One half of the AEW Tag Team Champions comments on his former faction returning to the WWE.
Hit Row returned to WWE just a short few weeks ago and have been involved in a storyline with Maximum Male Models since. They returned missing an important member however, leading to a lot of discourse amongst fans over Swerve Strickland wanting to re-join his former faction.
Speaking to Will Washington, Phil Lindsey, and Righteous Reg of Grapsody, Strickland gave his thoughts on Hit Row returning to WWE without him.
“I’m happy for those guys and I’m happy they got their second chance, I really am. Some people were like, ‘Are you upset about this? They’re back.’ Good, they deserve to be on TV,” he stated. “Now, this is their chance to be them and do what they do or however they want to do. There were times when I would discuss things and they wanted to do it this way, and I was like, ‘Okay, let’s try to mesh this together.’ It was a lot of teamwork and effort and family-type vibes to put these promos together. I don’t think I brought them up to the main roster, I think we did it together. A lot of people with these comments are trying to separate us and do the dividing thing. No, you’re not going to divide me from my friends. You’re not going to divide me from people that I was really grinding with at the PC [Performance Center] and every week on TV, trying to do something really special and being, literally, probably one of the most creative people in the entire PC because nobody was telling us what to do. We were literally coming up with it ourselves. We did that together to get to the main roster.”
Swerve Strickland to Grapsody
Strickland is scheduled to defend his AEW Tag titles with Keith Lee at AEW All Out this weekend.
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