Rusev

Rusev is the ring name of Miroslav Petrov Barnyashev, a Bulgarian and American professional wrestler and actor born on 25 December 1985 in Plovdiv, who is signed to WWE on the Raw brand and performed in All Elite Wrestling from 2020 to 2025 as Miro. In his youth he attended a sports school and competed in powerlifting, rowing and sambo. He signed with WWE in 2010, wrestled in Florida Championship Wrestling and then NXT until 2014, when he and his manager Lana moved to the main roster. In his first WWE tenure he was a three-time United States Champion. WWE released him in 2020, he joined AEW later that year and became a one-time AEW TNT Champion, and he returned to WWE in 2025.