Russell Gene Taylor[1] (born January 26, 1987),[1] is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name of Tyler Rust in WWE.

On August 23, 2008 in San Bernardino, California, Taylor defeated Vizzion in the main event at Flirting With Disaster for the EWF American Championship[6] and new female wrestler Aiden Riley joined the KOS.

Taylor held and defended both the EWF American Championship and the NWA Heritage Championship in the early parts of 2009 until losing the Heritage title to Oliver John in a fatal four-way match at the main event of the Cauliflower Alley Club Show after pinning Chris Hero and he lost the American title to Rivera at the EWF's 14th Anniversary Show.

Taylor then participated in Inland Title Series Tournament for a second time in November 2012 and made it to the finals, wrestling 3 matches in 1 night but lost to Jeremy Jaeger.

The two would have 2 championship runs as EWF Tag Champs until losing the belts to Tyshon Prince and Tommy Wilson in January 2015.

In 2012, Taylor was invited to a WWE three day tryout camp, along with other independent notables such as Adam Pearce, Timothy Thatcher and Davina Rose (now known as Bayley).

His first match with KDojo he teamed with Boso Boy Raito and Yuu Yamagata and they were defeated by Omega (Saburo Inematsu, Shiori Asahi and Yuji Hino).

[11] Taylor made his final appearance for the promotion in his first tour on September 13, 2009, as he teamed with Saburo Inematsu and they were defeated by Monster Plant (KAZMA and Kengo Mashimo).

[17][18] From the end of 2010 until summer of 2012, The Fightin' Taylor Boys would do numerous tag team matches and compete in PWG's 2012 DDT4, losing to the RockNes Monsters in the first round.

In June, Taylor took part in secret TV tapings at NJPW's Los Angeles Dojo for a new show named Lion's Break Collision.

In November, Taylor returned to NJPW aligning with J. R. Kratos, Tom Lawlor, and Danny Limelight to form the new Team Filthy.

One week later at NJPW Strong #17, Taylor competed in his last match in New Japan teaming with Kratos, Lawlor, and Limelight in a winning effort against Cobb, Romero, Fred Rosser and P. J.

Rust would continue to be a part of ROH throughout the rest of 2021 having notable matches against Chris Dickinson, Tracy Williams and the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark).

Rust would lose to Lawlor and continue to wrestle for NJPW throughout the rest of 2022, with his last match being an 8 man tag, teaming with his former WWE foe Kushida, along with Rocky Romero and Trent Baretta vs Bullet Club.