Strickland gives Rhodes his props.
Swerve Strickland is in the midst of his third year under contract to All Elite Wrestling. In those several years, he’s gone on to capture the company’s World Championship.
He is set to challenge for the belt again as he earned the opportunity to do so at the 2025 Revolution pay-per-view. Prior to that event, Strickland sat down with Bootleg Kev for an interview.
As the conversation was moving along, Strickland mentioned that Dustin Rhodes has been the person/producer behind a lot of his great matches in AEW.
It’s brutal (Strickland said about using cinder blocks in matches). That’s why I’m the only one that uses it. I’m the only one stupid enough to actually do it.
No (I don’t have to talk to Tony Khan too much about it). I told him, ‘Aye Tony, we’re using cinder block.’ ‘Okay.’ If anything, I had Dustin Rhodes as producer on it and he was like, he was worried about the staples. He’s like, ‘Can we just get that cleared? I don’t wanna — you know?’
Shoutout to Dustin in general. He’s been the guy behind a lot of my great matches. He doesn’t tell me what to do but he suggests things and where they should go and he always puts a perspective on where I’m like, ‘Ouuu! Now you got me really thinking,’ and then I’m like, ‘How would you do it?’ And he’s like, ‘Well, I would go this way with it.’ But, he never tells me what to do. He never lets the performer… You don’t tell the rapper how to rap. This is my perspective. You guide them.
The reigning AEW World Champion is Jon Moxley. The next pay-per-view on the docket for AEW is Dynasty on April 6th from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Bootleg Kev with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
