Swerve Strickland spoke with Bootleg Kev. The AEW Champion was asked about teaming up with Prince Nana, and revealed the process behind figuring out the partnership between the pair.
He noted Nana is his first-ever manager. The pair had to figure out what the manager brought to Swerve that he couldn’t already do himself, including being his “moral compass”.
“Nana’s my first ever manager that I’ve ever had in my career,” Swerve Strickland said. “For me, I feel like it’s like, what is me and Nana’s relationship to one another? Is he a businessman? Does he get contracts done? Is he a sleazy little, like, just a little guy that, like, you know, like a little Muppet that runs? Like, what is he? What is it with relation to Swerve, and what does Swerve need? That was where the questions that I asked myself: why does Swerve need Nana?”
“Well, like now, with just asking those questions, now there’s a multitude of things he does. He kind of does my bidding for him. He’s also my moral compass. If you notice certain things, he’s like, ‘No, no, not right now, boss. Let’s go. Let’s get out of this,’ ’
cause, like, I’ll pop off and start a fight and do some wild shit right then and there, but Nana’s like, ‘Mm, nope, we got bigger things to handle.’ Or like, ‘Hey, there’s some news I need to talk to you about, that happened on Collision,
by the way, that you might not know.’ Okay, so now he’s my ear to the streets too. Then he’s like, ‘Oh, you’re in trouble? Here’s my head, my crown, use it.’”
