![]() "I was telling him what was happening to me and what I was going through and he told me to keep my head up and we exchanged numbers," Rush said. I just wasn't thinking and wasn't aware of the situation and how real the situation was."ĭarren Young was also released at the same time Emma was, and Rush actually ran into Young shortly after the backlash of the tweet started. I felt so bad and reached out to Emma and at first I had mixed feelings about it and then ultimately I just realized I messed up and it was such a sensitive and real moment and it was new to me because I never really seen WWE tweet anything out like that where they were releasing a WWE Superstar. "Then I started seeing hundreds of comments and then thousands of comments and people just raining down on me and I was thinking, man, I messed up really bad, really, really bad. "It isn't like I am bashing her or anything like that," Rush said of Emma. In Rush's since-deleted tweet, he said "I guess these are the things that happen when you're not TRULY ready for Asuka." I was like, no, it's fine, I didn't mean it in a negative way." People tried to tell me that they think I should take the tweet down and I didn't really see the negative in it at all and I even left it up when somebody told me to take it down. I remember being so entertained with what Asuka was doing and her saying that nobody is ready for Asuka, and honestly it was so stupid. "I didn't even mean it in the slightest way to be hurtful or anything. "It hit me so fast and hard I remember I was sitting at a Waffle House when I tweeted that out," stated Rush. Rush says he initially didn't realize what the big deal about his tweet was, but then it hit him and he reached out to Emma to apologize. He eventually apologized but WWE also disciplined him by removing him from all NXT events for a couple of weeks. After WWE released Emma, Rush made a joke about it on social media which was met with lots of criticism from fellow wrestlers. Rush eventually joined NXT in mid-2017 but found himself in hot water a short time later. So that even put a chip on my shoulder and that is what I believe has sky rocketed me to be signed by the WWE." I took a week off just to disappear for a while and then I kind of thought to myself, okay, this is my chance and my opportunity to show what I am made of and the amount of hard work I can put in and how I can create a name for myself as a solo competitor. "We had all of our matches - we never had a single's match and then he up and left. "Patrick Clark was the one who told me about MCW and we started training on the same day and graduated on the same day," revealed Rush. ![]() They also won the Maryland Championship Wrestling tag team titles when both were just 20 years old. Rush and Velveteen Dream are both from the DMV area and trained together in Maryland. "I made his video and it was cool to see it on Raw because it was like, 'Holy crap! I made that video.' It kind of also hit me like, man, okay, now I am by myself and we started training on the same exact day." "For a split second, literally like a split second it was a little weird because I made Patrick Clark's Tough Enough video," said Rush. Rush joined Lilian Garcia's podcast where he talked about that experience and how it motivated him to eventually reach the position he's in today. ![]() But there was a point where he questioned if he would eve make it to WWE after being rejected by Tough Enough in 2015. I definitely have not let that situation change the pacing of me succeeding in anything." Source: ESPN.Today Lio Rush is an integral part of Raw as the hype man for Bobby Lashley in addition to being an in-ring performer. "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," Rush continued. 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," Rush said. The backlash he received from the controversial Tweet he sent out shortly after Tenille "Emma" Dashwood was released from WWE last year: That was my first interaction with anybody from WWE." '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. WWE NXT Superstar Lio Rush recently spoke to .Īdvice he received from NXT General Manager William Regal before being offered a WWE contract:
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