Former WWE star Lio Rush did an interview with Forbes where he spoke about a wide range of topics. Here are the highlights:
You said you may legitimately never wrestle again. I don’t think you’ve offered any further context of this. What is the impetus of this? Is this something you still feel?
“Yes, that was definitely a tweet that I made and have thought that it was very real comment. Even before the release, I would talk to family members, I would talk to friends—people that I’m close to in the wrestling business—people that I’m close to outside of the wrestling business. And I would just have this feeling in my gut or in my heart that my wrestling days were going to come to an end. So I don’t know why. I don’t know why I was feeling like that. I just said to myself, ‘I don’t think I’m going to be wrestling for that much longer.
And then once the release happened, it made me just think about it even more and I said to myself: Why jump right back into something when I have all this time where I don’t have to wrestle right now?
I had good times in WWE. I had bad times too. And some of those bad times were a little traumatizing to me. I just thought to myself: Why put myself back in a situation where I was going to be unhappy?”
Does this affect how you’d feel if a company like AEW reached out to you?
“I feel like it’s going to take a lot for me to consider going anywhere because it’s not just about the money to me, you know? It has to be right for me mentally. It has to be like my family. You know, I got a wife, I got two kids and although that money will provide for myself, my family at the end of the day, if I’m not right mentally and I’m not right emotionally, then I’m not even going to be able to do this job.”
