Only a sign of friendship.
Max Caster and Anthony Bowens have had a solid run in AEW since debuting in the promotion. Liked by many fans, it is expected that the team will be turning face soon. This past Wednesday, Billy Gunn sided with The Acclaimed instead of his two sons.
While interviewing Bowens on Talk Is Jericho, Jericho asked about the group’s use of “scissoring”, and what it meant.
“Scissoring is simply a sign of friendship and nothing more,” Bowens said with a laugh. “That was another thing [that came up] organically. A lot of things that people love about The Acclaimed have all been organic stuff, which is pretty cool too. There was one time on ‘Dark’ where I hit my little pose where I put my hand down and it looks like an A. Then Max came up from behind and I think, just to rib me, he tried to catch me with the scissor, and I reacted to it like, ‘Whoa, what are you doing?!’ Again, in the beginning, I was super safe with things … They actually asked us to stop doing it for a little bit.”
“And then, I think Max milked my fingers once, which was even worse. So they were like, ‘Go back to the scissoring.’ I was just on the floor for — I can’t remember what match it was, but I knew we were on to something when the entire front row had their hands out and they were all yelling, ‘Bowens, scissor me!’ And then it just became a thing. And now, we do meet and greats, we just did one last weekend where we signed for 4, 5 hours straight, just a constant line. Every person wanted to scissor, they wanted to double scissor, they wanted to chain scissor, they wanted to do all kinds of scissoring. So, it’s a thing now. It’s the new craze in wrestling.”
Anthony Bowens on Talk Is Jericho
Time will tell how much further scissoring will take off given how over it is at this moment in time, but it is quite funny to imagine the pair not using the joke.
H/T to WrestlingInc for transcription
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