Mark Henry opened up about Lio Rush’s current backstage issues on today’s episode of Busted Open Radio. Henry revealed that he had went to Rush as a mentor, but was lied to and told everything was okay by the young superstar. Now, he’s not holding anything back.
“I pulled him aside the last time I saw him and told him ‘I’m hearing stuff in the locker room. What’s wrong?’ He said nothing’s wrong,” explained Henry, transcription by Reddit user lostmyreceipt. “It was a blatant lie to my face. I let him know that if he has a question, right now is the time to do that. You’re likely not going to run into someone who knows the system like I know the system. He didn’t do that. He lied to my face. Sometimes you have to talk to people that know more than you do.”
Henry then addressed the financial issues that Rush is facing and blamed it on him. “If you can’t pay for a rental car, you can’t pay for a hotel with the money that you’re making every week then you need to change the way you’re spending,” said Henry. “You can’t blame that on the office. If you spent everything before you got it, that’s your problem.”
As far as carrying bags and driving, Henry says that is all part of paying your dues. “Back in my day, they would’ve told him, ‘Lio, Bobby shouldn’t have to drive. He shouldn’t have to carry his bag.’ Yokuzana was my responsibility. … After these comments he’s gonna have to go somewhere, or the company’s gonna have to tell him “good luck with your future endeavors.
“It’s not a race issue. It’s an ego issue. Who are you? Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it. The Rock did it. You better than The Rock? Get the hell outta here!”
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