If you use any of the quotes above, please credit the original source with a h/t and link back to Fightful for the transcription. Click here to learn more about the championship match. Rush is once again set to challenge Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion on March 21. I feel like being in WWE and being so attached and invested into a specific character helped me find a voice or showed me how to find a certain voice.”Įlsewhere in the interview, Rush noted that he could potentially see his current path leading him back to WWE.

I mean, I could talk, I wasn't stumbling over my words or anything like that but I wasn’t making people feel anything. It’s the new kid, look what he can do in the ring. I was never a promo guy on the independent circuit before getting signed, I was just the young kid. I feel like it helped me in so many ways that I wasn’t thinking about or going into it, not realizing that this was gonna help my talking so much. He was a wonderful spokesperson for the 'Almighty' Bobby Lashley and played his role to perfection. Former WWE Superstar Lio Rush believes 'it feels natural' to see Bobby Lashley working at the top of the card in his current position in WWE. I feel like I definitely made the most out of being a manager for Bobby. Lio Rush on RAW Last year, Rush arrived on the Red brand as the hype-man of Bobby Lashley. It’s all about longevity and getting the most out of what you’re presented because it might not always be like that. I think being with Bobby, seeing the things that he accomplished and seeing that he left WWE and came back and is still flourishing in a healthy career, showed me that it’s a marathon. I knew what it meant, but I feel like I had to go through something in wrestling to truly understand what that meant. I would always replay that quote in my head. But he used to tell me all the time, as well as another trainer of mine, that this business is a marathon not a sprint. “I think the biggest thing that I got reminded of… I give all of the praise and props in the world to my late trainer AJ Meyer, who passed away unfortunately to Leukemia. Lio Rush briefly managed Bobby Lashley on the WWE main roster during his previous run with the company back in 2018.

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