Lio Rush uses his haters as motivators.
Lio has been to WWE, a former Cruiserweight champion, been on WrestleMania, has been on AEW and much more. Lio has also retired on multiple occasions and has returned from said retirements. Lio is also a music artist outside of wrestling, which he will be dropping his new EP “Not Found 2” on Friday. Lio recently sat down with Fightful to speak about this and how his detractors fuel his next moves in life.
I think I try to tune it out just because I realize that no matter what I do there’s always going to be a 50/50 to anything. That’s not just with me, that’s with anybody, there’s gonna be people who don’t like your podcast and you’re gonna have people that love it. It’s just different tastes. I don’t like to harp on it too much because even with music, although everything is the same now that my music is starting to grow and I have this deal now and I’m gonna start reaching a different audience and more ears, I can’t really harp on all this stuff, the controversy that happened within wrestling because of different audiences. That’s a different fanbase. So it’s almost like I’m re-introducing myself to this new music audience that I am presenting myself to. It’s half and half. I like using it. It fuels me, for sure. I do like having that tension and that ‘heat.’ I thrive off of that. I like having those detractors to push me and push me forward.
– Lio Rush via Fightful
Lio addressed the constant retirement jokes that get thrown his way, and he just asks “why?”.
At this point, man, it’s just like, ‘Why?’, I can only say this from when I was a fan of wrestling, when I was not in the business—maybe it’s because social media wasn’t around—but I was just a fan of wrestling. I didn’t dig into people’s lives. It’s too personal now. Fans aren’t just fans anymore. They want to be in the know. I guess that’s fine, but there’s a line. If you like wrestling, just like wrestling. Just be a fan. It seems very exhausting to be a wrestling fan nowadays. But I’m fine with it. It doesn’t annoy me. I’m sure it annoys my fans, the people who like and enjoy my work, but me, personally, it doesn’t annoy me. It’s just like a, ‘Why are you wasting your energy?’ The joke has already been made. I’m here and I’m here to stay.
– Lio Rush via Fightful
H/T Fightful
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