Lio Rush returned to AEW in May as a surprise entrant in the Casino Gauntlet. Rush was previously with AEW from May 2021 to February 2022.
Upon returning to the promotion, he was aligned with Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) and Action Andretti.
Speaking on AEW Unrestricted, Rush reflected on his time away from AEW and his return.
“I feel like I’ve had quite the interesting year. I started off the year by doing my own tour called the Where’s Home World Tour. I went everywhere, I was all throughout America, I went to Europe, Canada, and it was honestly a search for my home. I feel like I’ve been on the independent circuit for the last two or three years. I’ve wrestled in other companies throughout the time that I first signed with AEW. I don’t know, I was just trying to figure out where home was.
"Kind of the tail end of that tour, I got a random text at three in the morning [asking] if I could show up at AEW in LA. The casino gauntlet. So many things were going through my head, I was extremely excited. I knew that it was going to be an actual surprise, even though I did a surprise in the Casino Battle Royale before. I knew that this one was legitimately going to be a surprise surprise. Ever since that day, just a lot of hard work, just a lot of staying consistent with myself and staying consistent with AEW. So much time has passed, I’m in a much better place, I’m ready to work. I’m ready to be here, I’m ready to be all elite. I didn’t say that right off the bat, but all the work that I put in, I think that ultimately gave me the time and space to see if I did want AEW to be my home. I feel like if it went any other way other than how it went down at WrestleDream, it probably wouldn’t have been the right fit. Now that I’ve got a chance to be in the locker room, be at all the shows, be on Ring Of Honor, Collision, Rampage, Dynamite, be able to work with Tony, be able to work with the guys and girls in the locker room again, I feel like it showed me that yeah, this is the place I want to be.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Lio commented on his first run with AEW. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
Lio will take on Ricochet on Saturday's AEW Collision.
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