Sam Roberts of the Notsam Wrestling podcast interviewed Lio Rush. Rush discussed his WWE career, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and other topics. Below are the highlights.
His 205 Live experience:
“I liked it. I felt it was a cool introduction to me promo-wise as a character and as a wrestler. I know the audiences are a little different from mainstream TV on the network and stuff like that, from the actual WWE Network because doing that 205 Live schedule, you get to the main roster of SmackDown and you realize like, ‘Oh man. Maybe they don’t watch 205.’ I heavily enjoyed it. I felt like it was the first chapter or first layer of ‘The Man of the Hour’ Lio Rush that the people got to see on Monday Night RAW.”
Not seeing himself as a mic guy:
“I didn’t see myself as a mic guy. That’s probably the last thing that I saw myself as. I probably would have saw myself as a referee before I saw myself as a mic guy. To go week to week to week doing these matches, matches, matches, matches, and for it to just be cut and it be like, okay, you’re a mic guy now, I’m like, okay. I didn’t feel unprepared. I felt prepared because I had been writing the promos on my phone. I had been cutting them outside the PC. I had been cutting them inside the PC. I had been putting them on social media. I had been doing the vignettes, so I’m prepared. I could see why they wanted me to be a mic guy. I just wanted to be a well rounded professional wrestler. I wasn’t cutting promos because like, ‘I wanted to be a manager.’ I felt that even helped me too. It helped me so much. It puts you in a different role. It teaches you how to cut a promo a different way. You’re cutting it about somebody who’s with you rather than yourself.”
How Bobby Lashley like being paired with him:
“He liked it. We both liked it. It was something so new. The silliest things end up being the things people remember the most. Bobby definitely enjoyed having me be part of what he had going on. I feel like it turned into something that we didn’t think it was going to turn into at all because it was so random. Me and Bobby had no kind of connection, nothing. I’ve never even met Bobby before, so the first day of me cutting a promo about Bobby Lashley was the first day I actually met Bobby Lashley.”
You can check out the complete interview below:
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
