Lio Rush Opens Up: “You Live, You Make Mistakes And You learn”

NXT Superstar and upcoming rap artist Lio Rush lately opened as much as ESPN about hanging his errors in the back of him as he seems to pursue his desires and grow to be a greater guy.

Rush first defined how he were given in touch with WWE:

“He just told me to keep working hard. Keeping pushing. 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. That was my first interaction with anybody from WWE.”

Canyon Semen of WWE Talent Relations would name Rush only a yr later to supply him a freelance, with out a tryout.

From right here he would attend the Performance Center in Florida, 4 years after graduating Full Sail University:

“WWE took notice. 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. My journey to get to the WWE was a lot different. 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.”

“It’s incredible. 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”.

The first fit he had on NXT TV used to be in opposition to Velveteen Dream, in the past referred to as Patrick Clark, a former WWE Tough Enough contestant:

“That being my first match was pretty cool. We’ve known each other for years now. 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 if truth be told labored in combination coaching and dealing as a tag staff down in Maryland Championship Wrestling as youngsters:

“He’s always had the drive to be one of the best in the world. He has a work ethic like no other. Strong mindset. 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. [Velveteen] has always been that guy that is looked at as soon as he walks in a room. He has the charisma. He has the personality. Just that fire in his eyes that you don’t see from a 22-year-old.”

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As fanatics will take note, Rush used to be closely criticized following a impolite tweet in opposition to former WWE Superstar Emma after she had simply been launched from the corporate:

“It was definitely a difficult situation. 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. 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 have said my apologies. What else can you do? You live, you make mistakes and you learn. 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. I definitely have not let that situation change the pacing of me succeeding in anything.”

Rush has two sons and a circle of relatives to seem after, amidst his paintings as a certified wrestler. His 3-month-year-old son lives in Maryland along with his oldsters, whilst his 4-year-old is completing Kindergarten in Florida:

“It’s somewhat of a coarse scenario. Trying to search out that stability in existence at the non-public aspect and the pro aspect. It is somewhat tough having a new child and no longer with the ability to be there 24/7. That is somewhat little bit of a coarse factor to care for too figuring out that [my 4-year-old] will likely be beginning college and having to return house and feature homework and cross to university on a daily basis and I gained’t be there for him up to I’d love to be.

“[But] this isn’t only for me. It began out as a dream activity for myself, however the older I were given eventualities trade. I totally began to know it wasn’t only for me anymore. I wasn’t wrestling for 5-year-old Lionel Green anymore, I used to be wrestling for everyone who needed to cross in the course of the struggles I went thru in existence and my friends and family who caught by way of me and supported me since Day 1.”

According to the Superstar, his hobby for tune has at all times been there:

“[My passion for music] has always been there. I always knew I’d get into the music industry in some kind of capacity. I’ve been influenced by friends that I’ve made over the years and the culture that I’ve been around over the years. That led to rapping.”

You can take a look at his new tune video right here.

He talks in regards to the liberate of the tune:

“All of this is just about continuing to brand yourself. Continuing to make a name for yourself. Continuing to show that we wrestlers aren’t just one-trick ponies. People are constantly asking, ‘What’s going on with wrestling? What’s happening with wrestling?’ The perception of a professional wrestler only knowing how to be a professional wrestler and nothing else is a little crazy to me.”

“Yes, I’m still a professional wrestler. Yes, I’m still a father. I’m still everything else, but yes I can do other things, and yes I can be successful in other things. We’re capable of many things, whether that’s bodyslamming somebody in the ring or whether that’s, for me, making an impact in the music industry.”

Finally, the NXT Superstar explains how he has felt operating every day with legends like Triple H and Shawn Michaels on the Performance Center:

“The fact that I’m being able to be trained and coached by one of the greatest in-ring performers who has ever lived — and that’s the ‘Heartbreak Kid’, Shawn Michaels — for him to be one of the trainers there and to be able to learn from him and just follow in his footsteps is a pretty cool thing. Even Triple H. Him being the boss of everything is absolutely incredible. Being a fan, being somebody who’s wanted to be a professional wrestler since they were 5 years old and growing up watching Triple H, watching Shawn Michaels, and then to one day wake up and report to work and that’s my coach. That’s my boss. It’s absolutely incredible.”

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