Swerve Strickland Would Put His Story With Hangman Adam Page Up Against Any Story In Wrestling History

Strickland holds the program with Hangman in high regard.

The story between Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page has spanned several years on AEW programming. Present day, the pair’s on-screen dynamic is cordial after Strickland played a role in Page regaining the AEW World Championship at All In Texas.

Strickland reflected on their history while sitting down with That Hashtag Show. He stated that he would put their story up against any story in wrestling history.

“I put our story against any story in wrestling history, honestly, because it’s just two men. There’s other elements that played into these things. There’s characters that came through… they were accessories to our story but, at the end of the day, when Hangman’s in the ring, you hear, ‘Who’s house? Swerve’s house’ chants. When Swerve’s in the ring, you hear ‘Cowboy sh*t’ chants. Anytime he passes by the locker room and sees Swerve Strickland or little elements of, like, me holding a chain… your brain goes right to that man, and that’s just a testament to our vulnerability. Our whole story was based on vulnerability. Well, even before that (Hangman burning Swerve’s house down), it was about me coming out of a coffin from Sting and it was about Hangman winning a Battle Royal at All Out in 2023. It was like, ‘Dude, what are you doing celebrating winning a charity Battle Royal in the pre-show? This whole company was built off of you. You’re a former world champion, and you’re settling with this? What’s going on here?’ Him coming from a low of like, literally being a first-round draft pick, high expectations and then getting that and then falling so low, and then coming right back up and then, negativity is kind of what inspired him and brought him back. Not necessarily positive influence. It was negative… and him being vulnerable to lay all these things out on the table and then me being vulnerable to just lay out all these things on the table. Some were real, some were fabricated. But that’s up for the audience to pick and choose and find out what it is. ‘I don’t know if that’s really a thing,’ and dive into that, and it’s just two men, two flawed men that end up having a lot more in common in the end than we think.”

Strickland is now in the AEW Unified Championship picture. He’ll be challenging Kazuchika Okada for the belt at Forbidden Door in London, England.

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