Before AEW, WWE, or even MLW, Swerve Strickland also turned the heads of many fans via his performances on another cult wrestling brand, albeit under a mask. Swerve’s work as the Killshot character is some of the best the now-defunct Lucha Underground promotion had to offer, but while most fans of the show would point straight to Killshot’s battles against Dante Fox (AEW’s AR Fox), Swerve himself chose to spotlight an earlier bout pitting Killshot against the slimy villain Marty “The Moth” Martinez.

“That was what really propelled me and I capitalized off of a lot of momentum from that match,” Swerve said. “That’s a very underrated match in my career, and I think a lot of people should go back to really watch that one because I was fighting someone bigger than me who it was like that someone who won’t give up to someone who won’t go down.”

“It was like a great clash of two different personalities. That’s where it all clicked for me as like, I know how to do this now,” Swerve continued. “I know how to do this, and I shout out to Marty, Martin Casaus, Marty the Moth. Truly, we brought out the best in each other that nobody seen coming. A lot of people knew me and Fox were going to just go balls to the wall and kill it, but it all started from the Weapons of Mass Destruction match with Marty the Moth and episode two of season three.”