Swerve Strickland says fans are seeing new elements of Ricochet.
Former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland has been feuding with Ricochet since December. The feud has continued to heat up, as Ricochet stabbed Strickland with scissors and stole the Embassy Robe, and Strickland has continued to take shots at Ricochet. They are set to clash in a match where the winner will earn a world title shot at AEW Revolution.
Speaking with Denise Salcedo for Instinct Culture at the "Queen of the Ring" premiere, Swerve Strickland was asked about his feud with Ricochet.
“Honestly, what you’re seeing is over ten years of animosity between two guys. Truth be told, me and Trevor, Ricochet, haven’t always gotten along, and you’re seeing that play out. Now, you’re seeing also someone be pushed to the brink of snapping, someone who’s literally taken a lot of crap over the last couple years in his career, to finally finding his footing in a place where he honestly feels he belongs, and he’s still not good enough, he’s feeling, and he’s taking that out on me. I’m someone that’s kind of pushed past the expectations because Ricochet was always deemed the golden boy of our era in the 2010s and that era, and I was kind of just [a] floating fish until I found myself. So now, I found myself quicker than Ricochet found himself, but he also found himself because of me, so there’s a lot of dynamics being played here, and it’s just psychological warfare before we even get in the ring. If you’ve noticed, we’ve only been in the ring twice now since Dynamite, but there’s been psychological warfare for two months now, and it’s also something that people didn’t expect Ricochet to be on the microphone telling his story that way. So we’re bringing a lot of different elements and new elements to someone that you’ve seen for the past 10 years, but also seeing something new. Myself, you know me, I like the bear, I make it personal, I’m always gonna bring something new and something wild out of somebody, and I’m the vehicle of that for All Elite Wrestling. But I also make the show better in a way because of that. I’m like, ‘Okay, if you got here for some reason, you must be good. Now, it’s time for you to show it,'' Strickland said.
Click here to see what Strickland had to say about wanting to win the world title again.
Ricochet recently discussed joining AEW. Check out his comments here.
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