Swerve Strickland reflects on his story with Hangman Adam Page.
Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland's story together has been full of memorable moments, from Swerve breaking into Hangman's home to Hangman burning Swerve's childhood home to the ground. The feud culminated in a Lights Out Steel Cage match at AEW All Out earlier this year, with Page coming away with the TKO victory.
While speaking to Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp at the AEW All In 2025 Ticket On Sale event, Swerve spoke about where their story lands on an all time list.
"Man, our bodies do. Our bodies get sick of it. It's still fresh and new. Those guys that you named on that list have, maybe, like 10 years of working together and creating, and like not just one promotion, like multiple different promotions and different territories and doing all that. So is it on that list? I can't say yet, but for the company, the time being, like the short five year history that we have, it's made a huge, huge imprint. Considering all that Hangman's done with Kenny and all those names, even Brian, to even have my name up there with that is pretty big in this short history. But in all time, it's tough. I don't think we have enough time together for that, but just to even possibly be mentioned as a possibility in just not even a full year, that's pretty big, and I take pride in that."
Strickland continued, noting the things that the two bitter rivals have in common, with Swerve believing that they are both hell-bent on success and will do anything to get it.
"There's very few things I think that we have in common at this point that we both would agree with or we would be in connection. We're both hell-bent on success. I feel like we're both able and willing to do whatever we have to do to get it. I think that's like probably the only connection that we would ever have to coming together. But once again, I think that's one of the key things to like continue watching our stories. Like you never know. I think that's where we have our relationship right now. It truly can go in a place that, because we pushed the bar so far, we can go anywhere. People know every time I show up on screen, he shows up on screen, how far we're willing to go. Then when we're together on screen, ‘Okay, we have to watch because we know how far they've gone and they push it every single time. Who's to say what goes on next?’ Now imagine if we were together, how far we would really push if we agree on things. You know, that's a different animal."
While Strickland is currently feuding with Bobby Lashley and the rest of the Hurt Syndicate, Hangman is lined up for an AEW World Title challenge at AEW World's End. You can read more about that here.
Fightful's full interview with Swerve Strickland is now availbale on our YouTube. You can find the interview here.
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