Swerve Strickland did an interview with Barstool Sports’ Rasslin’ where he spoke about the state of the AEW locker room.
Strickland defends his AEW World Heavyweight Title against Bryan Danielson at All In this Sunday.
“It’s been great,” Strickland said. “I think everything’s been exploited, definitely been blown out of proportion with a lot of things. They say it’s every other week, but it’s like — go back the last week, what did you hear? Go back the week before, go back the last month, go back to almost like six months now, you’ve heard nothing. So therefore to me, it’s almost calculated to a tee. Right before every pay-per-view, right before every big moment we have, there’s always something that comes out. Because, it’s like, there’s always bickering in the locker room, that’s universal in every workplace.”
“It happens everywhere. So to me, I’d rather have people care and be upset about something than not give a damn at all,” he said. “Like, these are people that are passionate about their jobs and their work and what they do. And they’re also probably the best at what they do, you know? So those people take a lot of those things to heart. That shows me y’all care. Literally to me, it’s about who’s saying what, to how loud it’s being said, to what forum. Like I said, I feel like AEW is always on the defensive of those things. And that’s what comes with being the alternative. Like, we have to play defense a lot in those scenarios. But that doesn’t stop us from continuing to put on great product and great shows. That doesn’t stop people wanting to still come over and be in All Elite Wrestling. That doesn’t stop any of that. So y’all can have fun with the story, but then like, okay, cool, we back to making this money and doing great business and growing.”
“When you look at the NFL, we see the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks fighting each other. And nobody is saying the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to fall apart and their organization is done for and they’re going to lose everything,” Strickland told Rasslin’. “No, it’s ultra-competitive. These are competitive people. It happens. Everywhere.”
Credit Source: F4WOnline.com
