Strickland says he’ll have to put a different type of working boots on.
To promote AEW Blood & Guts which took place on 7/24, the Battleground Podcast conducted and released an interview with AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland.
There have been multiple matches between Strickland and Ricochet and with the report of Ricochet leaving WWE and entering free agency, Strickland was asked about the idea of facing him in AEW. He stated that the competition is stiff in the company.
I mean, we’ve (Swerve & Ricochet) had our matches without the masks in MLW. We’ve had Strickland versus Ricochet before. It’s up to him. I don’t know. We’ll see. Competition’s stiff in AEW and there’s also a different type of ladder to climb in a lot of different ways here. It doesn’t necessarily make it easier. It’s difficulties on both sides of things, and you gotta adapt. AEW is — now more than ever, you gotta be an adaptable performer, way more so in AEW nowadays and so, if that’s true, get ready to put a different type of working boots on, and there’s a lot of people that don’t wanna make it easy, for anybody. It’s already not easy for me in the position I’m in. So, and I’ve been in the position of the new guy coming in and I had to adapt. A lot of people have tried to adapt and they couldn’t do it. So, that goes to show you the type of locker room, the type of talent, the type of energy, the type of workload that comes in AEW.
Strickland was part of Team AEW in Blood & Guts and they scored the win. The World Champion was out of the match for the backend of it due to him and Hangman Adam Page taking one another out.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit the Battleground Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
