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Building the Perfect Wrestler. Plus, Swerve Strickland Discusses His Evolution at AEW Four Years Later, and More!

Building the Perfect Wrestler. Plus, Swerve Strickland Discusses His Evolution at AEW Four Years Later, and More!
Swerve Strickland's Evolution at AEW
Swerve Strickland's Evolution
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Hosts

David ShoemakerBen CruzBrian H. Waters

About the episode

COLD OPEN QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Five years ago this week was AEW’s exploding barbed wire death match. If WrestleMania had that match, who would you want to see in it (0:30)?

David and Brian open up the mailbag this week, respond to a few questions from the humanoids, and recap highlights from WWE Raw. Then Ben speaks with AEW superstar Swerve Strickland.

Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X.

Hosts: David Shoemaker, Brian H. Waters, and Ben Cruz
Guest: Swerve Strickland
Producer: Brian H. Waters

Summary

  • 3:00

    Build a wrestler by picking from the legends’ in-ring skills, mic skills, physical look, and signature moves

  • 8:40

    Brian’s perfect wrestler in MyRISE mode in WWE 2K26

  • 20:33

    Is CM Punk working heel right now?

  • 50:10

    Whether or not David was one of the masked men on Raw

  • 52:07

    Logan Paul’s WrestleMania and whether or not Tom Brady was involved

  • 56:40

    Oba Femi’s dominant win over Rusev

  • 1:31:20

    Cody Rhodes regains the Undisputed WWE Championship, and fans are buying bots to dislike the YouTube video

  • 1:38:35

    The total number of matches Swerve Strickland has had in his career

  • 1:40:39

    Looking back at Swerve’s AEW debut four years ago

  • 1:46:23

    How Swerve’s evolved and become physically bigger since his debut

  • 1:49:34

    Reactions to Kaz’s description of Swerve’s personality

  • 1:52:30

    Previewing Swerve’s match with Brody King at AEW Revolution

  • 1:57:24

    Swerve’s viral entrance with Prince Nana