A Change Of Atmosphere
IT WOULD HAVE been easy to give up on his dream. When former NXT cruiserweight champion Lio Rush was released from his WWE contract in April 2020, he could have hung up his boots and focused solely on his music career. And, in fact, that’s almost what he did.
“Time stood still for a very long time that day,” Rush said of the moment he was told that he was being released. “I can’t even describe the feeling.”
Rush, up to that point, had enjoyed a successful—albeit sometimes controversial—run in WWE. He debuted
