During a recent interview, Lio Rush spoke about being broke and insinuated that he wasn’t making a livable wage in WWE.
According to Mike Johnson of PWInsider, there are a lot of people within WWE who are not happy with Lio’s comments.
Here is what he said (h/t to Ringside News for the quotes below):
“There’s a lot of people in the company who are very upset with him about the claim that he wasn’t making a livable wage and we’ve heard from a number of wrestlers that, if he wasn’t’ making a liveable wage, why was he able to bring his wife with him on the road every weekend and why was he flying in first class with his wife as often as he was?”
“There were a number of times wrestlers saw him or passed him in first class or sat with him in first class or passed by him to go to coach so there were some people who were not happy with him.”
Lio’s future is currently unclear. A recent rumor suggests that WWE is considering sending him back to NXT.
On a related note, here is Lio’s response to the reports that he has backstage heat with Finn Balor.