Franklin Roberto "Bobby" Lashley is an American mixed martial artist, former collegiate amateur wrestler, and professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Lashley. He is perhaps best known for his time in WWE, where he is a one-time United States Champion and two-time ECW World Champion. Lashley also has the distinction of being the first African-American to hold the ECW World Heavyweight Title as well as the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Lashley attended Missouri Valley College, where he won three national college amateur wrestling championships between 1996 and 1998 and placed fourth in 1995. In 1997 and 1998, he was the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Wrestling Champion. Lashley later joined the United States Army, where he continued to wrestle. He was training for the Olympics in 2003, when he suffered a knee injury while doing business at a bank where a robbery broke out. The injury ended his Olympic plans, and Lashley went into pro wrestling soon after. 

July 16th, 1976 in Houston (Age 47) as Franklin Roberto Lashley