Rusev and Lana were recently interviewed by Lilian Garcia for her podcast, Chasing Glory. During the podcast, they opened up on a wide variety of topics.
An interesting part was when Rusev spoke about the decision to split him and Aiden English up.
Here is what he said (h/t to Wrestlezone for the quotes below):
Rusev on why they were split up:
“Who’s to say? They had different visions. Management had different visions and we fought and fought [because we wanted to keep it going]. If it ain’t broke, there’s nothing to fix. I keep going back to last WrestleMania because I just watched WWE 24 and the whole weekend, the whole month, was all about Rusev Day, and people singing. Top selling merch and everything”
On if he would like to be paired back up with Aiden:
“We’re way past that now. He’s an announcer at 205 Live now. I am whatever we are and we’ve got to move on. I told her a few months ago that nobody cares about it. We need to do something else. She said, ‘No, no, no,’ but we need to move on”
Lana also mentioned that Vince McMahon prefers Rusev as a heel:
“Our chairman prefers him as a bad guy and I think that’s really what it comes down to”
On a related note, check out Rusev’s comments about some of his frustrations in WWE.