WWE champion Bobby Lashley already had a few years of professional wrestling under his belt when he decided he wanted to give mixed martial arts a shot.
A three-time NAIA National Champion wrestler at Missouri Valley College, Lashley talked about his jump over to MMA on a recent episode of The MMA Hour (transcript via MMA Fighting):
“When I originally came into fighting, I came into it saying I want to do one fight. Then I won one fight, then another fight, and then another fight, and then all these things started getting thrown at me.