Shane "Swerve" Strickland recently appeared as a guest on the DAZN Wrestling YouTube channel for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, The Mogul Embassy leader spoke at length about Adam Copeland getting a whole new fresh coat of paint on his career now that he is working with a new roster in a free environment in AEW, as well as his primary objective being to end his legendary career with his best friend of 40+ years, Christian Cage.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On his excitement at the prospect of seeing Adam Copeland work with an entirely new roster and an entirely new and free environment: "Lineage. That’s a man who’s been a legend in the game for like 27 years, and has never been anywhere else. This is his first time being on another television product in 27 years. It’s the first time seeing him mix it up with new fresh blood, new fresh talent in another new, fresh company. It’s been four years that AEW has been around, but it’s still a new, fresh company. That’s intriguing in itself. The knowledge that he’s going to bring, the presence, the persona, and we’re anticipating seeing something different and new that we haven’t been seeing from him. There’s a lot of creative freedom that comes with that too, we’re getting to see Adam Copeland just flush out and go wild, not be contained or locked in on certain things."
On Copeland's primary goal in signing with AEW being to end his legendary career with his best friend of 40+ years, Christian Cage: "You’re really getting to see him be fluid and free with his career at the tail end, saying this is where he wanted to end his career with Christian, and Christian is on a big resurgence in his career with what he’s doing right now. You’re seeing a hungry, creative free guy in Adam Copeland, a legend, going up against a resurged, better than he’s ever been character, evil, maniacal, turtle neck wearing TNT Champion in Christian. You’re seeing elements of an eighteen year old Nick Wayne, you have Darby Allin & Sting involved, you have Luchasaurus involved. There’s a lot of different webs of storytelling, that right there should sell everything."
Check out the complete interview with Shane "Swerve" Strickland from the DAZN Wrestling YouTube channel via the video embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
