Swerve Strickland Praises AEW Talent & Crew For ‘Stepping Up’ Over Last Year

Swerve Strickland believes that the AEW team has “stepped up” behind the scenes over the past year. Strickland spoke with Gold Belt Media for an interview at San Diego Comic-Con that was released yesterday and during the conversation he spoke about his collaboration with Reebok, noting that it was all set up by AEW.

“Dude, that that was that wasn’t me at all,” Strickland said (per Fightful). “That was just an AEW thing like, I really feel like over the last year, All Elite Wrestling, the marketing department, the social team like everything has just stepped up so much tenfold not just not just in the ring, not just the product you see on TV, not just like the stories and the people, like the talent.”

He continued, “I feel like everybody behind the scenes from top to bottom, like the camera work, the production, like everybody stepped up so much. Like the last collab was the Young Bucks, they had the pumps and everything. They were like, okay, how do we take it up another notch? They were like, we’re gonna use Swerve. We’re gonna use you and we’re gonna link with AI (Allen Iverson). The answers was already like a thing. They actually let me pick one.”

Strickland is set to challenge Kazuchika Okada for the AEW Unified Championship at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door this coming weekend.