Swerve Strickland wants to see more black wrestling stories in Hollywood.
Since signing with All Elite Wrestling, Swerve Strickland has made his fair share of history in the promotion, including becoming the first black AEW World Champion at AEW Dynasty 2024. With that in mind, Strickland would like to see more stories about the first black wrestling world champions in Hollywood.
While speaking to Women's Wrestling Talk at the premiere for Queen Of The Ring earlier this year, Swerve was asked what stories in wrestling history he would like to see on the big screen.
"I would like to see more of the first black wrestling world champions and stories like that. I would like to see more stories of just truly the struggles of those things too. Bring back more stories in the mainstream and the big screen of seeing, like, the territory eras and things like that. We see little pieces of it and glimpses and it's talked about, like in the Iron Claw and things like that, mentioning the territories, but I still don't think we've educated the people on, like, what that truly was. So I think I would like to see more, like, tapping into that a little bit more, just for the mainstream."
Elsewhere in the same interview, Swerve spoke about what actor he would want to play him in a movie. You can read more about that here.
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