Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay have created magic together within the ring, and plainly their chemistry contained in the squared circle is all the way down to the respect they’ve for one another, which was evident in Strickland’s effusive praise of Ospreay.
Ospreay recently returned to AEW television on the Revolution pay-per-view after a protracted layoff on account of serious neck injuries. Strickland said in an interview with “WhatCulture Wrestling” that he kept tabs on Ospreay’s progress and in addition spoke passionately concerning the friendship he has with him.
“I used to be maintaining with him like every step of the best way, the last couple of months. I’ve seen him come through time and time again. But once more, it is often like, it felt like he was never left in my mind because each time I see him, it’s like right back to where we were like at All In in Texas,” he began. “He’s someone I care deeply about, so far as like greater than just knowledgeable wrestler, but as a friend and like a younger brother and he looks as much as me the identical way. I knew after I seen him when he was like 18 years old within the UK, he was going to take over the world, and it sucks that a possible like career-altering injury could have, you recognize, halted all that momentum.”
Strickland credited Ospreay’s discipline and hard-working nature for his swift return to the ring, noting how the British star pushed hard to return ahead of schedule.
“But he’s such a freak of nature of an athlete and a tough employee and so disciplined that I knew that it would not — he was going to return back stronger, faster, and like really, really pushed the recovery time ahead. Really pushed forward and that is only a matter of, like, that shows you the way you recognize special of a performer he really is.”
Ospreay, on his return to AEW, attacked Jon Moxley and the Death Riders after Moxley had retained the AEW Continental Championship against Konosuke Takeshita.