Pre-apocalypse Negan also evidently had a lady love, who either didn’t know about his ping-pong antics or was surprisingly okay with him humiliating impressionable teens.
We already know at least a little bit about what the Negan of Robert Kirkman’s comics was up to before the zombie apocalypse.
A prequel series on AMC could easily craft a story out of anything that Kirkman has already published.
According to Kirkman’s Here’s Negan story, Negan was once a high school teacher and coach who used obscenities and sexual references to shame students into being better at ping-pong, which… seems a little bit excessive for a game that involves two people paddling a ball back and forth across a table.