Swerve Strickland on The Rich Eisen Show

[Chris]

On what he expected when signing with AEW:

“Opportunity and time."

“I worked my way up from the bottom, I don’t care. You can put me in battle royals, I’ll lose them all, I don’t care. Just give me the opportunity to show out.”

“Give me the opportunity like ‘Hey, can I get a minute of TV time right here in this spot?’ ‘Absolutely’ ‘Okay, I’m going to make something matter.’ That’s something that you just can’t ask for anywhere else. You can’t just ask for a minute and get it, that’s really tough. I don’t care if it’s Dynamite, Rampage or Collision or Ring of Honor, getting television time forwarded to you is valuable. It’s up to you what you do with it.”

“It’s about opportunity because there’s a lot of people out there I know that are very, very talented that would dream of getting a minute’s worth of television opportunity.”

On building a relationship with Tony Khan for AEW:

“It was also a relationship that I had to build with Tony and All Elite Wrestling. It wasn’t always about me and what I wanted, and I had to learn that too. Through my tenure at AEW, I had to learn like ‘What is it that Tony needs? What can I provide that Tony needs right now?”

Why things didn't work out in WWE:

“Political moves. Just political moves, I can say. I’ll just leave it at ‘political moves.'”

 

[Roy Mustang]

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