Top AEW star Swerve Strickland appeared on O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson’s No-Contest Wrestling to talk about a number of topics, including how he started to use the staple gun in his matches.
Strickland said, “The concept I came up with, like, I’d say back in MLW, it’s an instrument used to punish. Most people it works, one staple’s enough for a lot of people. Me, I’ve been around the block, I can walk through them now. But it’s also like one of those things — it’s like you see this item, it’s an everyday item, something that would be around the area of a ring. So I don’t like bring out a cactus from under the ring, I’m like, ‘Why would that be there?’ No, it’s something that you go, ‘Oh, yeah, industrial staple [gun] would be around the ring. It’s a very logical item.”
You can check out Strickland’s comments in the video below.
