Miro recently made his All Elite Wrestling debut on Dynamite, but for many years he was known to WWE fans as Rusev.
Last year he was involved in one of the top storylines on Raw, which saw him lose his wife Lana to Bobby Lashley. At one point Lana revealed why she left Rusev for Lashley, and one of her reasons was that Rusev was a sex addict.
Miro discussed the storyline on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, and he noted that original plans called for Lana to reveal he had erectile dysfunction.
“That’s when I came out and they want CJ to say that I’m a sex addict, but the original pitch was that I have erectile dysfunction. They really wanted to kill me like completely because I don’t think in any anybody’s eyes how the baby face has erectile dysfunction, and he’s somewhat of a good guy. And there’s nothing wrong with people having erectile dysfunction, you know, there’s the pills you can take. But that was not the case here and there’s no coming back from it.
“There’s absolutely no coming back from it, and I told him, ‘Vince, this this is going to bury me completely. You have the man that took my wife, and now, I have erectile dysfunction and then I’m going to lose. Well, I was not supposed to lose anyways, but that’s just changing time. I just think it’s a better idea if we do the sex addict thing.’ So he went for it right away, but thank God. Thank God I did not have erectile dysfunction as a character.”
The Lana/Lashley/Rusev storyline was one of the most controversial storylines of 2019, and it eventually fizzled out without really reaching as resolution. One way or another it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a storyline people forget about anytime soon.
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