{"id":127656,"date":"2021-09-29T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=127656"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T01:32:54","slug":"lio-rush-signs-with-aew-appears-in-vignette-on-dynamite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/09\/29\/lio-rush-signs-with-aew-appears-in-vignette-on-dynamite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lio Rush signs with AEW, appears in vignette on Dynamite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-995114717\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion, Lio Rush, has signed with AEW. Rush was featured in a special vignette on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/09\/29\/9-29-aew-dynamite-tv-results-kellers-detailed-report-and-analysis-of-miro-vs-guevera-for-the-tnt-title-jungle-boy-vs-adam-cole-moxley-kingston-darby-vs-bear-country-punk-on-comment\/\">this week&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite<\/a>. The company officially announced his signing via social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the team\u2026<br \/>@TheLionelGreen is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllElite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllElite<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wyeCU5HvuI\">pic.twitter.com\/wyeCU5HvuI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1443384287236136960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rush appeared as The Joker in the Casino Battle Royal match at this year&#8217;s AEW Double or Nothing PPV event. After that match, Rush announced his retirement from pro wrestling due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rush was released from the WWE in April of 2020.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/09\/29\/brodie-lees-family-start-jon-huber-legacy-foundation\/\">Brodie Lee\u2019s family start Jon Huber Legacy Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3630918159\"><div id=\"pwtor-2353270431\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion, Lio Rush, has signed with AEW. Rush was featured in a special vignette on this week&#8217;s episode of AEW Dynamite. The company officially announced his signing via social media. Welcome to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/09\/29\/lio-rush-signs-with-aew-appears-in-vignette-on-dynamite\/\" title=\"Lio Rush signs with AEW, appears in vignette on Dynamite\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":127658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[6121,6120,1425],"class_list":["post-127656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","tag-aew","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-lio-rush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/09\/Lio-Rush.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127661,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127656\/revisions\/127661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}