Swerve Strickland returned to AEW on Saturday, following recuperation from his brutal metal cage match with Hangman Web page. The previous AEW World Champion stopped by the post-show media scrum to say that the feud took so much out of him.
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“It felt like an actual deep darkish second for the final month or so,” Strickland stated, saying that being again in his house state of Washington helped heal the damaged former AEW World Tag Crew Champion. “Nothing feels higher than getting again to your roots to reenergize you…I am nonetheless not 100% however I get a clear invoice of well being transferring ahead…Proper now, I feel quite a lot of issues have been settled [between Swerve and Hangman Page] however there is a small little minute piece that also hasn’t been settled,” Swerve stated. “He can have that unsanctioned victory over me, I’ve two legit victories over him.”
Swerve thinks that Web page, who misplaced to Jay White throughout the PPV, will flounder with out Strickland.
“During the last 12 months, I used to be the most effective factor to occur to Hangman Web page,” Swerve stated, noting Web page’s trajectory from the pre-show battle royal at All Out 2023 to the primary occasion of All Out 2024.
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Strickland is at present embroiled in a feud with former Harm Enterprise members MVP and Shelton Benjamin, who not too long ago arrived in AEW making an attempt to court docket Strickland away from his supervisor Prince Nana. The efforts have been to no avail, as Strickland made his loyalty clear on Saturday, standing by Nana within the Tacoma Dome.
