WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann recently spoke with BET.com ahead of tonight’s WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view; you can read a few highlights below:
Rich Swann comments on defending his title at the Royal Rumble against Neville:
It’s going to be, obviously, the biggest match of my career and it’s going to be in the Alamodome — 60,000 people, maybe even more. To go out there and to defend the cruiserweight championship against a guy that I knew for years, a guy that I’ve traveled up and down the roads with, shared hotel rooms with, learned languages … and everything … we’re going to be in a featured match on Royal Rumble and we’re going to bring the heat. You can expect nothing but fireworks in that match.
Swann shares his favorite Royal Rumble memories:
I got a couple. One would definitely be — and it’s kind of messed up because I love TakaMichinoku — but I can’t remember who threw him over the top rope, but he hit the floor, his feet totally missed the floor and he 450’d and hit his face on the floor. And Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler — maybe even 30 minutes after his elimination — Jerry being the guy that he is says, ‘Wait a minute, I know this is off subject, but can we talk about that Taka Michinoku elimination?’ And then they played it in slow-mo, with him hitting his face. And Jerry’s going off, laughing and thinking it’s the most hilarious thing ever.
Swann reveals some of his dream matches with the WWE roster:
I definitely would love a match with Seth Rollins. Definitely, I would like a rematch with Finn Balor and really anybody on the WWE roster today is amazing. This is the best roster that the WWE has had with Raw, SmackDown and NXT in years. There’s Dolph Ziggler, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, Chris Jericho is still going killing it, Roman Reigns killing it … all these guys are all amazing. I would love to wrestle any one of them.
