AEW: Swerve Strickland on His AEW World Title Reign Goal, Kyle O’Reilly on His Goals for AEW Career, New Matches for 4/27 Collision & Rampage & 5/1 Dynamite Shows

Apr 25, 2024

Swerve Strickland Comments on His Goal for His AEW World Title Reign

A recent episode of the One Nation Radio podcast featured Swerve Strickland as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Strickland’s thoughts about his goal for his AEW World Championship reign and wanting to make it feel different from past champions.

“Crossover’s always one of the very beneficial tools, but we don’t want to overexpose that where it becomes a fact of you’re expecting it. You kind of want to not expect it for it to be a really useful tool. So those things, I kinda gotta keep hush-hush because that’s what’s gonna make the title reign feel a little different than the other ones. That’s a high bar that’s already been set by MJF and Moxley, three times, Kenny, Jericho, Hangman, all those guys set a really high bar with this thing. So it’s up to me to kind of find a new way to twist it and make it my own in such a unique way. But some of those activations and those little things are gonna be kept a little hush-hush, on the low, so you’re gonna have to tune in and watch. That’s the beauty of why Swerve is where he is because you can expect it, but you don’t know.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Kyle O’Reilly Comments on His Goals for His AEW Career

Fightful held a recent interview with Kyle O’Reilly. One of the topics discussed included O’Reilly’s thoughts about his current goals for his career in AEW.

“I really just don’t want to take for granted the opportunity to wrestle in a mainstream company and even have matches again. That’s something I was never really sure if it was going to happen. The fact that I get to be back on the road and earning my living and get to wrestle, the only thing I’ve ever really been good at or can at least make a living doing, that’s the most important thing. Big matches and championships, I’m sure they’ll come as long as I stay the course. I’m not going to get too ahead of myself. One match at a time. I feel like every time I have a big match coming up, the pressure builds. No matter what it is, whether it’s the match on Collision with Bryan Keith or if it’s on pay-per-view with Roderick Strong, I’m going to treat it the same and give the best performance I can every single time. By doing so, hopefully championships and big matches will present themselves.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

New Matches Announced for April 27th AEW Collision & Rampage Shows and May 1st AEW Dynamite Show

AEW recently announced several new matches for the card of this week’s AEW Collision and Rampage shows on April 27th at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida and next week’s AEW Dynamite show on May 1st at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.

In regards to Collision, this week’s show was confirmed to be starting at a later than usual start time of 8:30PM EST. The reason for the preemption is due to TNT’s commitments with the 2024 NBA Playoffs Game 3 of Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat on the network that night.

In regards to Collision’s card, two matches were announced for this Saturday’s show, which were:

AEW Unified World Trios Championship – Action Andretti & Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn)) (c)
Toni Storm vs. Anna Jay

Also announced for this Saturday’s Collision show was an interview segment involving Swerve Strickland which will be opening the show.

THIS SATURDAY
LIVE 3-Hours of #AEWCollision + #AEWRampage

The NEW #AEW World Champion @swerveconfident kicks off #AEW Collision with his FIRST Live Interview since #AEWDynasty, THIS Saturday, IMMEDIATELY following @nba coverage on TNT!

Live Coast to Coast following the NBA! pic.twitter.com/7HWI8wEw66
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 25, 2024

In regards to Rampage’s card, two matches were also announced for this Saturday’s special live show, which were:

Parking Lot Brawl match – Trent Beretta vs. Chuck Taylor
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Thunder Rosa

In regards to Dynamite’s card, one new match was announced for the card of next week’s show, which was:

FTW Championship – Katsuyori Shibata vs. Chris Jericho (c)

Also announced for next week’s Dynamite show was the official challenger for Swerve Strickland’s AEW World Championship for AEW Double or Nothing 2024 will be officially determined. Also announced was Kenny Omega making his first appearance on AEW since this past January.