Major WWE Star Eyes Mayoral Career After Retirement

WWE star Rusev wants to be a mayor in the future.

Rusev (aka Miro) kicked off his pro wrestling career in 2010 when he signed with WWE. He worked with the Stamford-based company for a decade until he was released from his contract as part of budget cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was with AEW for a few years before returning to WWE in April 2025.

Rusev was the special guest on the first episode of his wife, CJ Perry’s (aka Lana) new podcast called Identity Crisis. During the podcast interview, he revealed he will run for mayor in the future, after his WWE career is over.

“I’ll be mayor one day. But yeah, follow my political career, please, in Bulgaria. When the time is right….That’s not going to be for a while. I still got WWE contracts.” (From 40:52)

WWE Star Rusev Served Lana Divorce Papers On Her Birthday

In the same podcast, Perry and Rusev also discussed their love, relationship, and marriage, where the female star revealed that her husband once sent her divorce papers on her birthday. They got married in 2016, but were separated for a while in 2023. However, they found their way back to each other eventually and renewed their vows in 2025.

You know it’s interesting because when I think back for, he served divorce papers on my birthday.

I see that it’s the attorney like this is you know, like the attorney that the divorce attorney that had contacted me, and I see March 22nd, the attorney had responded to like asked him something. He’s like okay let me try to overnight it so I can beat her to the punch. I swear, and I was reading this, I was like, he wants to beat me to the punch for our, this is our marriage, you know.