Swerve Strickland spent time in the Lucha Underground promotion, using the Killshot ring name from 2015-2018.
While speaking on a recent edition of the “WrestleChat” podcast, the AEW World Heavyweight Champion discussed whether the concept would work in today’s wrestling world. He said,
“Right now, I don’t think so because there’s always people pulling something apart because it really grows and blossoms into its full potential. Even All Elite Wrestling, it’s still blossoming into its full potential, it hasn’t even reached that yet and people are already trying to pull certain things apart. To create something new in the atmosphere that we’re in when people want to argue like attendance records, ratings, booking, and argue this and all of these things rather than just sit and watch and enjoy a product and certain things, I think it’s really tough. Even Lucha Underground for what it was never fully blossomed into its full potential either. So, now, in today’s climate, it’s really hard for anything new to really blossom.”
