Over the past couple of years, former AEW World Tag Team Champion Swerve Strickland has become one of the fan favorites in the Jacksonville-based promotion. With AEW All In only a few months away, the fans have been demanding a major match-up for Strickland. They want to see him wrestle the Aerial Assassin Will Ospreay.
Recently, while speaking with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com, Swerve Strickland mentioned that he feels honored to be in a position where fans want him to main event Wembley Stadium against Ospreay.
“That’s [fans wanting Swerve Strickland to wrestle Will Ospreay at AEW All In 2024] a huge honor for me. Coming from where I was like two years ago, being let go and a lot of people like, ‘Who is this guy?’ Whoever was familiar with me in NXT or not. Or even familiar with my career on the independence. It… Coming from there to being like, ‘Yes we want this guy as champion and main event of Wembley against this guy,’ who is widely regarded as the best in… Of this generation period. And I will agree with them.”
Swerve Strickland on Will Ospreay
The leader of the Mogul Affiliates also shared his thoughts on Ospreay and reflected on the time the two wrestled each other in the Indies.
“Will Ospreay is inhuman in my eyes. He’s been a video game character since I’ve been wrestling since he was 18 years old. I knew it then. That’s a huge honor and I truly appreciate that. And that’s a huge… I don’t take that kind of stuff lightly. I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a lot… That’s a big responsibility for me to even like, be considered in that plane.”
Swerve Strickland: We haven’t hit our prime yet
“Cuz, not that long ago, I was not even nowhere in the conversation. I think that shows the future of what pro wrestling really is. And the present actually as a matter of fact. And we are still in young, prime ages. We have some, we haven’t hit our prime yet. And you know to share that with Will who’s been a little brother to me for the longest time, for many years. That would be a huge honor. I’d have to pack a lunch and a dinner plate to get in the ring with that man at this point right now. But I think I can do it. I think we both can do it. I think it’s also something people can look at and be like, ‘Wow!’
“We… There’s been this discussion about diversity in the company, pro wrestling period. All around like no… Every company like to have like an African American man stand in the middle of that as a main event as champion is a… I think that’s huge. And I thinks that’s my spot in history as well,” Swerve Strickland said.
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