Rich Swann recently spoke with the folks from Sportskeeda to promote the IMPACT Wrestling Rebellion 2021 pay-per-view this evening at Skyway Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
During the interview, the IMPACT World Champion spoke about a number of topics, including a dream opponent from AEW, tonight's Rebellion pay-per-view and more.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview.
On being used to being the underdog: “You know, that’s funny because it’s always been, my whole career, I’ve always been the underdog. I’ve been always been the man that people have said, ‘Oh he’s not going to get to this level. Oh, he is only this certain style of person, this certain style of athlete. He can only be pigeon-holed into being this certain style of wrestler.’ And I’ve always gone out and I’ve proved the detractors wrong. I went out and said ‘Hey, you don’t think I can do it? Well guess what? I can.”
On proving critics wrong in the past, and how he’ll do it again at Rebellion: “I proved it when I became the IMPACT World Champion against Eric Young after fighting retirement. I beat Moose after everybody doubted me on the size difference, a modern-day David versus Goliath, and I came out the IMPACT Unified World Champion, adding the TNA World Championship to my collection. I will say right now, if the doubters strongly doubt me, they will see something that they are very used to, and that’s Rich Swann overcoming adversity and holding up the AEW World Championship.”
On Darby Allin from AEW being a dream opponent: “There’s so many talents in AEW that I would just love to get my hands on, but the first person that I would definitely challenge, and that I would think would be such an amazing match, just because of the styles, the clash of styles, would have to be none other than Darby Allin, somebody who I think is a daredevil, a go-getter and has nothing but heart and determination, just like myself. We may not have the same wrestling styles, but we have the same heart, I can see that. We have the same dedication, and to display that for the fans, I think it’d be awesome.”
Check out the complete interview below, or at YouTube.com. H/T to Mandatory.com for transcribing the above quotes.
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