Prior to Sunday’s AEW All In 2024 pay-per-view event, former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland made an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show” to discuss his famous match with AR Fox in Lucha Underground back in 2016.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the though process for the match: “First, we were like, ‘Do we have enough? I don’t know if we have enough. I think we have enough.’ We’re at the point of like, okay, this is Ultima Lucha. There’s been some crazy matches, the bar is already high enough. What do we do to not only raise it, what do we do to etch our name in it where people, they can’t copy this because it’s us.”
On how no one could copy the match’s energy: “There’s no way you can copy this feeling and this energy. We’re just coming up with concepts just like, this only works if Fox is in this position, this only works if Killshot is in this position and I think that’s what clenches that match so close to us and why the fans are attached to it. Even years later, they still talk about it because it’s like, man, those guys, it had to be them. There’s no other way, it almost feels like Frieza fighting Goku on Planet Nanik. There’s no other fight that can happen to blow up that planet because it had to be them. It had to be those two and that’s what the mindset of it was. If you see these moments in a match and you take the characters out and just have a silhouette, you know that was Kill Shot, you know that was Fox.”
During a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry expressed his desire to see Nigel McGuinness face off against his rival, Bryan Danielson.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Nigel McGuinness returning to the ring: “If you don’t bring Nigel back as a wrestler, I’m gonna have a problem. He’s gotta wrestle now.”
On wanting to see McGuinness target Bryan Danielson to Christian Cage’s benefit: “I would have Nigel go to the #1 Contender and tell them ‘Hey, I don’t normally do this but I want to skip the line … Just know that when I get done with him, he’s gonna be damaged goods.’”
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