Swerve Strickland addresses the syringe spot from AEW All Out 2024
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Swerve Strickland discussed the syringe spot from his “lights out” steel cage match with “Hangman” Adam Page at AEW All Out 2024. Here are the highlights…
What made you think you could do the syringe spot: “It was just something that I don’t think has been seen on American soil, television-wise, in a major promotion like that in a while, because it’s something that’s like, why would you do that? Why would anybody do that? Good, that’s why I’m doing it.”
People have a fear of just seeing needles: “That’s the point. If you’re sitting at home, you’re already getting uneasy, which we have so many little, small things that make people uneasy. I knew a syringe would make people feel uneasy. [It went through your cheek] Yeah, all the way through. I think I still have the needle.”
It got a lot of reaction online: “[People said] ‘That’s dumb.’ ‘Why would you do that?’ Well you’re talking about it, it’s the moment, and I wouldn’t do that with anybody else. Right there, unsanctioned cage with Hangman, like, somebody that, like, I was just already depleted because I got power bombed on a cinder block right before that. So I’m like, it’s just punishment. We’ve already took it so far. He already burned down my house. Where else further do you go with someone that you hate? And it was just like he hates me that much to just do something like that. That came out of his boot, he had that. So that was something he just wanted to just punish me with.”