"It's not about race and it has never been, but public perception is important to me and when we have fans that travel all over the globe and watch us get off of buses and into hotels, the look of a black kid carrying waters and bags for other wrestlers is just not a good look, especially when I'm trying to portray myself as a superstar as well," he said in a May 2019 interview. For those, Rush said he would honor them, but beyond that he would be done wrestling. It is important to note that he still has contractual obligations to NJPW as well. Based on that development, the former WWE Superstar opted to retire from in ring competition. Rush took to Twitter today to make the announcement. I legitimately might not ever wrestle again. While Lio Rush only recently arrived to AEW, his arrival resulted in a shoulder injury. Former WWE star Lio Rush has announced he is coming out of retirement. Reports of him having backstage heat kept popping up, though he'd explain in interviews that it came from misunderstandings about how he felt he should be treated backstage. A current injury that he sustained at AEW Double or Nothing caused him to rethink his future, and he decided to retire. Following Lashley's loss to "The Demon" Finn Balor at WrestleMania 35, Rush was pulled from television. Rush last competed for AEW on Decemin a Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal where he was involved in one of the major subplots alongside Dante Martin in the midst of a feud with Team Taz. Lio Rush made the decision to focus on his family and retire from pro wrestling. He signed with WWE in mid-2017 and was briefly apart of the NXT and 205 Live rosters before settling into his role as Bobby Lashley's hype man/tag partner. Rush, real name Lionel Green, made his wrestling debut in 2014 and climbed up the independent ranks with stints in Ring of Honor and CZW.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |