The Hurt Business (Bobby Lashley, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, & Cedric Alexander) were heavily featured during the pandemic era of WWE with Lashley winning the WWE Championship and Cedric & Shelton winning the WWE Raw Tag Team Titles.
The group was formed in May 2020 when MVP and Lashley first linked up. Shelton and Cedric were added later.
During a virtual signing with K&S WrestleFest, Lashley explained the origin of the group.
"It was my most fun time. Hurt Business was awesome because MVP was not in WWE at the time. Before, I was like, let me think of something I can do. I like the character where it was a mix of Suge Knight, Don King, and The Rock in (Ballers). If you took all those characters and squeezed them all together, that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something where I’m managing people but being tough and fighting. The Rumble came and [MVP] walked in, I was like, ‘That’s him.’ When I was fighting, my boxing coach wore a shirt that had Hurt Business. I always thought the name was cool. When I get back into wrestling, I want to do the Hurt Business. I pulled Shelton aside and was like, ‘I really want to do this.’ I involved P [MVP] and we started talking about it. I called my boxing coach and out of respect, ‘Hurt Business, I want to use that in pro wrestling.’ He was like, ‘Done. Deal.’ When the shirts were made, I sent him a t-shirt," said Lashley.
Shelton & MVP are now in AEW as a duo.
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