Swerve Strickland: I’ve Studied Two Decades Of Tape On Samoa Joe For Our Match At AEW Dynasty

Swerve Strickland is ready.

AEW Dynasty will feature the first crack at the AEW World Championship for Swerve Strickland as he takes on Samoa Joe in a singles match for the gold.

While discussing the match on AEW’s Unrestricted podcast, this is what Swerve had to say about his match with Joe and how he’s prepared for it both mentally, emotionally, and physically.

“For me, there’s a lot. I have a lot in the tank. There’s never been anybody like me in this industry for a long time, and I’ll say that proudly and truly and truthfully. I’m not like anything Joe has ever seen either. I’m one of the most unpredictable people. You don’t know what I’m capable of, you don’t know what i’m willing to take. There’s a lot of tape study that i have on Joe, two decades worth of it. I wonder how much he has on me, you know? That’s the advantages that you have of being unorthodox, that’s the advantage of being unpredictable and you kind of don’t know which way I’m coming from. As you can see from what we had this week, Joe still can’t stop me the way he thinks he can. Those are my advantages. My military background has always been an advantage of mine. Never give up, never quit is my ethos and Joe is really seeing those layers peel back a little more with the contract signing. He beat me with a chain and bloodied me and I still got up, and i still signed the contract because if I have to crawl through a hundred yards of barbed wire to get to the world championship, that’s what I have to do. A lot of people would be like, ‘Nah, I’ll wait for the next contender.’ Come through, get their opportunities, and come around the other way or will win a tournament to try and find a way to weasel in. Nope, this is the path, this is the brutality, this is what i have to go through. Alright, let’s dig deep and pull through. There’s a lot of people that run from that grind, I never have and I never will. I’m here for it. Joe is really realizing that week by week that I’m not just gonna lay down for him. He’s realizing every week that I hit harder every time I come back.”

Never give up, never quit is the motto Swerve will look to live by when he takes on Joe in the main event of AEW Dynasty for the AEW World Championship.

h/t from Fightful.

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