RUSH Officially Signs With All Elite Wrestling
RUSH has officially signed with All Elite Wrestling.
RUSH has officially signed with All Elite Wrestling.
AEW president Tony Khan announced the news in a tweet on September 30. RUSH will compete on the September 30 episode of AEW Rampage; he will face John Silver in a singles match.
It’s official: @rushtoroblanco is
All Elite!What a week for Rush!
Yesterday was his birthday, today he’s All Elite, and it’s
Rush vs @SilverNumber1 TONIGHT on
Friday Night #AEWRampage!Don’t miss Friday Night #AEWRampage on @TNTdrama
@ 10pm ET/9pm CT TONIGHT! pic.twitter.com/ScImPIpteT— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) September 30, 2022
RUSH made his AEW debut in a taped vignette at AEW Double or Nothing 2022. Since then, he has been paired up with Andrade El Idolo. He made his in-ring debut on the June 29 taping of AEW Rampage, where he competed in the Royal Rampage battle royale. He faced AEW Interim World Champion Jon Moxley on the July 27 episode of AEW Dynamite. RUSH also competed in the Casino Ladder Match at AEW All Out.
RUSH is a former ROH World Champion, and he had been featured in ROH until he went down with a knee injury in August 2021. He missed the last several months of the year and the beginning of 2022 before he started performing again in Mexico.
Before his prominent run in ROH, RUSH starred in CMLL, and he also competed for AAA. He is a two-time CMLL World Tag Team Champion, among other accolades.
Since his arrival in AEW, RUSH has seemingly kicked Dragon Lee out of La Faccion Ingobernable. More informaiton is available here.
