WWE star Rich Swann recently spoke with Josh Barnett for USA Today’s For The Win; you can read a few excerpts below:
Rich Swann comments on the progress of the Cruiserweight division so far:
It takes time for the WWE Universe to really digest about seven to eight new guys that are coming on the scene and it’s hard to get to know everybody. Now the WWE Universe is starting to get to know everyone’s personalities and who some of these guys really are, and what their agendas are in the division.
Things are really starting to heat up with the cruiserweight division and on 205 Live, especially with Neville coming in and shaking things up and really proving his stature as King of the Cruiserweights. With him winning the cruiserweight championship at the Royal Rumble, I feel that was a big driving point for the division.
The cruiserweights are out showing that we aren’t some guys who are 205 pounds or less flying around and not knowing what to do in there. We are showing that we can put on some of the best matches that WWE has to offer.
Swann talks about being in NXT before the Cruiserweight Classic was announced, if he had any idea WWE had planned to embrace cruiserweights again:
“I never saw anything coming, not at all. I always kept my nose to the grindstone and I always waited for my opportunity patiently. That’s what I feel you have to do in WWE to succeed. Once you do get that opportunity, you gotta go hard. You gotta really, really really show the WWE Universe what you’re all about and what you’re working with and why you’re in the WWE. I think the WWE saw these talented entertainers and they came up with the WWE Cruiserweight Classic, and you saw what happened with that.”
Swann comments on where he might be on the Wrestlemania 33 card since the Cruiserweight Championship match is already set:
“I just hope that I get to perform and get a match. I tell you what, though, I think that will be a great match for the division, when you consider Austin Aries’ list of accomplishments and everything he has done in this industry. That will be a banging match. If I do not get a chance to participate at WrestleMania that is one match that I am going to keep an eye on.”
