Swerve Strickland on working with Triple H: “He was dodging me when I was coming up with creative questions”
While speaking to the Kings of the Ring podcast, Swerve Strickland commented on the formation of the Hit Row faction in WWE NXT…
“The birth of it was really interesting because they had their own thing going on when they were supposed to have WWE Evolve then. That got delayed for years. I didn’t expect it to take so long for Evolve to become a thing that was on Tubi.
They were supposed to be a product of the hit makers on Evolve at the time. And Triple H—me and him were just going back and forth. He was dodging me when I was coming up with creative questions and stuff.
And then finally, I think it was Stephanie McMahon that really told me, ‘He’s my favorite heel on the show.’ And then that’s where it was like, okay, now we really got to start putting some fire behind Swerve.
And then they were like, ‘Hey, I think we’re going to put this group behind you. How do you feel?’ I didn’t do groups at the time. I was independent, indie jumping from city to city, country to country. So running a group was just not my thing. I didn’t know how to.
But the group became more like them backing me. We became like a jelled group, like all four corners. The time was good. It was fine. I wish we had more time together with it, but you know, things happen.”