Matt Hardy Says He Is Proud Of Swerve Strickland After AEW World Title Win

Matt Hardy comments on Swerve Strickland becoming AEW World Champion at AEW Dynasty.

Matt Hardy comments on Swerve Strickland’s big win.

At AEW Dynasty last weekend, Swerve Strickland and Samoa Joe met in the main event with the AEW World Title on the line. Swerve was able to knock off Joe to become the first black AEW World Champion.

While speaking on the latest episode of The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy, Hardy commented on Strickland’s big title win.

“Very happy for him, man. I like him a lot as a performer and a person, so I was very happy that he was able to get this match. It is now official and he is the AEW World Champion, I’m just proud of him man. I think it’s also something that is very proud for the culture. Him being a black champion, it’s very inspirational for black people in wrestling, so i think it’s very good on that front. I thought it was solid, I thought it was a very solid match. I thought it was a great decision to make Samoa Joe the champ in the meantime because we kind of quickly came to an end as far as MJF’s reign went.  Samoa Joe becoming the champ following MJF, I wanna give Samoa Joe his flowers because he was a hell of a champion during that time: he was very believable, he was very badass, and I think the fact that we got to this point and we had the buildup with him and Swerve, and Swerve knocked off Samoa Joe, who did seem like a final boss in so many ways, a real big bad Samoan badass. I’m very happy that Swerve got that strong win over him and once again, I give Swerve and Joe their flowers.”

Strickland is scheduled to appear on tonight’s edition of AEW Collision, where he will be interviewed on the show. 

Meanwhile, Matt Hardy made his return to TNA recently. You can read more about that here.