Swerve Strickland is leading AEW's newest stable, the Mogul Affiliates, and he is keeping himself busy as he wants to help Parker Boudreaux wipe away the comparisons of him being Brock Lesnar.
Strickland joined Fightful's The Wrestling Perspective Podcast with Lars Frederiksen and Dennis Farrell, and discussed various topics. One of the topics that came up was Boudreaux. Strickland was asked if he felt like the person who would "maybe help him wash off that next moniker."
"Oh yeah, there's a lot of pressure on me, as far as that goes, but I put that pressure upon myself. There are many people in the fan base that doubt that. I feel the conditioning is to doubt what they're uncomfortable with, what they're not used to. They doubt it right away. That's the adversity that we go to when, and that's like, honestly, that's the weight that we bear as entertainers as artists, performers." Strickland would tell The Wrestling Perspective Podcast.
Boudreaux, who did not make his in-ring debut WWE until December 2021, was being compared to Brock Lesnar before even his first match. Their sizes, their looks, and both were NCAA Division I athletes.
"You want to give fans something that hasn't necessarily been done. I kept listening and seeing social media, saying that “we wanted you to have two other high flyer's. We wanted you to have a trio [team] to go against Kenny Omega, and The Young Bucks, and other trios guys, like Top Flight. We wanted that, oh, that's what you wanted. Well, I'm not gonna give you that, then. I'm going to take these two guys and make something you did not know. It's what you wanted, and that's going to take time to do. Having Parker slowly wipes that comparison away, I don't want him to be compared to anybody."
Real Disturbing pic.twitter.com/wlPAbVVXl7
— PARKER BOUDREAUX (@TheParkerB_) February 6, 2023
Strickland faced Brian Pillman Jr. on last week's episode of AEW Rampage. Strickland would defeat the second generation wrestler by pin.
"I don't want my other man [Trench] to be compared to anyone, either, especially since he's so new. The best thing about him is that you can't compare his to his look to any other wrestler, and I think that's the beauty of it. You can't really compare me to any other wrestlers out there either, that's the beauty of that. Parker, we’re going to mold him into something where he’s just not trying to put on this persona that he’s like, ‘Oh, I have to be this. No, you’re such a cool, laid back dude, with being in the hip-hop circles and so involved in the culture and stuff like that with us. We have to start showing people that. We have to start making people feel like, ‘Oh, okay, I see where he’s at now. Now I’m feeling him.’ That’s how you wipe away the whole Brock Lesnar comparisons.” Strickland said.
"We're coming to take over the whole game. All you know me for is one thing, and that's winning, gettin' big money." #TheBiggestBoss @rickross lays out the plans for @swerveconfident and his Mogul Affiliates! #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/jCC9ULqx5t
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 22, 2022
Strickland discussed the reasoning and shared details on why he and the Mogul Affiliates targeted Dustin Rhodes. Click here to see what he had to say.
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