Swerve Strickland Names His Five Favorite Wrestlers Of All Time Including Shawn Michaels, Shingo Takagi And More

Swerve Strickland names his five favorite wrestlers of all time, including Shawn Michaels and more.

For many professional wrestlers, they have a list of talent that inspired them and that they believe are the top talents in wrestling history. For Swerve, his top five is varied across continents and promotions.

While speaking to Baller Talk in a new interview, Swerve Strickland was asked to name his five favorite wrestlers of all time.

“Man, Shingo Takagi is one of them. He’s very underrated for Japanese culture. He’s incredible. Then I will go, honestly, Shawn Michaels is up there. Learning from him in WWE, that put him on a whole other playing field for me. Edge, Adam Copeland. Phenomenal. Like, incredible. Rey Mysterio. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Incredible, and (Chris) Jericho. Jericho is my guy. Yes, sir. Jericho is my guy. We did music together as well. Got to open up for him and his band Fozzy. You know, those guys are, like, yeah. So, like, all these guys are- well, most of them are very much crossover, cross-cultural guys/talents in a lot of ways, like Jericho music and then acting, same (for) Edge.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Swerve spoke about Tony Khan being a ‘player’s booker’. You can read more about that here.

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