AEW star Swerve Strickland has revealed that his highly-rated match against AR Fox in Lucha Underground ultimately led to him being signed by WWE.
Strickland was a very important a part of the now-defunct Lucha Underground program, where he went by the name Killshot. During a recent appearance on “Vlad TV,” the previous AEW World Champion believes that his Hell Of War match with Fox — referred to as Dante Fox in Lucha Underground — caught the eyeballs of many within the business, including WWE.
“I feel so [the match helped him get signed by WWE]. Yeah, it was similar to — and that was one in every of the things — like, ‘Get your name talked about as much as you may.’ And we went on the market on a mission to only show that there isn’t any way you may miss this. There isn’t any way, like, anybody, anywhere, cannot discuss this. Or in the event you discuss it, everybody knows exactly which match you are talking about. ‘Oh, that match? Yeah, yeah,”‘ said Strickland. “And it was just one in every of the mixed blends of athleticism, lucha, actual storytelling, [and] brutality. Like, it mixed the whole lot together, and it showcased more of… not only, like, crash wrestling, but actual, like, story arcing with characters and meaning behind it.”
Strickland discussed how his psychology in wrestling involves making the bad guy more powerful and smarter than the nice guy, comparing it to how Spider-Man’s nemeses are all the time stronger and wiser than him. He also revealed that the match was filmed in 2016, but released a yr later.
The AEW star joined WWE in 2019 and had a two-year run with the promotion before joining AEW, where he has renewed his rivalry with Fox. Strickland and Fox had teamed and fought against one another in quite a few promotions before the previous joined WWE, which incorporates promotions like CZW and EVOLVE.
