Prior to joining WWE, Tyler Rust was becoming a regular on the NJPW STRONG program. It’s a lot of different roads we all go on but I really hope she can showcase how badass she was becoming because I was training with her a good bit and man, she’s a killer. So it really, really sucks that she got let go for now and who knows, life is long. I was training with her then, I was like, ‘She is gonna be a badass girl when she starts doing these matches.’ She was ready to do something killer in that ring. I remember talking with Marina and Ruas like the very next day actually afterwards like, ‘What’s going on? You guys are supposed to be with us.’ We had filmed some things together so, they were both very, very talented in their background skills and while they were still a little green on the wrestling side, they learned it so well and Marina was gonna be so badass in the ring. That has since been confirmed and Tyler added on by sharing that Marina and Arturo both filmed content with Diamond Mine prior to their releases.
It was first reported by Fightful Select that Marina Shafir and Arturo Ruas were slated to be a part of Diamond Mine.
They made me look good, used well, everybody’s awesome to work with so, NXT’s a really good spot man. Man it was a great experience for me honestly. I had a great experience honestly with every single person I worked with, all the agents, coaches, wrestlers. They never once me, they always made me look well. 24, who served as the armorer and props assistant on ‘Rust. I was there for a good solid year for ‘em and they used me really well the entire time. Scattered thunderstorms this morning, then mainly cloudy during the afternoon with thunderstorms likely. So, I mean, I was out of town actually in Myrtle Beach with my brother at the time, just a little getaway for the weekend and yeah, you get the phone call and I just kind of sat there for a minute on the beach just thinking about it like, ‘Okay, this is gonna change life for a while.’ But, it’s not the end of the road, it’s just a turn on the road so, it’s been a good long run. I’m pretty sure all of us felt it was a bit of a shock when it happened. I’ve talked to a few good people who got the news that day and even the guys who got the clean-up round beforehand. However, on August 6, Rust was released from his WWE contract.I mean yeah. He would work NXT during the first half of 2021 with Bivens as a heel, until June 22, when Rust and Bivens were revealed to be apart of The Diamond Mine stable along with Hideki Suzuki and Roderick Strong. He was once again approached by Malcolm Bivens backstage, who offered him his managerial services. Later on in the night, he was seen backstage talking to Malcolm Bivens. The following week on NXT, he attempted to interfere during Tommaso Ciampa's match with Cameron Grimes, but was attacked by Ciampa.
That same day, he made his debut on NXT, in a "Thatch-as-Thatch Can" segment with Timothy Thatcher as Thatcher’s student under the ring name Tyler Rust. On December 2, 2020, WWE announced Taylor as a recruit to the WWE Performance Center. On October 14, 2008, Rust made his first appearane for WWE, on its SmackDown brand as Ryan Taylor, where he was defeated by Big Show in an "I Quit" match. He made another appearance on the episode of ECW, where he teamed with Joey Munoz and was defeated by Vladimir Kozlov.