Swerve Strickland did an interview with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson on No Contest Wrestling.
During it, he reflected on using staple guns and concrete in matches.
“It’s an instrument used to punish, over and over again. For most people, one staple is enough. Me, I’ve been around the block. I can walk through them now. It’s also one of those things where you see this everyday item, it’s something that would be around the ring area, it’s a logical item. If you look at the sledgehammer, you automatically know who you think of. You look at a black baseball bat, you know who you think of. Sting or (Chris) Jericho. You look at certain items. A staple gun is now something synonymous with me. That and a cinder block. They’re very common items, they’re not hard to find. Now, when you see them, you think back to me and that moment. You’ll get flashbacks that are traumatic or ‘I had a great moment watching that.’ It’s one of those things I wanted to implement in my whole character, creating the most dangerous man in AEW. Now, syringes are in that.”