On a recent edition of his “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast, Matt Hardy lavished praise on fellow AEW wrestler Swerve Strickland, calling him a future world champion.
According to Hardy, Strickland has the potential to become a worthy AEW World Champion in the next couple of years.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Swerve Strickland: “Swerve is a guy that I would vouch for. I think he’s a guy that deserves to have a great spot in AEW and build around that guy, let him be one of the building blocks of the company. I think he’s got a great look, I think he has a great personality. He’s just a good guy overall. He’s very dependable. I think that’s a very important part. If you have someone that has some great talent, but then they are a headache behind the scenes or if they’re just a malcontent, or they’re not happy, that becomes problematic sometimes, if you try and put a lot of equity or make the guy into one of the building blocks of your company, but Swerve is a great guy through and through a good dude.”
On his chances of becoming World Champion: “Also, just the fact that he is black, that helps as well, because it’s very important now, especially in this day of equity and equality, that we have as many different faces and different-looking individuals that we can get the best opportunities, and he is a guy that’s totally deserving of it. Not even because of any other reason other than he’s a badass, kick-ass athlete, and a good human being. I think if he continues on this trajectory he’s currently on, I think within a year-and-a-half, there’s a great chance of him being the AEW World Champion.”
Strickland scored a major victory over former AEW World Champion Hangman Page earlier this month at AEW WrestleDream 2023.
