AEW wrestler Swerve Strickland was a recent guest on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast to discuss a variety of topics, including how he developed his wrestling style and the advice he received from Terry Taylor while working in WWE NXT.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On developing his style early on: “It was trying all those different things like brawling, trying flying, trying lucha, trying British, trying all these grappling things, and compiling all those things together. I was like, ‘Okay, I got those down, now what works best for me?’”
On talking with Terry Taylor about evolving his skillset: “He said something along the lines of like, ‘How do you make people feel about what you’re doing in the ring?’ It’s not about the competitor; it’s about the person.’ Right there, it opened another side of my brain that I haven’t walked through yet, that I haven’t discovered. I thought I was in an apartment this whole time; now I’m in a condominium with multiple floors.”
