Swerve Strickland talks Dustin Rhodes, Travis Scott, more

[Chris]

On Dustin Rhodes:

“Dustin, in general, he’s been the guy behind a lot of my great matches. He doesn’t tell me what to do, but he suggests things and where they should go. And he always puts a perspective on it where I’m like, ‘Oh, now you got me really thinking.’ And then I’m like, ‘How would you do it?’ And he’s like, ‘Well, I would go this way with it,’ but he never tells me what to do.”

On Travis Scott's involvement with Cody Rhodes:

“That’s a lot of excitement, that’s a lot of pressure, and that’s what happens when you get excited with someone who’s not in our industry.”

“Sometimes you want just the natural reaction from other people outside of wrestling. You want them to just be natural, just flow, and feel, because then it’ll feel real. But sometimes that stuff happens, and it’s like, ‘Ah, too far.’”

On moral with AEW:

“Yep, there’s nowhere else I would rather be. A lot of people say like, ‘Oh, that’s just PR, he’s supposed to say that.’ No, I mean that from the bottom of my heart, there’s no other place I’d rather be.”

“Do I have bad days as opposed to good days? Of course. This is a job. I have frustrations here and there, but I work through those frustrations better here than I did in other places anywhere else in the world. Whether it be Lucha Underground, MLW, WWE, NXT, I’ve found Tony Khan and I have always worked through frustrations.”