Swerve Strickland is known for his time with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, where he is a former one-time NXT North American Champion.
40 Facts About Swerve Strickland
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Swerve Strickland is well known for his time on Lucha Underground, where he performed under the ring name Killshot.
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Swerve Strickland's father was a sergeant first class cook in the United States Army.
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Swerve Strickland's father moved the family to Frankfurt, Germany when Strickland was two months old to live on an American military base.
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Swerve Strickland spent the first seven years of his life in Germany.
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Shane Swerve Strickland decided to become a professional wrestler when he was an 18-year-old, one year into his military service.
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Swerve Strickland was serving as a signal communications specialist, a position he went on to hold for eight years.
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Swerve Strickland began training at Ground Xero Wrestling Training Academy in August 2008, doing so while still active duty for the military.
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Swerve Strickland had military commitments in the city of York, Pennsylvania, which forced him to only wrestle in that general area's independent scene in the early years of his career.
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Swerve Strickland would go to debut for World Xtreme Wrestling in a six-man match on September 15,2012.
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Swerve Strickland made his Combat Zone Wrestling debut on February 4,2012 in a dark match.
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On March 10,2012, at Aerial Assault, Swerve Strickland participated in the main event, a Best Of The Best 11 Qualifying Aerial Assault Elimination Match won by Samuray del Sol.
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At Best of the Best 12, Swerve Strickland participated in the Best of the Best tournament, but he was defeated in the first round by Alex Colon.
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On September 14,2013, at Down with the Sickness, Swerve Strickland participated in the main event a Chris Cash Memorial Fatal 4 Way Ladder match for the CZW Wired TV Championship, but the match was won by Colon.
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On March 8,2014, at High Stakes, Swerve Strickland defeated the CZW Wired Champion Devon Moore to win the title for the first time.
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At Best of the Best XIII, Swerve Strickland retained the title against Moore in a Ladder match.
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At Dojo Wars 6, Swerve Strickland lost the title against Gacy.
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However, Swerve Strickland regained the title two weeks later at Dojo Wars 7.
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In October 2014, Swerve Strickland participated in the World Triangle Tournament, a tournament held by Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling and Big Japan Pro-Wrestling.
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In 2016, Swerve Strickland had an acclaimed series of matches with Dezmond Xavier and in the 2017 Best of the Best tournament, he made it to the finals before losing to Dave Crist.
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Page then challenged both men to a Cage Of Death match for the title, which Swerve Strickland was unsuccessful at winning.
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On May 5,2012, Swerve Strickland made his debut for Evolve Wrestling, where he teamed with Latin Dragon to defeat DMC and Nate Carter.
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Swerve Strickland wrestled NXT's Kassius Ohno at Evolve 116 on November 10,2018 in a losing effort.
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Swerve Strickland faced JD Drake at Evolve 126 for the WWN Championship in a match he lost.
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In 2016, Swerve Strickland made his debut in Germany for Westside Xtreme Wrestling, taking part in the 16 Carat Gold tournament and later their World Tag Team League, which he won alongside David Starr.
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On March 23,2019, Swerve Strickland competed for The Crash Lucha Libre in fatal-4-way for The Crash Cruiserweight Championship.
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Swerve Strickland won the PCW Ultra Light Heavyweight Championship on March 26,2018.
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Swerve Strickland finished the year with successful defenses against Dragon Lee, Flip Gordon, Rey Horus and Darby Allin, among others.
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Swerve Strickland would vacate the Light Heavyweight Championship shortly after, and he defended the Ultra Heavyweight Championship at their A2K19 event on January 18,2019 against Brian Cage.
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On March 9,2019, Swerve Strickland gave a farewell speech at a DEFY Wrestling event, indicating he will soon be signing with a major company.
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Swerve Strickland participated in El Rey Network professional wrestling television series Lucha Underground.
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Swerve Strickland became a central character on Lucha Underground, as one of a small group of characters to appear in every season.
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On October 5,2017, Swerve Strickland debuted in the main event of Major League Wrestling's 2017 rebirth show One Shot by defeating Ricochet.
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Swerve Strickland lost the title to wrestler Low Ki after Strickland had a few successful defenses, with his reign lasting 91 days.
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On episode 32 of MLW's weekly program MLW Fusion, Swerve Strickland faced Low Ki in rematch for the Heavyweight title.
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Swerve Strickland proceeded to throw trash at the MLW employees that were confronting him, he flips off one of them and hops the rail into the audience and leaves.
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Swerve Strickland opened the show with a heel promo disparaging the fans and the city until he was interrupted by Rush.
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On January 15,2019, Swerve Strickland stated on Twitter that he was now a free agent.
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Swerve Strickland has two daughters and a son, that were all born in the early 2010s.
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Swerve Strickland is the first cousin of former NFL linebacker Fred Swerve Strickland.