Lionel Gerard Green (born November 11, 1994), better known by the
ring name
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Lio Rush, is an American
professional wrestler
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and
rapper
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. He is signed to
All Elite Wrestling
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(AEW), where he is one-half of CRU with
Action Andretti. He also performs in its sister promotion
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor (ROH) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. The promotion was founded by Rob Feinstein on February 23, 2002, and was operated by Cary Silkin from 2004 until 2011; the promotion was subs ...
(ROH), and makes sporadic appearances for
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
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(NJPW). He has also performed for
Major League Wrestling
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(MLW), and
Impact Wrestling
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, where he was a former
Impact X Division Champion and former
MLW World Middleweight Champion, as well as for
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
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(AAA), where he performed as Aracno.
Rush additionally worked for
WWE
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, where he was the youngest
NXT Cruiserweight Champion, served as the
manager
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of
Bobby Lashley
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, and was the winner of the 2018
WWE United Kingdom Championship
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Invitational. He is also known for his time in
Ring of Honor
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(ROH), where he won the
2016 Top Prospect Tournament, and in
Combat Zone Wrestling
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(CZW), where he won the
CZW World Heavyweight Championship
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once and the
CZW Wired Championship
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twice.
Early life
Lionel Gerald Green was born in
Lanham, Maryland
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to two
gospel
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singers. His childhood bedroom sat above his father's recording studio. He remembered wanting to be a
professional wrestler
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since he was five years old. In his youth, Green struggled with mental health, leading to a brief hospital stay during his teens.
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2014–2017)
Rush debuted under the
ring name
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"LI Green", but after a negative response to the name from promoters, he changed it to "Lennon Duffy".
[ He learned to wrestle during 2014 with MCW Training Center. He debuted at the 2014 Tribute to the Legends and created a tag team named "Sudden Impact" with Patrick Clark, who would go on to work for ]WWE
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as Velveteen Dream. On July 18, he won the Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup XV, defeating Brandon Scott, Drolix, Eddie Edwards, Matt Cross and Shane Strickland
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Strickl ...
in a six-way elimination match. On October 3, he and his teammate Patrick Clark won the MCW Tag Team Championship, defeating The Hell Cats and The Ecktourage. They lost the title thirteen days later to The Ecktourage. He also competed for Evolve Wrestling
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The company featured a roster of wrestlers from all over America, as ...
where he defeated Fred Yehi
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Professional wrestling career
Evolve an ...
on November 6. He lost his match against Ethan Page the following day. Lucha Libre Elite announced Rush as a participant in the Elite World Championship. On Thursday June 23, 2016, Rush defeated David Tita in the first day of the Elite World Championship to make the quarter final. On Saturday June 25, 2016, he was defeated by Michael Elgin
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. On February 18, 2017, Rush made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
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at "Only Kings Understand Each Other", where he was defeated by Ricochet
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. On May 27, 2017, Rush defeated Ken Broadway at House of Glory's "Adrenaline" to capture the HOG Crown Jewel Championship, ending Broadway's almost year long reign. Rush lost the title to HOG World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Gangone in a title for title match at House of Glory's "Never Trust a Snake" on July 1.
Combat Zone Wrestling (2014–2017)
Green, as Lennon Duffy, made his debut for Combat Zone Wrestling
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(CZW) on December 31, 2014, defeating Slugger Clark. He and Clark began to compete together as known as Sudden Impact. On September 12, he changed his name to "Lio Rush" and started a feud with Joey Janela
Joseph Janela (born July 3, 1989) is an American professional wrestler, working for Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), where he is the promoter of the Joey Janela's Spring Break event series. Janela is most known for his work with All Elite Wrestling ...
, where he faced him, Trevor Lee and Caleb Konley at Down With the Sickness 2015; the match was won by Janela. At Night of Infamy, on November 21, he wrestled Joey Janela for the CZW Wired Championship
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on a losing effort. On December 12, during Cage of Death XVII, he won the CZW Wired TV Championship, defeating Janela for the title. He made his first successful defense against Kevin Bennett on January 16. He lost his title against Joey Janela on February 13 at CZW Seventeen. On March 26, 2016, at CZW Proving Ground, Rush defeated Joey Janela, Dave Crist and David Starr to win the CZW Wired Championship. Rush lost the Wired title back to Janela in a Ladder Match at Down with The Sickness on September 10, 2016, After his feud with Janela was over he stepped out of the Wired Championship picture and started a feud with Sami Callihan becoming a heel in the process for the first time in his career and adopted a darker gimmick.
On May 13, 2017, Rush beat Joe Gacy for the CZW World Heavyweight Championship
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. He lost the belt to Davey Richards
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at a non-CZW (DEFY Wrestling
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) show, ending his reign at only 17 days. On July 8, Rush announced that he would be making his final CZW appearance on August 5. Rush defeated Janela at CZW Once in a Lifetime for his last match in CZW and against Janela.
Ring of Honor (2015–2017)
Six months after his professional wrestling debut, Rush took part in a Ring of Honor
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(ROH) training camp. He, however, was not signed due to his limited experience.[ After getting more experience wrestling on the independent circuit, Rush took part in another training camp and, now with the backing of Kevin Kelly, ]Steve Corino
Steven Eugene Corino (born May 29, 1973) is a Canadian professional wrestling trainer and former professional wrestler. , he works for the American professional wrestling promotion WWE as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center and as a produ ...
, Adam Cole
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, Jay Lethal
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and Kyle O'Reilly
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, was signed as a participant in the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament.[ Rush made his debut in ROH on December 19, 2015, beating Vinny Marseglia in a dark match. Rush went on to compete in the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament, defeating ]Jason Kincaid
Jason Kincaid is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in Evolve, Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) in Japan and Ring Of Honor. He is also known for competing on the United States independent scene and within the National Wrestli ...
on January 9, going on to defeat Brian Fury on February 6 to win the tournament. On March 31, ROH announced that Rush had signed a contract with the promotion. On Supercard of Honor X Night 1 at April 1, 2016, Rush unsuccessfully challenged Jay Lethal
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for ROH World Championship
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. At Survival of the Fittest
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night one Rush defeated Misterioso Jr.
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, Hangman Page and Sho in a Four corner survival match to be in the Survival of the Fittest tournament final. The Next night Rush was in the Survival of the Fittest match where he was the last to before he was eliminated by Bobby Fish
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. At Final Battle Rush replaced A. C. H. in the Six-man tag team tournament final to determine the first ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions where he teamed with Kushida and Jay White
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and was defeated by The Kingdom (Matt Taven
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, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia). In March 2017, it was reported that Rush had given his notice to ROH.
WWE (2017–2020)
NXT and 205 Live (2017–2018)
On July 9, 2017, it was reported that Rush had been offered a NXT contract and that his signing was imminent.[ WWE confirmed the signing on August 21. Rush made his first televised appearance on the October 4 episode of '' NXT'', where he was attacked by ]Velveteen Dream
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(his former tag team partner Patrick Clark). On the October 11 episode of ''NXT'', Rush was defeated by Dream in a match. On October 29, Rush joked on Twitter about Emma following her release from WWE; he received criticism from WWE wrestlers and issued an apology. The tweet resulted in Rush being pulled from all NXT events until November 30. He would make one additional appearance on NXT television, losing a squash match to Lars Sullivan
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. He was then off television again until April 2018.
In June 2018, Rush was moved to WWE's main roster as part of the cruiserweight division, appearing on '' 205 Live''. He also established himself as a heel on 205 Live. Upon his debut, he went on a winning streak, defeating Noam Dar
Noam Dar (; born 28 July 1993) is an Israeli and Scottish professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE where he perfroms on the NXT brand and is the current NXT Heritage Cup champion in his record-setting fourth reign. He is also known for his ti ...
, Akira Tozawa
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and three jobbers. He suffered his first loss in a 5-way number one contendership match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, that was won by Tony Nese
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. He suffered his first pinfall loss to Cedric Alexander
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Alexander worked for ROH ...
a few weeks later.
Alliance with Bobby Lashley and hiatus (2018–2019)
On the September 17 episode of '' Raw'', Rush became the hype man and manager of Bobby Lashley
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and was responsible for turning Lashley heel when he encouraged him to attack Kevin Owens
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Steen began his ...
multiple times after their match on October 8. Rush then would later help Bobby Lashley capture his first Intercontinental Championship in a triple threat match against Seth Rollins
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and defending champion Dean Ambrose
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, when Rush distracted Rollins, allowing Lashley to spear Ambrose and pin him for the title.
Following the Royal Rumble
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, Rush and Lashley began feuding with Finn Bálor
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Devitt began his car ...
. His last match on 205 Live would be a number one contendership fatal four way on February 5, 2019, that was won by Akira Tozowa. Lashley's feud with Balor lead to a 2-on-1 handicap match at Elimination Chamber
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for Lashley's title, where Rush was ultimately pinned by Bálor, resulting in Lashley losing the Intercontinental Championship. After the match Lashley attacked Rush, leaving him laying in the ring. The next day, Rush and Lashley were defeated by Finn Balor and the debuting Ricochet
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. The next week, Rush unsuccessfully challenged Balor for the Intercontinental Championship. However, on the March 11 episode of Raw, Rush helped Lashley to regain the Intercontinental Championship from Balor. The following week, Braun Strowman
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and Balor defeated Lashley and Rush in a tag team match. Near the end of the match, Lashley fled the ring, leaving Rush to be pinned by Strowman. Following that, he did not wrestle for the company and stopped appearing alongside Lashley after WrestleMania 35
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in April. Following the April 15 ''Raw'', Rush started an imposed sabbatical away from WWE.
Amidst reports in May that Rush has backstage "heat
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" over issues regarding his attitude, including reports that he was disrespecting veterans, on May 15, Rush removed all mentions of WWE on his social media and replaced it with an email for booking inquiries. The problem has been chalked up to be a possible misunderstanding, due to Rush not adhering by the unwritten rules of the professional wrestling industry. In June, he started posting vignettes on Twitter seemingly promoting a return, while PWInsider
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reported that he was headed back to NXT.
NXT Cruiserweight Champion (2019–2020)
Rush made his return to ''NXT'' on the September 18 episode as a face and defeated Oney Lorcan
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to become the No. 1 Contender for Drew Gulak
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's Cruiserweight Championship. Rush successfully captured the title (which was now renamed to NXT Cruiserweight Championship) on October 9 episode of ''NXT''. On November 8 episode of 205 Live, Rush went toe to toe with Raul Mendoza in a non-title match that received high praise for its athletic competition and hard-hitting combat. At Survivor Series
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, Rush successfully defended his NXT Cruiserweight Championship in an Interbrand Triple Threat match
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that featured Akira Tozawa
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and Kalisto. This is also the first match to give Team NXT their first point of the night against Team Raw and Team SmackDown. On November 27 episode of NXT, Rush retained his NXT Cruiserweight Championship in a gruesome fast-paced battle against Akira Tozawa
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. On the December 11 episode of NXT, Rush lost his title to Angel Garza, ending his reign at 63 days. On the January 15 episode of NXT, Rush defeated Tyler Breeze
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and Isaiah "Swerve" Scott in a triple treat match to compete in a No. 1 Contenders Match for the Cruiserweight Championship against then winner of his No. 1 Contenders Match Angel Garza. He later on defeated Garza on the February 12 episode of NXT and went on to face Jordan Devlin
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for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship on February 19 episode of NXT, in which he failed to capture the Cruiserweight title.
On April 15, 2020, Rush was released from his WWE contract as part of budget cuts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Return to the independent circuit (2020–2021)
After leaving WWE, Rush began to work with many independent promotions, most notably Game Changer Wrestling
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, where he had several matches. In November, he signed a contract with the Major League Wrestling promotion. Also in November, he was announced for New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Puroresu, Japanese professional-wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, and based in Nakano, Tokyo. It is currently majority owned by card-game company Bushiroad, with TV As ...
's Super J-Cup
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tournament, which took place on USA. After failing to win the Super J-Cup, he was defeated by El Phantasmo
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at New Japan's The New Beginning USA. Rush first match with MLW took place at Kings of Colosseum on January 6, 2021, where he defeated Myron Reed to win the World Middleweight Championship. One month later, due to MLW relationship with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
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, Rush defeated Laredo Kid
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to win the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship and became a double champion. However this reign was not recognized in Mexico by AAA, with AAA booker Konnan
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stating that Lio lost the title to Laredo during an untelevised event.
All Elite Wrestling (2021–2022)
On May 30, 2021, Rush made an appearance for All Elite Wrestling
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at the Double or Nothing
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pay-per-view during the Casino Battle Royale
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match as the "Joker", where he was eliminated by Matt Hardy
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with help from Private Party. On June 9, Rush announced he had suffered a shoulder injury during the Casino Battle Royale match and that while AEW had offered him a contract, he was choosing to retire from professional wrestling once his injury healed and he had fulfilled his contractual obligations with NJPW. On September 29, Rush— who had decided not to go through with his original plans to retire— officially signed with AEW. He made his AEW ''Dynamite'' debut on November 10, 2021 (along with his new tag team partner, Dante Martin) in a winning effort against the team of Matt Sydal
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and Lee Moriarty. On January 22, 2022, Rush revealed that his AEW contract was set to expire February 14, 2022, and became a free agent on that date.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2021–present)
Lio Rush made his New Japan Pro-Wrestling
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(NJPW) debut at the Super J-Cup
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. After that, he went on to suffer a few losses from El Phantasmo
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. After a victory over Rocky Romero
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, Rush qualified for the New Japan Cup USA 2021 before making headlines once he and Yoh went on to win the Super Junior Tag League
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Established in 2010, but preceded by the G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League in 2001 (won ...
the following year and will face the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
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, TJP and Francesco Akira
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at Wrestle Kingdom 17.
At Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4, 2023 Rush and Yoh were unsuccessful at winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions from Catch 2/2. On March 21, Rush unsuccessfully challenged Hiromu Takahashi
(born December 4, 1989) is a Japanese professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of the ''Los Ingobernables de Japón'' stable.
Takahashi made his debut for NJPW on Augus ...
for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
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. On April 27, Rush was announced as an entrant in the Best of the Super Juniors 30 tournament, competing in the A block. Rush finished the tournament with 12 points, narrowly missing out on advancing to the semi-finals, although avenging a loss against Takahashi. In a December 2023 interview with ''WrestlePurists'', Rush revealed that a deal with NJPW had fallen through and he was still a free agent.
Impact Wrestling (2023)
On March 30, 2023, Rush made his Impact Wrestling
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debut against Kushida in a one-on-one match at Impact Wrestling Multiverse United of year 2023 in a very impressive matchup but was not successful as he lost via submission. On June 23, Rush returned to Impact Wrestling to team Nick Aldis
Nicholas Harry Aldis (born 6 November 1986) is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is a producer and the on-screen general manager of the SmackDown brand. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wres ...
to defeat The Motor City Machine Guns
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, Alex Shelley
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and Chris Sabin
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After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 f ...
for the Summer Sizzler event. Afterwards on the June 29, 2023 episode of Impact! Lio and Aldis dominated and attacked The Motor City Machine Guns during a segment (This segment was filmed, taped and aired before the tag team match), thus establishing himself as a heel in the process. On June 30, it was announced that Rush will challenge Sabin for the Impact X Division Championship
The TNA X Division Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It debuted on June 19, 2002, at the taping of TNA's second then- weekly pay-per-view (PPV) event. The cu ...
at ''Slammiversary
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''. During this match Rush was victorious and became the Impact X Division Champion for the first time in his career. At Victory Road, Rush defeated Kushida to retain the title. At Impact 1000
Impact! 1000 was a professional wrestling
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, Rush lost the title to Chris Sabin
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After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 f ...
, thus marking his final appearance for the company.
Return to AEW (2024–present)
On the May 29, 2024 episode of ''Dynamite'', Rush returned to AEW for the first time since 2021, as a participant in the Casino Gauntlet Match to earn an AEW World Championship
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match at Forbidden Door Forbidden Door or ''The Forbidden Door'' may refer to:
* ''The Forbidden Door'', professional wrestling term referring to working agreement between promotions
* AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, professional wrestling joint events:
** Forbidden Door ( ...
, which was won by Will Ospreay
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. On the June 1 episode of ''AEW Collision
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'', Rush was defeated by Roderick Strong
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. On the June 15 episode of ''Collision'', Rush approached Dante Martin as a call back to their previous alliance, but would be pushed away by Martin's brother Darius Martin
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(who form the tag team of Top Flight together) and Action Andretti. Later in the show, Rush appeared to save Top Flight and Andretti from a post-match attack from Shane Taylor Promotions
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( Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty and Anthony Ogogo
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). On June 21, it was reported that Rush would be an AEW regular going forward. On the same day episode of ''AEW Rampage
''AEW Rampage'', also known as ''Friday Night Rampage'' or simply ''Rampage'', is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), running from August 13, 2021, to Dece ...
'', Rush defeated Andretti to qualify for the vacant AEW TNT Championship
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ladder match at Forbidden Door, but failed to win the title at the event. Going forward, Rush remained aligned with Top Flight and Andretti. On October 12, Rush officially announced that he was now signed to AEW. On the December 4 episode of ''Dynamite'', Rush and Andretti eliminated Top Flight during the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royale, teasing a split in the alliance. On December 14 at the Winter is Coming
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special of ''Collision'', Rush and Andretti defeated Top Flight, earning a future AEW World Tag Team Championship
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opportunity.
On the January 4, 2025 episode of ''Collision'', Rush and Andretti failed to capture the titles from Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen). On January 18 at the Maximum Carnage
"Maximum Carnage" is a 14-part comic book crossover published in Marvel Comics' ''Spider-Man'' family of titles in 1993. It featured Spider-Man, Venom, and a host of other superheroes teaming up to face Venom's murderous offspring Carnage and h ...
special episode of ''Collision'', Rush and Andretti attacked Top Flight, cementing their heel turn. On the February 22 episode of ''Collision'', Rush and Andretti revealed their team name to be "CRU" as an acronym for "crazy, ruthless, and unhinged". On April 6 at Dynasty
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H ...
Zero Hour, CRU teamed with Nick Wayne
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to defeat AR Fox
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and Top Flight.
Return to ROH (2024–present)
On the July 20, 2024 tapings of ''Ring of Honor Wrestling
''Ring of Honor Wrestling'' (also known as ''ROH Honor Club TV'', and often shortened as ''ROH Wrestling TV'', ''ROH TV'', ''ROH TV on HonorClub'', or ''ROH on HonorClub'') is an American professional wrestling television series produced by Rin ...
'' Lio Rush returned to ROH after 7 years and teamed with ROH World Television Champion
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Atlantis Jr., in a losing effort against Shane Taylor and Johnny TV . On July 26, 2024 at Death Before Dishonor Lio faced Shane Taylor, Johnny TV, Lee Johnson, Brian Cage
Brian Christopher Joseph Button[Survival of the Fittest
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Elimination Match
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for the ROH World Television Championship
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but was unsuccessful as he was eliminated by Lee Johnson. On the January 2, 2025 episode of ROH Wrestling, Rush and Action Andretti defeated Homicide
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and Rocky Romero
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.
Music career
In July 2019, Rush released his debut single as a rapper titled, "Scenic Lullaby". According to Rush, the song is a "first-person account of isdarkest days and the pain he continues to carry." Rush released his second single, "I Wonder", on August 19. On his 25th birthday, Rush released his debut extended play, ''11:11''. On May 11, 2020, Rush released his debut studio album, titled ''Ever After''. On July 20, 2020, Rush released his second studio album, ''The Final Match''.
On September 28, 2021, Rush released his second EP, titled ''Not Found''.
Professional wrestling style and persona
Rush is known for his fast-paced high-flying style. During his early days in the WWE
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's main roster, he became a heel manager for Bobby Lashley
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, a role he was praised for due to his speaking skills. He cited actor and comedian Kevin Hart
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After winning se ...
as his influence to his work as manager.
Other media
Rush made his video game debut as part of the ''Rising Stars Pack'' of downloadable content created for ''WWE 2K19
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''.
In 2020, Rush was announced as a contestant on the thirty-sixth season of MTV's reality competition series '' The Challenge'' and was initially paired with '' Love Island'' alumna Gabby Allen. He left the show on his own accord in episode 6, citing mental health reasons and the stress of the house triggering his childhood feelings of living in a group home.
Personal life
Green resides in Los Angeles, California
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. He has three sons. He married Sarah Lai Wah on December 21, 2018 in Las Vegas
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. Green has several tattoos; he stated that one of the tattoos he has on his stomach is a poem that was written by his mother for his late brother Lorenzo, who died at a young age. Green also stated that he did not know about his brother until he was told about him by his mother on his first day of high school.
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Music videos
Championships and accomplishments
*Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
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** AAA World Cruiserweight Championship ( 1 time, unrecognized)
*Combat Zone Wrestling
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**CZW World Heavyweight Championship
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( 1 time)
**CZW Wired Championship
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History
Th ...
(2 times
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)
*DDT Pro-Wrestling
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**Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
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( 1 time)
* House of Glory
** HOG Crown Jewel Championship (1 time)
*Major League Wrestling
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**MLW World Middleweight Championship
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( 1 time)
*Impact Wrestling
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**Impact X Division Championship
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( 1 time)
* Maryland Championship Wrestling / MCW Pro Wrestling
** MCW Rage Championship (1 time)
** MCW Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Patrick Clark
**Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup (2015, 2016)[
*]New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Puroresu, Japanese professional-wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, and based in Nakano, Tokyo. It is currently majority owned by card-game company Bushiroad, with TV As ...
** Super Jr. Tag League (2022
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) – with Yoh
*House Of Pain Wrestling Federation
**HoPWF Xcellence Championship (1 time)
*''Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
**Ranked No. 53 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500
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in 2021
*Revolution Pro Wrestling
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Revolution Pro Wre ...
**British J-Cup
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(2024
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)
*Ring of Honor
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** Top Prospect Tournament (2016)[
*Tigers Pro Wrestling
**TPW Proud Championship (1 time)
*]WWE
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**NXT Cruiserweight Championship
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( 1 time)
**WWE United Kingdom Championship
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invitational (2018)
References
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1994 births
Living people
African-American professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Maryland
Participants in American reality television series
21st-century African-American sportsmen
People from Lanham, Maryland
Chaos (professional wrestling) members
American expatriate professional wrestlers in Japan
Rappers from Maryland
21st-century male professional wrestlers
21st-century American professional wrestlers
CZW World Heavyweight Champions
CZW Wired Champions
Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
MLW World Middleweight Champions
TNA/Impact X Division Champions
NXT/WWE Cruiserweight Champions
British J-Cup winners
Super Junior Tag League winners