Swerve Strickland recently spoke with DAZN to discuss a variety of topics, including his current push in AEW and when he felt the Mogul Embassy began to gain momentum.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On when he and the Mogul Embassy began to gain momentum: “I feel like it was honestly — we were always being put in a good place. We were placed on the show a bunch of different ways, but I feel like after the promo with me and Hangman is where everything just, like, ‘Okay. We gotta…’ Boom. It was like a whirlwind. We gotta take this and fly with it now. And as for me, because I’ve always been delivering for a long time now, but then it was just like seeing me in a different light. That’s all it was. AEW has a ton of talent that go out there and perform, but something about my aura was just different. After being put in the coffin by Sting [at AEW All In], that aura — that changed something about Swerve coming out of it.”
On how his music has helped him as a wrestling performer: “Making music has helped my speech and my patterns and my cadences with my promos and so much more. It’s helped with some of those little quips that I come up with, those little bars … some people say when I did the ‘What’s a farmer to a mogul? What’s a cowboy to an outlaw? What’s a buckshot to a Killshot?’, those are kind of like battle lines, bars, battle rap bars. … That’s kind of helped, ‘How do I end this with a good [line]?’
“Music has helped me with my look, it’s helped me with my persona, it’s helped me with my walk to the ring. I try to make it feel like that artist that’s finally here on stage, as soon as he gets that microphone, it’s going to be ‘Damn, dropping bars.’ That’s what the entrance feels like. You’re anticipating that first song that he’s about to drop, or when he walks on the stage. The music and my wrestling has become so parallel with one another.”
In other news, Silas Young was a recent guest on the “Developmentally Speaking” podcast to discuss Ring of Honor shutting down in 2021 prior to being bought by AEW President Tony Khan. He said,
“I think most guys in the wrestling business understand. This is our life. I was lucky enough to be with Ring of Honor for almost 9 years… Then we started doing tapings and started feeling really good [after the pandmic] … then all of a sudden, we get told at the end of 2021 ‘at the end of the year, it’s done.’ It’s kinda’ a kick in the balls.”
