An AEW star is trying to enhance on their first run with the corporate.
Lio Rush returned to AEW in Could 2024, three years after his first stint within the firm got here to an finish. Rush has been aligned with High Flight, Motion Andretti, and Leila Gray and it’s since been confirmed he’s re-signed with the corporate.
Rush’s first AEW run got here to one thing on an unceremonious finish in early 2022 after lower than a yr with the corporate.
The star was one of many most high-profile voices who criticised AEW President Tony Khan after his public spat with former AEW star Large Swole. Rush initially demanded an apology earlier than claiming he’d mentioned the difficulty with Khan and Megah Parekh.
Rush left the corporate when his contract expired.
Lio Rush Went Into AEW Run Scared
Throughout an look on AEW Unrestricted, Rush mirrored on that failed first run with the corporate, and the way he’s modified since then. The star defined that whereas nobody was predominantly in charge for what occurred, his 2021 spell was a catastrophe.
“I feel final time, I had loads of concern. I feel I used to be going into it scared. It nearly felt like I used to be getting one other alternative at being Lio Rush on tv, nevertheless it nearly didn’t really feel honest that I needed to do it on this method. I used to be nonetheless so younger.
I used to be going by means of a lot throughout that point, that was throughout the pandemic so every thing outdoors of what AEW was was clearly occurring and it was type of only a catastrophe off the bounce.
It was no person’s fault, I feel it simply was not the fitting time. I don’t suppose it was the fitting time for me, I don’t suppose it was the fitting time for AEW to have me proper there within the psychological state that I used to be in. It wasn’t honest for each events.
I’m in an area the place I really feel assured, I really feel loads wiser, I really feel much more ready than I used to be earlier than and I do know what I can convey to the desk and I need to provide that. I need to be part of what AEW is doing and I need to be part of the folks that make AEW what it’s. I’m simply going into it with a a lot totally different mindset, and I feel that’s the largest distinction.”
Rush was most just lately in motion on the October sixteenth episode of Dynamite the place he misplaced out to Shelton Benjamin.
H/t to Fightful