![]() ![]() ![]() I fully started to realize it wasn’t just for me anymore. It started out as a dream job for myself, but the older I got situations change. That is a little bit of a rough thing to deal with too knowing that will be starting school and having to come home and have homework and go to school every day and I won’t be there for him as much as I’d like to be. It is a little rough having a newborn and not being able to be there 24/7. Trying to find that balance in life on the personal side and the professional side. His 3-month-year-old son lives in Maryland with his parents, while his 4-year-old is finishing Kindergarten in Florida: I definitely have not let that situation change the pacing of me succeeding in anything.” Rush has two sons and a family to look after, amidst his work as a professional wrestler. I know a big thing that I tweeted out shortly after that - ‘a mistake shouldn’t be your attacker, it should be your teacher.’ I’ve definitely learned from that situation. What else can you do? You live, you make mistakes and you learn. So it was a bit rough to see so many people turn on me for that, but I’ve owned up to my mistakes.” I’ve worked so hard and spent years trying to brand myself and to show the world that Lio Rush is a top prospect in the professional wrestling world. “It was definitely a difficult situation. 11, 2017 As fans will remember, Rush was heavily criticized following a rude tweet towards former WWE Superstar Emma after she had just been released from the company: Just that fire in his eyes that you don’t see from a 22-year-old.” has always been that guy that is looked at as soon as he walks in a room. He’s dedicated to his craft and he believes in the things that he says, and I think that is a huge, key factor in anyone’s success. ![]() “He’s always had the drive to be one of the best in the world. We all went through Maryland Championship Wrestling and trained together, so for that to be my first match with Velveteen being across the ring from me and Jessika Carr officiating that match was a pretty cool feeling.” Dream and Rush actually worked together training and working as a tag team down in Maryland Championship Wrestling as teenagers: “That being my first match was pretty cool. The first match he had on NXT TV was against Velveteen Dream, previously known as Patrick Clark, a former WWE Tough Enough contestant: Being at Full Sail University, not knowing one day it would lead me to be back in Orlando, but this time not being a student at Full Sail but actually being an employee at the Performance Center”. It’s definitely unheard of for a guy of my age and level of wrestling experience to be able to create a name for myself and get signed to the WWE within less than three years.” My journey to get to the WWE was a lot different. They saw the heart, the drive, the determination, motivations that I have to be one of the fastest rising stars professional wrestling has ever seen. From here he would attend the Performance Center in Florida, four years after graduating Full Sail University: That was my first interaction with anybody from WWE.”Ĭanyon Semen of WWE Talent Relations would call Rush just a year later to offer him a contract, without a tryout. Good things happen to people who wait.’ He definitely noticed my hard work and the passion that I had to be a professional wrestler and be one of those top-tier athletes and top-tier wrestlers in the sports entertainment industry. ![]() Rush first explained how he got in contact with WWE: She debuted on the main roster in 2014.NXT Superstar and upcoming rap artist Lio Rush recently opened up to ESPN about putting his mistakes behind him as he looks to pursue his dreams and become a better man. On Behalf of myself and the WWE Goodluck!”Įmma, real name Tenille Dashwood, trained in Melbourne and then under former WWE, WCW and ECW wrestler Lance Storm in Canada before being signed by WWE in 2011. “To my fans who may have seen this as inappropriate as well as Emma’s fans, I apologize and I love you ALL regardless of the responses. “It saddens me that the ‘controversial tweet’ got completely blown out of proportion and looked at in a very insensitive way. Rush apologised in a statement a few hours later, telling Emma “I respect you and everything you’ve done for our business. Didn’t you just get here? Professionalism goes a long way,” while compatriot Buddy Murphy sent through a gif expressing his disappointment in the comment.įormer WWE champion Bray Wyatt added “you ain’t gonna make it here with the wolves, kid.” But fans and wrestlers quickly slammed Rush for the comment.įellow Australian Peyton Royce tweeted at Rush “wow, kid. ![]()
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