doane. In mid-2005 Lashley appeared at four live events, wrestling in dark matches for both the RAW, SmackDown! brands. [2]

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

[edit] SmackDown!

On September 23, 2005, Lashley made his televised WWE debut on SmackDown! under the name Bobby Lashley (or simply Lashley). Lashley was introduced as a three-time National Amateur Wrestling Champion, four-time All-American, a two-time Armed Forces Champion and a 2002 Silver Medalist at the Military World Championship. In his first match, he squashed Simon Dean then, in his pay-per-view debut at No Mercy 2005, defeated Dean once again. Lashley went on to defeat numerous superstars both on Velocity and SmackDown!.[2]

On the November 11, 2005 episode of SmackDown!, Lashley defeated Orlando Jordan in a qualifying match for a place on Team SmackDown! at the 2005 Survivor Series where, despite a dominating performance, he was the first to be eliminated. [5][6]

On January 6, 2006 Lashley became the first announced participant from SmackDown! to be entered into that year's Royal Rumble.[7] At the Royal Rumble, Lashley was the eighth wrestler to enter the match where he made quite an impression eliminating Sylvan and by putting in a dominating performance. However, he ended up being eliminated quite early (sixth) by RAW's World Tag Team Champions Kane and The Big Show.[8]

Following the Royal Rumble, Lashley began a feud with John "Bradshaw" Layfield leading up to a match at No Way Out 2006. The match ended up being Lashley's first loss in singles competition thanks to interference from Finlay. [9]

During February and March, Lashley was involved in an intense feud with Finlay which saw the pair brawl on many occasions even until the pair were put into a in a Lumberjack match that Finlay won (after use of his shillelagh).[10]

On April 2, 2006, Lashley competed in his first WrestleMania (WrestleMania 22) after winning a Last Chance battle royal last eliminating MNM.[11] Lashley lost the Money in the Bank ladder match he competed in which was won by Rob Van Dam.[12]

Lashley next entered SmackDown!'s King of the Ring tournament. He lasted until the finals, defeating Mark Henry and Finlay in the process.[2] In the final round, held at Judgment Day he was defeated by Booker T with help from Finlay. Later, as Booker was being crowned, Lashley speared Booker from his throne.[13]

These acts developed into a feud with the newly named "King Booker" and the other members of his court, Queen Sharmell, Finlay and William Regal. During this feud Lashley won his first professional wrestling championship by defeating John "Bradshaw" Layfield for the WWE United States Championship, which he lost to Finlay a little less than two months later. [14][15] Lashley would join forces with Batista against the Court.

Not long after losing the title, Lashley was declared unable to compete according to a physician who stated that during an annual exam, Lashley was found to have elevated enzymes of the liver; therefore, would not be cleared to wrestle until further evaluation.[16] Lashley returned a couple of weeks later to the SmackDown! roster to continue his feud with the court and went on to earn his first match for the World Heavyweight Championship at No Mercy 2006 against King Booker. This match later became a four way bout that also included Batista and Booker's ally, Finlay, which King Booker won after pinning Finlay.[17]

[edit] ECW

On November 14, 2006, Lashley moved to the ECW brand, making a surprise appearance. Lashley went through first Hardcore Holly then speared the Big Show on the entrance ramp to sign a contract for the final spot in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW World Championship at December to Dismember. [18] At December to Dismember, Lashley was the fifth person released into the match. He eliminated Test and The Big Show by pinfall after a Spear to both to become the new ECW World Champion. This made Lashley the first African American to hold the ECW title. [19]

Lashley then had successful title defenses against Big Show, Rob Van Dam, Test, Hardcore Holly, RAW´s Kenny Dykstra and SmackDown!´s Mr. Kennedy.[2] On an edition of RAW held on March 19, 2007, Lashley officially became the first person to break Chris Masters' twenty-three month long Masterlock Challenge.[20]

In early 2007, Lashley was selected by Donald Trump to represent him in a "Battle of the Billionaires" matchup against Vince McMahon's representative, Umaga. At WrestleMania 23, Lashley defeated Umaga following a Spear and helped Trump shave McMahon's head afterwards in accordance to the match's losing stipulation.[21]

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • Managers

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

Lashley as ECW World Champion.
Lashley as ECW World Champion.
  • Missouri Valley College National Championship (1996, 1997, and 1998)
  • NAIA National Wrestling Champion (1997, 1998)
  • Armed Forces Champion (2 times)
  • CISM World Championship Silver Medalist (2002)

[edit] Personal life

Lashley graduated from Missouri Valley College in 1999 with a degree in Human Service Agency Management.[4] Lashley currently has a daughter, Kyra, that was born in 2005. In 2007, Lashley opened up a shop that sells health smoothie drinks.[22] Lashley along with Edge, Randy Orton and John Cena made an appearence on Deal or No Deal, helping a WWE fan win $106,000.[23]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Bobby Lashley profile. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Bobby Lashley profile. Bobby Lashley Online. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  3. ^ All-American Men's Wrestling Records. Missouri Valley College. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  4. ^ a b Meet the N.A.I.A.'s-Bobby Lashley. N.A.I.A.. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  5. ^ SmackDown! results - November 11, 2005. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  6. ^ Survivor Series match result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  7. ^ SmackDown! results - January 6, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  8. ^ Royal Rumble 2006 result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  9. ^ No Way Out - Lashley/JBL result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  10. ^ SmackDown! results - March 17, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  11. ^ SmackDown! results - March 24, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  12. ^ WrestleMania 22 - Money in the Bank result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  13. ^ Judgment Day - Lashley/Booker result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  14. ^ SmackDown! results - May 26, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  15. ^ SmackDown! results - July 14, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  16. ^ Lashley unable to compete. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  17. ^ No Mercy - Fatal Fourway result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  18. ^ ECW results - November 14, 2006. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  19. ^ December to Dismember - Extreme Elimination Chamber result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  20. ^ RAW results - March 19, 2007. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  21. ^ WrestleMania 23: Battle of the Billionaire result. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  22. ^ Chamberlain, Adrian. Champ keeps his cool at highly uncool question. Times Colonist. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  23. ^ Sign-ing a Deal?. WWE.com. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.

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