It meant a great deal to Nana.
There was a number one contender’s match at AEW’s Revolution pay-per-view featuring Ricochet versus Swerve Strickland.
The bout was to determine the next challenger to the AEW World Championship but for Prince Nana, it was also about getting back the Embassy robe that Ricochet took from him. After Strickland got the victory, there was a moment when he got on one knee and presented the robe to Nana. Nana then put the robe on Strickland and they celebrated with the live crowd.
During Nana’s appearance on Josh Nason’s Punch-Out, he expressed how much that moment means to him and shared that he did not know Strickland was going to get on one knee and hand him the robe.
Oh man! There’s been other big moments too, but that moment right there was like the icing on the cake of why I am in this business and why I do what I do and why I wanna inspire people to continue their path and keep on pushing forward to just be better and just, like, that was it, all in that moment and when he got down on his knee — he didn’t say was gonna do all of that but when he did get down on his knee and all of that, it was not only a great moment for me, and it was just a great moment for professional wrestling period because I think it just showed that we can have a moment — not only just a moment. We can have quite a few moments like this with any type of individual who really, really wants it. Black, white, Chinese, and Swerve (Strickland) is proving that and you know, yeah, a lot of the people there, you might not see one particular group of people. Let me tell you something, people are watching all over. Every type of demographic, they’re beginning to tune in and it’s because AEW is opening up that reason to watch because hey, there’s people that I’m similar to on here and there’s emotion. These people, they really know each other? They got love for each other? Like, oh shoot so, that’s what that was and it was a big moment and I’m very appreciative of him and I wanna make more moments like that and just comes from being focused, listening to the fans and just following a vision of greatness. Everyone in that company wants to be great and I’m not only talking about the professional wrestlers. I’m talking about everybody, from the video people to the music people to the lighting people to the set designers. Everyone there wants to be great. Even the truck drivers. We’re trying to be great doing what it is that we do and bring some of that to the table here so, as long as that’s happening, I think we’re gonna have some more moments like that and it’s not only gonna be with me and Swerve. Everyone is gonna strive to have those type of moments now in AEW a lot more and there’s been other ones for other situations but that one right there is the big icing on the cake for the company in general…
The duo of Nana and Strickland were present on the 4/9 AEW Dynamite. To hear/watch POST Wrestling’s review of that show, click here.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit Josh Nason’s Punch-Out with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
