Lio Rush discusses his WWE release, clashing with Triple H & Ever After [EXCLUSIVE]

We recently caught up with Lio Rush!
We recently caught up with Lio Rush!
Lio Rush took RAW by storm before his hiatus
Lio Rush took RAW by storm before his hiatus

You recently put out a tweet to say you may never wrestle again. Could you clarify that?

I think it was both. I knew that this album was coming out, I knew I was going to continue to pursue music so, in that sense, I'm thinking, 'Man, I'm doing so much with music, this is a passion of mine, I just might not step into the ring again.'

There's also another layer of that tweet where it is a pretty real situation because, before the release, I always told myself and I would talk to my family members and friends, inside and outside of the business and say, 'I have a gut feeling that I'm not going to be in the world of wrestling anymore.' Obviously the memories and the mark that I left on wrestling will stay there but me physically being a part of the wrestling business might disappear sooner than later.

Yeah, I don't know what it was but, even after the release, it just made me think about it even more. There's just a lot of things that I've gone through in the wrestling business that I feel like have traumatized me in a way and that has just been pretty disappointing.

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Looking at me as a kid and wanting to do this, and just seeing the bright lights and the action, and daredevil stunts and stuff like that, to me, becoming one of the people in the business and being part of the action but, you know, I didn't realize all the stuff that came with that, backstage, like the politics and all of the... Excuse my language but the bull**** that goes on in wrestling and I took a lot of time out of my personal life to invest into wrestling - and I feel like it definitely caught up with me - and now that I have this opportunity to be home with my family and focus on myself and my relationships, and my music.

I'm just happy right now, and why would I put myself back in a position where I didn't have control over a lot of things, and I was frustrated, angry, confused? Why put myself back in that position when I can be over here and be happy, and stay happy?

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Last time we spoke, you were taking some time away from WWE. You did end up back and winning gold. How did that happen?

Yeah, I think so, just because, when I took that hiatus from the company, I thought that they were done with me. During that entire time period when I was home, which was the six months, I didn't hear a single word from the company. There was no urge to reach out to me to see how I was doing and how my family was doing, there was no urge to keep me updated on what my wrestling career was going to be.

So I moved on with life. I moved on with everything. I came to the conclusion, or better yet, I realized and I accepted the situation for what it was, and I just told myself and told my family that it was time to move on, and then I was in California because I was looking at some property there because I was going to move to California.

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While I was out there, I got a call from Hunter [Triple H] saying that he wanted to bring me back but, this time, for NXT because they were going to relaunch the whole brand on USA Network and they thought my past exposure on USA Network could help NXT with their exposure on the USA Network.

So, it definitely came as a surprise to me. I think the thing that came as a surprise to me was me being called back to NXT but, once I was there, I don't think that was a surprise to me that I won a Championship because I feel like I've worked my ass off to earn it.

I feel like I earned the spot of being the face of the Cruiserweight Division, just because of everything that I've done and sacrificed, the time, effort and hard work I put in to invest in myself, to show people that not only am I the best, or think or believe that I'm the best in the world at this but that I can be a face of a division and of a brand.

So, yeah, I don't think me winning the Championship came as a surprise to me because I knew that I was going to work my *** off to get there.

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