Right now we speak to two world champions. We talk to AEW world champions swerve Strickland and

NXT world champion trick Williams.

This is the busted open podcast.

World Champion on many platforms, but he's got the gold to prove it.

And that is the one and only Swerve Strickland Swerve, how you man I'm good I'm happy I'm blessed I'm healthy

man that's awesome that healthy part yeah as a champion and like doing as much as I'm doing in the ring, so probably the best you can ask for.

You know, you see, like especially coming off of double or nothing.

We got some banged up superstars on the roster, you know, so like I can only feel blessed and happy to be in the position I am right now.

Swerve on a personal level, how are you enjoying your first run as a ew world heavyweight champion? This is probably the

most important time of my career is not just like for me and the accomplishment of

you know like making history in a W but just for

like the influence outside of it is like being the first and being the moment where

like people are like like really paying so much more attention, got the kind of like the magnifying glass

on you a little bit harder because of the time and the history and all the important

surround surrounding the moment of like winning a dynasty and

stuff like that now following week by week and how how I'm moving, how I'm

being presented, how I'm performing, everything is just like amplified so much more so this is probably the most important time than say like maybe if I've become the fourth four time champion you know the first one people always going to come back to the first one no matter what so this is the most

important time so I'm moving very calculated I'm moving very cautiously and I'm

performing the very cautiously as well.

Swerve that you consider yourself to be an artist.

I heard you say that before, not just in the sense of being a musician and the fashion and all of the stuff like that but you seem to be an artist in the ring do you view

yourself as being an artist in the ring?

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