MVP Has His Eye On Adding Fourth Member To Hurt Syndicate Stable

MVP has officially signed a long-term contract extension with All Elite Wrestling and confirmed that the Hurt Syndicate is looking to expand. That opens up some interesting options for his future in Tony Khan’s company.

AEW brought in MVP and brought together a re-envisioned version of The Hurt Business circa 2020 WWE. Since then, “They Hurt People,” has become a popular fan chant whenever they’re around.

In an interview with Adventure Gamers, MVP outlined his future with AEW and addressed speculation surrounding the group’s potential fourth member. Of course, none of this could be possible if it weren’t for Tony Khan.

“I want to say thank you to Tony Khan, because recently I signed a contract extension and I’ll be with AEW for quite a while in my current capacity and hopefully beyond in a managerial capacity and to whatever extent, possibly behind the scenes.”

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The current lineup of the Hurt Syndicate includes MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Shelton Benjamin. MVP confirmed that the trio is looking to bring in a fourth member to complete the group.

“We’d love to have Cedric Alexander back. But that’s above my pay grade. But if Cedric’s not available, or for some reason we can’t have Cedric, there are a few other guys that we’ve talked about amongst ourselves that we’d like to have. But the issue with The Hurt Syndicate is that our relationship is organic. So you can’t just throw some random guy with us that we don’t vibe with because then that throws off the whole group.”

MVP did not name any specific candidates outside of Cedric Alexander but he made it clear that the importance is with chemistry within the group. Ricochet has been mentioned as a possible option. He joined AEW after departing WWE around the same time as MVP and Lashley, with Shelton Benjamin following shortly after.

MVP also spoke highly of working with Ricochet, Toa Liona, and Bishop Kaun. There are, obviously, a lot of good options for another Hurt Syndicate member.

“It’s my opinion that Ricochet is doing the best work of his career. He’s brilliant. I love working with him.”

MVP added that the Gates of Agony, Liona and Kaun, show potential but need more experience. “I see such a huge upside to those guys. They need reps. And there’s no substitution for reps. And working with them, they’re so eager to learn. They want to get better, they want to work hard. They really just want to work and they want to do good.”

As MVP continues his work both on-screen and potentially behind the scenes, we will watch this situation closely to see who ultimately joins the Hurt Syndicate as its fourth member. Only time will tell who Tony Khan books, but the Jacksonville Jaguars head honcho has made it clear that he will maintain all booking power in his pro wrestling company.