Swerve Strickland Talks ‘The Nana’, Says He’ll Do It For The First Time In The ‘Big Pressure’ Video
Swerve Strickland discusses Prince Nana’s viral dance.
For the past number of weeks, Prince Nana has went viral on a number of occasions for hitting his signature dance while coming to the ring with Swerve Strickland, and during matches that the ‘Mogul’ is competing in.
The dance has also seemingly resulted in a boost of popularity for Strickland himself, as many fans are seeming to get behind his character, despite the fact that he’s a heel.
In a new interview with DAZN, Strickland thanked Nana for the traction, as he thinks the song is likely a gold record at this point.
“Yeah, yeah it has because the song has been out for like a year, year and a half. Something about putting a dance to it shot it over the hedge like by far. The stream numbers have went crazy and it’s cool because I own the song, so I’m watching the numbers just jump weekly. I still haven’t got a collection of data from TikTok or YouTube listens, so when I accumulate all of that, it’s probably a gold record at this point. I thank Nana for that.”
On the September 27 episode of AEW Dynamite, Strickland prevented Nana from doing the dance headed into his contract signing with ‘Hangman’ Adam Page. Strickland went on to speak about this and how he wanted to leave fans wanting it more.
“To see how much traction it was getting and the energy we were getting from the crowd, it’s like, do I stop this? Do I stop him from doing it tonight because we just really started rolling, but I got convinced [to do it]. Hearing [the reaction from the crowd], it was like, yeah, okay. It’s like a girl denying that kiss until the next date, it makes you want her even more. She’s even more attractive to me now, now I gotta really fork out some money on this next date, I gotta really take her to a nice restaurant. That’s what we got from the fans at WrestleDream, it was like, give us Nana, we want it so bad. Alright, I’ll allow it.”
Strickland then explained why he hasn’t peformed the dance yet, noting that fans will see it for the first time in the upcoming music video for ‘Big Pressure’.
“I have not done the dance. There’s a scientific reason why I haven’t done the dance. I will say we just shot the music video for Big Pressure and so when that debuts, that’s when you shall see the dance.”
Swerve Strickland wrestled Bryan Danielson on the October 10 episode of AEW Dynamite. Fans can find Fightful’s coverage of the show by clicking here.
Elsewhere in the interview, Strickland spoke about the recent NXT and AEW head-to-head event. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
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