Lio rush retire8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() I mean, s**t, you live in LA, definitely a different kind of place than the east coast, but I think my first time being exposed to that was was pretty culture shocking. I just saw how politics worked, and I was always brought up to be honest and just be me, and I think that is what intimidated a lot of people. A current injury that he sustained at AEW Double or Nothing caused him to rethink his future, and he decided to retire. I remember one of the rumors that I was pretty problematic backstage, or I was arguing with Finn Balor or whatever, and I just always thought that it was so crazy because I'm one of the quietest people ever. Lio Rush made the decision to focus on his family and retire from pro wrestling. "I've always been kind of a guarded person. The only thing to kind of compare that to or see if there was any truth was the person that they were seeing on camera or on TV. There was a lot of rumors that came out about me. It was so easy to make that comparison with the character that I was portraying on television, and I think a lot of people believed. "I can't help but to be me, and I think I spent a lot of years not being myself. ![]() Rush recalled his reaction to those rumors and how he has learned to deal with that kind of chatter. Many of those were about Rush being hard to work with or having an attitude problem. There were many backstage rumors that came out about Lio Rush during his time in WWE. I think that that got me in a lot of trouble, but I realized that that's a part of it, and now that I know that and I experienced that, going back to the point of me bringing up that I was gonna retire, a lot happened with my injury. I think realizing what it was, seeing how things needed to be different or just who I am as a person, seeing how things should be different within the company, within the industry itself, within the business, not the biggest fan of the political game. "I'm young, and I just didn't experience anything like that before. I didn't get a chance to realize what the game was because it is indeed a game that you have to play in order to maintain a certain position or a certain spot, and I didn't realize that. I didn't get a chance to digest what I was even in. ![]() "Being in WWE at such a young age and being skyrocketed up within the company so quickly, from being in NXT for the two matches that I had, initially, and then being brought up to 205 Live and then shortly to Monday Night RAW, and I'm now on RAW every week with multiple segments and being a mouthpiece for, essentially, a WWE legend, I think things moved pretty quickly for me. ![]()
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