Yesterday on the latest episode of Smackdown Live, the Hit Row faction got a second chance to get into the mix of WWE. Following their release last year, and without Swerve Strickland in their ranks, Triple H decided to bring back Top Dolla, B-Fab & Ashante Adonis. We now have a better idea of just how this deal came together.
Top Dolla Explains How The WWE Hit Row Return Came About
While speaking on Busted Open Radio, Top Dolla would explain how this return would come together. He’d be quotes saying the following.
“Even when Hunter was not in NXT, even when we went up to SmackDown, even when we got released, I never stopped talking to Hunter. We had talked a lot already about hopefully working together in the future. I sent him clips of the stuff we were doing. I sent him clips from GCW, ACW in Trinidad, and clips of me and Ashante
working together as a tag team, letting him know the band was still together.Swerve being added to Hit Row was a Hunter call. Hunter added Swerve to Hit Row because he already saw what we had been doing for a year and was like, ‘This is a good opportunity to debut a faction instead of a tag team with a manager.’ It was cool, it was a good idea, it clearly worked, but Hunter saw it when it was just the three of us. He knew what we were capable of from jump.
Will A New Leader Be Added?
Right now, Swerve Strickland is not expected to return to WWE to rejoin this faction however. He’s currently under contract with All Elite Wrestling, and one half of the AEW World Tag Team Champions with Keith Lee. There’s little for him back in WWE, and he’d acknowledge his old friends getting another chance on Twitter. No doubt, he’s happy to see them get another chance at success – while he rules AEW.
Some have brought up current NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes as a potential replacement for Swerve Strickland in the Hit Row faction, which is an option WWE might explore when it comes time for Hayes to be called up to the main roster.
Should WWE try and replace Swerve Strickland in Hit Row? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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