Swerve Strickland took his WWE release and turned it into a positive for himself and his career.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Swerve Strickland recently sat down with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated. When asked about his WWE release, Strickland said it wasn’t easy to deal with, but he took a few days to absorb it and went back to work.
“I thought I was on top of the world–then, twenty-four later, I wasn’t,” Swerve Strickland said. “I had to tell my family that. That wasn’t easy. I needed time so I was not angry at myself or embarrassed, which I was for a 48-hour spell. I had to give myself a couple days to absorb it, feel it, understand it–see all the different corners and dimensions. Then I got to work.”
“Big Pressure” doesn’t happen without his WWE release
Swerve turned a negative into a positive by reconnecting with his contacts and through his release was able to record “Big Pressure” [Strickland’s AEW theme]. Strickland stated that without his WWE release, he would have never had the opportunity to make that song.
“I’ve always been able to reflect the negative energy back into positives,” Swerve Strickland said. “After the release, I looked for new windows to open. I flew to Los Angeles and spent 14 days there, and I reconnected with contacts.
“I had the time to get on the ground and meet people. That’s where I met [artist] Flash Garments, and we got in the studio, and we made ‘Big Pressure’. Without the WWE release, I don’t make ‘Big Pressure’. I don’t go to the Grammys. I don’t meet Prophet, an incredible producer, I don’t have this epiphany to create Mogul. That’s when all of that was created.”
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