{"id":19745,"date":"2018-06-06T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19745"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:53:14","slug":"nxts-lio-rush-heading-to-205-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/06\/06\/nxts-lio-rush-heading-to-205-live\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT&#8217;s Lio Rush Heading to 205 Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on <em><strong>205 Live<\/strong><\/em>, a vignette was showed announcing the impending arrival of NXT star <strong>Lio Rush<\/strong> to the WWE&#8217;s main roster Cruiserweight Division.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s only a matter of time before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/205Live?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#205Live<\/a> is feeling the RUSH!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsLioRush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@itsLioRush<\/a> is coming soon&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xWjsfUUOLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xWjsfUUOLY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1004187619511525376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lio Rush is coming to the Cruiserweight division: WWE 205 Live, June 5, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GS-KcuaMjF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year old high flyer signed with WWE last year after having a breakout year on the indies in 2016. A product of <strong>Maryland Champion Wrestling (MCW)<\/strong>, he was trained in 2014 alongside NXT Superstar <strong>Velveteen Dream\u00a0<\/strong>(then\u00a0<strong>Patrick Clark<\/strong>). Early in their careers, the two were part of the MCW tag team <strong>Sudden Impact<\/strong>, capturing the MCW Tag Team titles. As well as MCW, Lio Rush earned his early stripes as part of <strong>Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW)<\/strong>, where he is also a 2x CZW Wired Champion, as well as one reign as the CZW World Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19750\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19750\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/06\/SIMCW-e1528296407403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Clark (Velveteen Dream) &amp; Lio Rush in Sudden Impact (Photo: MCW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2016, he broke out as a member of <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>&#8216;s roster, with an explosive aerial attack and personality that made him an indie darling in such promotions as <strong>EVOLVE, PWG, Beyond, WrestleCircus, AAW, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>, and <strong>DEFY<\/strong>, as well as internationally with <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> in Canada, <strong>IPW:UK<\/strong> in England, <strong>wXw<\/strong> in Germany and <strong>The Crash<\/strong> in Mexico. His last indie title was a run as the <strong>House of Glory (HOG)<\/strong> Crown Jewel Champion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREE MATCH - Lio Rush vs Mustafa Ali at Walk Among Us 2016\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQNY8pMA4-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He made his NXT TV debut on an October 2017 episode, where he lost to his former tag team partner Velveteen Dream, followed by his next appearance (another loss) against <strong>Lars Sullivan<\/strong> this past January. For the most part, Lio Rush has primarily been used on the NXT Live Events circuit, although he won the United Kingdom Championship Tournament over <strong>WrestleMania<\/strong> weekend at Axxess, going on to face WWE UK Champion <strong>Pete Dunne<\/strong> on the Sunday prior to <em><strong>WrestleMania 34<\/strong><\/em> in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lio Rush vs. The Velveteen Dream: WWE NXT, Oct. 11, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mFqsnH9gPho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lio Rush&#8217;s call up to the main roster comes just as he&#8217;s released his latest music video for the song &#8220;Money, Money&#8221;, a collaboration single with his longtime friend and rapper <strong>DRETT1<\/strong>, under his rap alias of <strong>L.I.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VPrj8SkM_kQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on 205 Live, a vignette was showed announcing the impending arrival of NXT star Lio Rush to the WWE&#8217;s main roster Cruiserweight Division. It&#39;s only a matter of time before #205Live is feeling the RUSH!@itsLioRush is coming soon&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/xWjsfUUOLY &mdash; WWE (@WWE) June 6, 2018 The 23-year old high flyer signed with WWE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":19752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[316,2,5,3],"tags":[299,180,868],"class_list":["post-19745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-205live","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-205-live","tag-lio-rush","tag-velveteen-dream"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}