Birth name Lionel Green Trained by MCW Bone Breakers Height 1.68 m Billed from Washington, D.C. | Billed height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Debut November 2014 Billed weight 72.57 kg | |
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Born November 11, 1994 (age 22)
Lanham, Maryland ( 1994-11-11 ) Ring name(s) Lio Rush
Lennon Duffy
LI Green Similar Donovan Dijak, Dalton Castle, Silas Young, ACH, Jay Lethal Profiles | ||
Lionel Green is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Lio Rush. He is signed to Ring of Honor (ROH), where he was the winner of the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament. He is also working for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
Contents
- Early career
- Combat Zone Wrestling 2014present
- Ring of Honor 2015present
- Other promotions
- In wrestling
- Championships and accomplishments
- References
Early career
Green debuted under the ring name "LI Green", but after a negative response to the name from promoters, he changed it to "Lennon Duffy".
Combat Zone Wrestling (2014–present)
Green, as Lennon Duffy, made his debut for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on December 31, 2014, defeating Slugger Clark. He and Clark began to compete together as known as Sudden Impact. On September 12, he changed his name for "Lio Rush" and started a feud with Joey Janela, where he faced him, Trevor Lee and Caleb Konley at Down With the Sickness 2015, match won by Janela. At Night of Infamy, on November 21, he wrestled Joey Janela for the CZW Wired Championship on a losing effort. On December 12, during Cage of Death XVII, he won the CZW Wired TV Championship, defeating Janela for the title. He made his first successful defense against Kevin Bennett on January 16. He lost his title against Joey Janela on February 13 at CZW Seventeen. On March 26, 2016, at CZW Proving Ground, Rush defeated Joey Janela, Dave Crist and David Starr to win the CZW Wired Championship. Rush lost the Wired title back to Janela in a Ladder Match at Down with The Sickness on September 10, 2016, After his feud with Janela was over he stepped out of the Wired Championship picture and started a feud with Sami Callihan becoming a heel in the process for the first time in his career and adopted a darker gimmick.
Ring of Honor (2015–present)
Six months after his professional wrestling debut, Rush took part in a Ring of Honor (ROH) training camp. He, however, was not signed due to his limited experience. After getting more experience wrestling on the independent circuit, Rush took part in another training camp and, now with the backing of Kevin Kelly, Steve Corino, Adam Cole, Jay Lethal and Kyle O'Reilly, was signed as a participant in the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament. Rush made his debut in ROH on December 19, 2015, beating Vinny Marseglia in a dark match. Rush went on to compete in the 2016 Top Prospect Tournament, defeating Jason Kincaid on January 9, going on to defeat Brian Fury on February 6 to win the tournament. On March 31, ROH announced that Rush had signed a contract with the promotion. On Supercard of Honor X Night 1 at April 1, 2016, Rush unsuccessfully challenged Jay Lethal for ROH World Championship. At Survival of the Fittest night one Rush defeated Misterioso Jr., Hangman Page and Sho in a Four corner survival match to be in the Survival of the Fittest tournament final. The Next night Rush was in the Survival of the Fittest match where he was the last to before he was eliminated by Bobby Fish. At Final Battle Rush replaced ACH in the Six-man tag team tournament final to determine the first ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions where he teamed with Kushida and Jay White and was defeated by The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia).
Other promotions
He learned wrestling during 2014 with MCW Training Center. He debuted at the 2014 Tribute To The Legends and created a tag team named "Sudden Impact" with Patrick Clark. On July 18, he won the Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup XV, defeating Brandon Scott, Drolix, Eddie Edwards, Matt Cross and Shane Strickland in a six-way elimination match. On October 3, he and his teammate Patrick Clark won the MCW Tag Team Championship, defeating The Hell Cats and The Ecktourage. They lost the titles thirteen days later to The Ecktourage.
He also competed for Evolve Wrestling where he defeated Fred Yehi on November 6. He lost his match against Ethan Page the following day.
Lucha Libre Elite announced Lio Rush as a participant in the Elite World Championship. On Thursday June 23, 2016, Lio Rush defeated David Tita in the first day of the Elite World Championship to make the quarter final. On Saturday June 25, 2016, Lio Rush was defeated by Michael Elgin.
On February 18th, 2017, Lio made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla at Only Kings Understand Each Other. He was defeated by Ricochet.