Swerve Strickland: Lucha Underground Had One Of The Most Competitive Rosters That You’ll See In Wrestling

Swerve Strickland talked about his time in Lucha Underground.

Under the name Killshot, Swerve Strickland’s time spent in Lucha Underground was around learning and competing with the very best in Lucha Libre wrestling who combined the world of wrestling and novelas.

While speaking to No-Contest Wrestling, this is what Strickland had to say about his time as Killshot and his thoughts on the roster that Lucha Underground had.

“It was a challenge,” Strickland said. “That’s one of the most competitive rosters that you’ll ever see in wrestling, and AEW is like that too in a lot of senses. But Lucha Underground was just filled with like the premier athletes from Mexico, from America, from Canada, from the UK, everybody was coming in, in a melting pot and we were trying to figure out ‘what can we create?’ Because now, the universe is endless.”

Strickland would find his way to All Elite Wrestling years later where he found the spark that he needed to become the first black AEW World Champion with a candidate for rivalry of the year with Hangman Page.

H/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.

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