AEW star Anthony Bowens has discussed he and Max Caster’s increasingly popular decision to scissor each other’s fingers.
The Acclaimed is undoubtedly one of the hottest young tag teams in all of wrestling and their entrances have gained massive amounts of popularity – and the odd amount of notoriety – during their time in AEW.
‘Platinum’ Max Caster provides the raps for The Acclaimed’s entrances before Anthony Bowens lets whatever city they are in that The Acclaimed have arrived. Their antics also include the two scissoring each other’s fingers, something Bowens has enjoyed doing with Billy Gunn in recent weeks as he screams “scissor me Daddy Ass” on live television.
Speaking to Chris Jericho on Talk is Jericho, Anthony Bowens elaborated on how the scissor fingers began:
“Scissoring is simply a sign of friendship and nothing more [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.”
“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.”
It just goes to show that it’s not just five-star classics and brutal, death-defying matches that get over with fans, sometimes you just need to scissor with your buddy.