Swerve Strickland: Even I Don’t Know What Me Evolving Looks Like

Swerve Strickland says that even he doesn’t know what evolving looks like for him, noting that talent need to live in the moment.

Strickland has been a major part of All Elite Wrestling for several years now and is a former AEW World Champion. At present, he is currently set to meet Will Ospreay in the finals of the Owen Hart Cup at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.

While speaking to the Battleground podcast in a new interview, Swerve Strickland was asked what the next evolution of himself looks like.

“I don’t even know that. Even I don’t know. It’s something that I’m always creating. It’s an ever-flowing, ever-evolving feeling and progression. You never know what the progression is until you’re in it. Once again, that’s still that knowing feeling like, ‘all right, I know the move here.’ But at the same time, you don’t plan too much ahead. If you over plan things, that’s where you start doubting. You have to constantly tweak things and constantly mess with something that’s an organic feel. You don’t want that too much. A lot of things, I have to let Swerve just be Swerve. I let things play out. Let things organically feel how they feel, and the fans feel that. The fans understand and they understand and speak on it. They speak on when- ‘like, man, I felt that. Like, I don’t know. There’s something special about this moment that I can’t put my finger on. There’s something special about this match, this person, this interaction, these two, or these three, these four in the ring together. I feel like we’re witnessing something.’ It’s always in the past tense that you realize you saw and noticed that was the moment. That was something special. But as a performer, you just got to live in it. You got to make sure you just sit in that moment and take, like, the time has to take a little bit slower then everybody else does because everybody’s like kind of rushed and get to the next thing. You got to sit in that moment and understand, and like you literally weave and play with all those elements and things and really understand them and like use them, make that organic, and then it becomes you in a way.”

Ahead of Daniel Garcia’s match with Strickland on this coming Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite, Marina Shafir and Garcia had words for the former world champion. You can read more about that here.

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