AJ Francis On Swerve Strickland: Let’s Talk About What Actually Happened

AJ Francis comments on his issues with Swerve Strickland.

Earlier this year, Swerve Strickland was interviewed by Vlad TV. During the interview, Swerve would recall Hit Row (Swerve, AJ Francis, Ashante ‘Thee’ Adonis, and B-Fab) being let go from their WWE contracts in 2021. In his comments, he would apparently negatively refer to AJ Francis, or at the very least, Francis believed the reference was about him, leading to tension between the two men.

In a new interview with Ariel Helwani, AJ was asked about his issues with Swerve, with AJ maintaining that they were fine until Strickland’s interview with Vlad TV.

“When you have him here, ask him. Listen, just another perfect example. You will not find one interview of me bringing him up first. You won’t find one. That’s, like, to me- (You were cool, right?) Yeah, we was cool until a couple months ago, apparently. Like, we was cool a week before his interview came out. I saw him at Chris Bey. Shout out Chris Bey. I saw him at Chris Bey’s benefit show, and everything was cool. No problems. Everything was cool. Then the interview came out. I’m like, ‘oh, I’m just going to clear the record.’ I’m going to just say what actually happened. We’re not just going to talk in innuendos. Let’s talk about what actually happened, and I ain’t talked about him since. Unless somebody else bring him up. That’s just me. Oh, no. I mean, we haven’t talked. I mean, we don’t talk. Like, even when we were in Hit Row, there was the three of us and then he was part of that. You know what I’m saying? So, that’s why when we came back, we called ourselves the OG3 because we were Hit Row.”

This past weekend, Francis would compete at TNA Slammiversary. You can read more about that here.

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