For TBS Champion Mercedes Mone, 2025 is about making more cash and profitable extra championships. For “The Rated R Celebrity” Adam Copeland, it is beginning out with the plan of dethroning AEW World Champion Jon Moxley, then doubtlessly claiming the AEW Trios Championships with FTR. Within the case of Swerve Strickland, nevertheless, there is just one title in his line of imaginative and prescient.
“The plans are to take Swerve again to the highest of the pulpit,” Prince Nana, the supervisor of Strickland, not too long ago advised “Okay&S WrestleFest.” “There isn’t any different plans, my buddy. If we’re different championship belts, that is like a step down. So proper now, we’re specializing in ensuring that Swerve continues to remain wholesome. He is been figuring out frequently consuming the best issues, going to the chiropractor, getting the remaining that he wants. And we’re in a scenario the place we will choose and select who we wish to wrestle, and who we really feel deserves to be within the ring with Swerve, as a result of it is not going to be a straightforward night time for anybody simply coming into the ring.”
Earlier than Strickland chases after his second AEW World Championship, Nana famous that they first must “lay down the legislation” in AEW, beginning with Ricochet, whom he calls a “bald-headed bozo.” In current weeks, Ricochet and Strickland have shared tense backstage encounters, with the latter notably referring to the previous by his actual title, Trevor. At AEW Worlds Finish, Strickland and Ricochet got here face-to-face once more as the previous world champion and Prince Nana enticed the gang to throw rest room paper at Ricochet following his Continental Traditional semifinals loss. In response, Ricochet stabbed Strickland within the head with scissors on “AEW Dynamite.”
Other than Ricochet, Nana additionally teased that Strickland has unfinished enterprise with The Harm Syndicate, whom he is feuded with for a number of weeks.
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