0:00

A lot of people don't understand, like how deep some of

0:03

my relationship go with some of these wrestlers, and

0:05

that's kind of cool. You don't know until you

0:07

actually listen to the interview, like

0:09

me and Osprey has been like brothers for like over ten years.

0:20

Ladies and gentlemen.

0:21

Are you Ready's

0:24

about to hit the fan?

0:25

Welcome to sanctioned

0:28

Thursdays in Wrestling

0:30

with Friday.

0:33

Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the show that you

0:35

asked for, you got and is run by y'all.

0:38

It is unsanctioned Thursdays. We appreciate

0:40

you guys for tuning in each and every week.

0:42

I like getting to do this extra show for you guys, and

0:45

it's just for y'all with us once again

0:47

as was on Wednesday. If you haven't listened

0:49

to Wednesday show, please do before you listen

0:51

to this one. Is the AEW World

0:54

Champion. He prophesied

0:56

it. It came true, mister Swerve Strickland.

0:58

Thanks for sticking around. How are you once again? Sir?

1:01

I'm great man. Get ready for this gym

1:03

session in a little bit.

1:04

By nice die for a couple of hours,

1:07

but I'm only going to get in there for

1:09

about an hour because I'm a little bit older than

1:11

you, but I'm going to hit the gym as well, and

1:13

all y'all should be hitting the gym. It's good for you.

1:15

You'll live longer and take good care of yourself,

1:17

especially when you start getting in your forties. It's important,

1:19

That's what I say.

1:20

I have a gym membership, but I don't know about

1:22

all that other stuff.

1:23

You know, now you gotta stay. I like

1:25

to drive by it and go.

1:26

You know, I'm a member there.

1:28

That's what I like to do. No, get lifted,

1:30

get lifted. All right, let's get right into

1:32

it. First things first. I wouldn't say I'm

1:35

a sneaker head, but I do

1:37

have a small collection

1:39

of really nice shoes that I wear

1:41

if I go out with my lady for dinner or

1:43

if I'm going to go to a premiere and they're

1:46

They're usually Jordan's or something unique

1:48

that looks like a sneaker.

1:49

Right.

1:50

I don't like wearing fancy like dress up

1:52

shoes. That's that I had to go wear those

1:54

in church, and I always hated dressing up for church

1:56

and corduroys and all that crap. So

1:59

I have a few pairs of shoes. You

2:02

have a shoe that is coming

2:04

out that I asked you off camera if I could have full

2:06

disclosure. I've already seen it and it

2:08

looks sick. You are

2:10

the very first wrestler to come out with their own

2:12

shoe. Unless I'm mistaken in my knowledge

2:15

of wrestling history. Are

2:18

you a sneakerhead? Where did this come from?

2:21

Hold on right there for one second.

2:22

Oh, he's a sneaker head because he's about to bring

2:25

in something.

2:26

Freddy's asking about the shoe itself.

2:29

I'll just give you the man who actually

2:32

designed him. Oh, snap from scratch right

2:34

here, garments right here, So I'll

2:36

let him explain everything.

2:38

What's going on?

2:38

Better, Welcome to the show. Man.

2:40

What's your name? Yeah, nice to meet you, man legend.

2:43

Nice to meet you too. Man. Tell me your name though, so I

2:45

get it right.

2:45

I'm flashed garments, I'm swears writing

2:48

man, and I did his theme song for Way

2:51

Together.

2:52

Yeah that's me.

2:56

Okay, So hold on hold. So you're doing music

2:58

and your and Jeff doing the I'm not a dance

3:00

now. First, let me ask you about the music

3:02

first. How did it make you feel the first

3:05

time you saw the entire audience doing the

3:07

dance surreal.

3:09

It was like a fake. Yeah, it seemed fake.

3:11

It seemed fake.

3:12

In reality, like because it just happened so

3:14

fast when everybody started engaging and being

3:16

a part of it.

3:16

It's like, Ine, that's why wrestling fans

3:19

are the best. They'll jump on something

3:21

that they like and they'll they'll run

3:23

with it.

3:23

I agree, Oh yeah, wrestling songs are iconic.

3:26

Man, They'll you can turn off the music

3:28

and they'll know every word within a week of the

3:31

song out.

3:31

Man there, and if it's good enough, they don't

3:34

care if they hate the wrestler they're in it. Like,

3:36

if it's good enough, they'll be like, I

3:38

hate this guy, and then they'll say the exact same

3:40

thing, and they're doing the dance.

3:41

They know the lyrics. You're like, wait a minute, let's talk shoes.

3:43

I was telling Swerve. I'm not as I wouldn't say

3:45

I'm a sneaker head. I'm not Jerry Ferrara, but

3:48

I do have some fancy sneakers that

3:50

kid's got a collection. I have some fancy

3:53

sneakers that I like that I wear when I take my wife

3:55

out or if I go to a premiere or something like that. Because

3:57

I don't like wearing dress shoes. Talk to me

3:59

about the origin of the first

4:02

shoe that a wrestler has ever come out

4:04

with in the history of professional wrestling.

4:06

Well, the origin of this shoe. It

4:08

all came from like so when we

4:11

first started talking about it was a while ago. It was like

4:13

turnbuckles, like the material

4:15

of like the green and stuff like

4:17

that. But then I was like, I wanted pieces

4:19

of me and him in it. And when I was designing

4:22

it, the little, small, little majority

4:24

of his shoe was all about Swerve and his style

4:27

of things and the colors he likes to wear and

4:29

his military background with this

4:31

type of material that's here, And then

4:34

you got the flashiness with my name Flask

4:36

Garments, with the gator esque

4:39

you know, vegan. You know, we got to make sure it's

4:41

vegan, but

4:43

yeah, we got the vegan and then we got the garment's

4:46

logo here, my logo, and then we got

4:48

Swerve's logo here. And Mash

4:50

was the guy who put it all together

4:52

and simplified my design. He's

4:55

the designer who put the whole thing together.

4:58

So mans is like a shoe, customized it, but

5:00

he ended up becoming making his own silhouette,

5:03

and then I reached out to him. He was like, it would be dope

5:05

if he did it together, and he was

5:07

I told him about Swerve, but he didn't know anything.

5:09

I told him about Swarth prior to this

5:11

even happening, and then he started

5:13

seeing him come up and he was like, Hey.

5:16

It will be a good time if you used to do it. Now.

5:18

Is this the first shoe you've designed or is

5:20

this something that you It's the first show I've ever get,

5:22

the first I ever deigned.

5:24

Yeah, yeah, like the three m pops. This

5:26

is just the beginning though.

5:27

This is just like phase one, and it's just like

5:29

you know, when Michael Jordan did that first

5:32

one, Tinker Hatfield did that Jordan one. I

5:34

think this is the beginning of it because he when

5:36

he wrestled in it, that was like all new.

5:39

He wrestled in that. We didn't wear

5:41

testing.

5:41

Yeah, he wore tested and

5:44

one in them, which is crazy.

6:00

Flash. I asked you about the

6:02

music and the answer

6:04

was surreal. What is

6:06

it like to watch Swerve

6:08

Strickland hit his finisher the

6:11

Swerve stomp on Samoa Joe

6:13

in your shoes?

6:14

A dream?

6:16

So jealous?

6:17

I never get jealous I'm so jealous right

6:19

now. This is the first shoot you ever

6:21

designed, and this is a championship match

6:24

and the finisher is with your shoes. It's

6:26

not like you hit him with a backbreaker or something

6:28

like. It's all about the shoes. Man. That's

6:30

amazing to Yeah, I'm so freaking jealous

6:32

almost.

6:34

Because it's the moment. You know what a moment reminded

6:37

me of.

6:37

It reminded me when they were like pitching

6:39

the Michael Jordan' shoot, the first shoot when he jumped

6:41

from the finish line. Imagine how simple that

6:44

was to promote it, and you were like, Oh, I

6:46

want to be like Mike.

6:47

I want to be like this swear.

6:49

We's been like such an influence to the

6:51

kids and people trying to do things and him

6:53

being at first doing it, he ends up

6:55

doing that with his shoe. I'm like, that's

6:57

the dream, that's the dream man.

6:59

It makes me.

7:00

And what a visual you guys have now

7:02

to show that shoe off when you're ready to

7:04

bring it out, because you can literally show that in

7:07

slow motion of him flying off the top

7:09

rope and the shoes and it's

7:12

like a commercial without even being a commercial

7:14

because it actually happened, just like with Michael

7:16

Jordan and his shoes, like you were actually watching

7:18

him take flight. This is so I

7:21

did not think we were going to be talking about shoes

7:23

this long. This is so cool to me and

7:25

I'm so jealous and it's an absolute

7:27

pleasure to meet you flash Man.

7:29

It's a pleasure to meet you too. Man, this is a legendary

7:31

conversation. They're

7:34

gonna look back at this and I'm.

7:35

Like, whoa, Man, I'm jealous

7:37

of you. I don't know what you're talking about,

7:40

your legend.

7:41

Man. Well, thank you so much for being a part

7:43

of the show. Man. Yeah, we'll have to

7:45

have next time we have Swerve on. You gotta come back to Yeah,

7:47

we got so much.

7:48

You want to talk, We got new music, We got a lot of

7:50

stuff, man, Me and him and were taking

7:52

on the world together a lot of ways.

7:54

Best of luck to you, man, congratulations. Yeah.

7:57

I don't normally get jealous, but I'm way jealous

7:59

of your partner there.

8:00

Man.

8:02

Hey, man like that.

8:03

Man's like, like I said, solely but

8:05

surely changing my life one day at a time.

8:09

So you also mentioned music. Man, you're

8:11

not going to change up the Swerves song, are

8:13

you? Already. You can't. You can't change it up

8:15

yet one day it might have waited, but are

8:18

you We just we just got out of the studio

8:20

with bun Bee and getting the feature.

8:23

He just dropped the feature for the

8:26

big pressure swerve trill

8:28

next like a trill down

8:30

South Houston vibe to it and

8:33

with the legend Bumby himself. So

8:35

he's gonna hop on there like he

8:37

already hopped on it. The track's done. We just

8:40

mixing it, getting it done, and then we'll go on

8:42

figure out a plan to shoot this music video to

8:44

it, and that's then it's gonna

8:46

take it up a whole nother not.

8:48

Is there anything else that we haven't

8:51

touched on that you would like to talk about

8:53

before we thank you and say goodbye.

8:55

Is there anything that I that I slipped over that I shouldn't

8:57

have?

8:57

Oh?

8:58

No, man, this this Sore

9:00

City podcast right now just went up

9:02

like two hundred slots on iTunes Nice

9:04

Apple Podcasts. I think in the US

9:07

it went up two hundred slots and now was like

9:10

eighteen as of last week.

9:12

Since weekend, I've won the championship.

9:15

It went up two hundred slots and it's beating

9:17

out like Ryan Seacrest and MTV and

9:20

pH one. It's beating out a lot of those guys

9:22

for music interviews category. So

9:24

that's a major jump. And we just had Adam Copeland

9:26

on last week and actually

9:29

he's the man. We're filming this now.

9:32

We have the Osprey episode dropping actually,

9:34

so I'll be out by the time you hear this. Then

9:36

that's that's like a lot of people,

9:39

like a lot of people don't understand like how deep

9:41

some of my relationships go with some of these wrestlers.

9:43

And that's kind of cool. You don't know until

9:45

you actually listen to the interview. Like

9:47

me and Osprey has been like brothers for like over ten years.

9:50

That's been like a little brother than me. Yeah,

9:53

but like I met him when.

9:54

He was nineteen eighteen years old as the first time I wrestled

9:57

him. I got photos of him still I found on my

9:59

phone.

10:00

Of our first ever interaction and we're just two skinny

10:02

little kids in UK of this gymnasium

10:04

and he was.

10:05

Like a cocky, arrogant dude. That was like, I love

10:07

this kid. I love him. So we talk

10:10

about that on the episode.

10:11

The podcast is just bumping, so YouTube dot comback

10:13

slash Sworst City podcast like no

10:15

other podcasts out.

10:16

There like it. We're getting great reviews

10:18

from the fans. Thank you for supporting us for this long. Continue

10:21

to support us.

10:22

Motion Sickness with Myself and Flash Garments

10:24

coming out very soon, which will

10:26

have the remix to Big Pressure feature on Bugby

10:29

on that project. We're adding that to it, So

10:31

that's coming out soon, so y'all be able to download

10:33

it. Let's do it whatever you want to. And that's not just gonna

10:35

be a YouTube exclusive. Get being

10:37

shot next week. We got to Suit the music video. I

10:39

think we got up next, f them up, and

10:41

we got Motion Sickness. We

10:44

got so much going on. The

10:46

documentary series coming out from the whole

10:48

story of me becoming the first African

10:50

America aw World Champion, filmed by the Lucas

10:52

Brothers Academy.

10:53

Award brother Lucas Brothers, good

10:55

boys.

10:56

Great guys. So they've been around that.

10:58

They were there in Dynasty in Saint Louis, they've

11:00

been there at World's End, they've been there at Revolution,

11:03

They've been from a NonStop since Full Gear. So

11:06

we're still going. We still got a live story to

11:08

tell showing flashy side of things the hip

11:10

hop world merging with the rest of the world, showing

11:12

that some red carpets coming

11:14

up as a world champion.

11:15

All in is going to be very special.

11:17

When are we gonna get a Swerve video game?

11:19

You know, man, that's a big job. That's

11:22

a big job.

11:23

I'm trying to figure out what your video games are not like

11:26

going out of business right now.

11:27

I'm like, yous, Nope, can't use them. I claim no,

11:29

can't use them.

11:30

I'm like, oh god, man, So I'm like, who's still

11:32

alive right now? Like

11:34

Rockstar would be the perfect one. But that's really

11:37

like, that's like, yeah, that's up there.

11:39

But yeah, so there's a whole

11:41

lot going on and doubling. Nothing's coming up around

11:43

the corner of Vegas. May twenty six, go make sure you check

11:45

that out. And Dynamite Wednesday Night

11:47

said eight pm Eastern.

11:49

Time, May twenty six, I might actually

11:51

be in Vegas. Oh yeah, you

11:53

gotta shrill out, yo, I might actually be there.

11:55

If I'm there, I'm coming too. The

11:57

responsibilities of a champion, you

12:00

are more than capable of them. You have added a million

12:02

more responsibilities on top of the

12:04

ones of a champion already and your

12:06

shoulders are broad enough to carry it all. Man. I'm

12:09

so grateful to see you back

12:11

here on the show again. Thank you for

12:13

the promise that you made, and thank you for

12:15

keeping that promise when you said you'd be champ

12:18

and then became champ. I think you're a huge

12:20

role model for young kids watching

12:22

pro wrestling, and I think you're

12:24

an impressive for all us old farts

12:27

to watch wrestling. You're just an impressive individual.

12:29

Thank you.

12:30

Man.

12:31

Got to hit the gym to broaden them shoulders that much

12:33

more.

12:33

Ben, thanks for doing the show. We'll talk to you again. You're

12:35

the best swarf always.

12:36

Thank you Man.

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