Swerve Strickland Says It ‘Blows His Mind’ That Bryan Danielson Considers Their Match His Favorite Of All Time

Swerve Strickland talks his match with Bryan Danielson at AEW All In 2024.

At All In 2024, Danielson would face off with Strickland at Wembley Stadium for the AEW World Championship, with Danielson coming away with the victory in front of his family. Danielson has since noted that the match is his favorite of all time and for Swerve, it’s blown him away to learn this fact.

While speaking to Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Swerve Strickland was asked about Danielson citing the match as his favorite of all time, noting that it ‘blows his mind’ that to even be considered.

“Which always blows my mind to even being considered, even in a top five or 10 or 15 of Bryan Danielson’s matches. After what he did with Will [Ospreay], after what he did with Kenny [Omega], and rest in peace, after what he did it with Bray [Wyatt]. After what he did with so many greats, Orton and Triple H and Batista, then over here, this it blows my mind. But once again, telling moments and making stories and playing the role that I need to play to get the most out of it. I always like to go into any match like, What elements do I have to play with that can make this match not better, but just different from those other great matches that I named, and I had Brie Bella sitting right there with the kids, that was the key element to the match, was the fact that he wanted to wrestle in front of his kids, and he never got to do it. So I was like, I get the honor of being with the guy to face off and take advantage of that. But that’s where the story elements of Swerve the character always uses family against the opponent. I always pick at the heart of the opponent. That’s what took Hangman down, playing with his child. They know the elements of teasing him with that. I beat Darby because of Nick Wayne. I’ve played with that. I played mind games with The Acclaimed with Billy Gunn. Always tug at the heartstrings, which is something that Shawn Michaels told me. So I tug on the heartstrings of Bryan Danielson’s family being there, but Bryan used it as a strength, as his power, and it turned against me. So that’s what actually fired him up and got him to turn it back against me. I’m the only one that’s been able to actually tell and carry that story all the way through that whole year.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Swerve spoke about his belief that not being as well-known prior to AEW benefitted him. You can read more about that here.