Swerve Strickland On Making AEW History, Hangman Page Feud, Brutal Matches, ALL IN, Sting, Bryan Danielson

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Swerve Strickland (@swerveconfident) is a professional wrestler currently signed to AEW. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Houston, TX to discuss becoming the first black AEW World Champion, levelling up in AEW, wrestling Sting at All In 2023 and Bryan Danielson the year after, his brutal matches with Adam Page, the needle spot in his steel cage match, why he re-signed with AEW, and more!

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0:00.0	Chris Van Bleed.
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	And bleed.
0:10.0	And it's inside with Chris Dan Beat.
0:19.0	You're looking bigger. Are you bigger?
0:21.0	I am definitely bigger.
0:22.5	And it's like miserable.
0:24.4	Maintaining it.
0:25.0	What do you mean?
0:25.7	Maintaining it.
0:26.8	Because like there's times where I'm like in bed and I'm like, I got to get one more something.
0:33.5	And you have to get the calories.
0:35.2	Yeah.
0:35.7	Because like I remember because Appleby is my go-to.
0:39.7	I got like, oh, this is 11, 45, 12.
0:42.2	Most places are closing down.
0:43.9	So I just like, let me order just like a salmon and asparagus and rice.
0:48.5	And it gets there.
0:49.2	And I'm like, I don't even have the energy to like use a fork.
0:52.4	I'm just picking at it with my hands to my mouth and like in bed just feeling like,
0:57.4	are you trying to hit a certain calorie number per day?
1:03.5	It's more like just eating whatever's in sight.
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