Anthony Bowens talks the origins of “scissoring” as part of The Acclaimed act

Anthony Bowens says that the origin of The Acclaimed and scissoring came from both he and tag team partner, Max Caster. In an interview with The Athletic, Bowens spoke about the scissoring catchphrase and the phenomenon it’s become.

Oh my goodness. That is a mixture of Max and I,” Bowens said of the scissoring catchphrase creation. “Actually, I was talking with him about this. One of my favorite things about being in The Acclaimed and having him as my tag-team partner is, one, both of us are so creative, and we’re both open to each other’s ideas. And (tw0), we’re very good at building off each other’s ideas. Our current success is like 50/50 with us putting the stuff together.

Max played a joke on me once when I did The Acclaimed hand signal. He came from behind and scissored me, and that kind of started there. So, that was his idea, and we’d come up with catch phrases. I guess I furthered the scissoring thing, went on live television and yelled, “Scissor me, Daddy Ass!” to their manager Billy Gunn, and that took off. Even with National Scissoring Day, it was something that I said almost jokingly, and then he loved the idea. We talked about it, and he expanded on it, and then you guys got what you got (last week), which I think is one of the best segments in professional wrestling history  We’re very good at feeding off each other, and I’m extremely happy to have somebody who is extremely gung-ho with just about everything. So, a lot of things end up being, ‘Hey wouldn’t it be funny if we did this?’ and the other goes, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.'”

Bowens & Caster are the current AEW World Tag Team Champions. They defeated Swerve In Our Glory to win the titles at the AEW Grand Slam 2 event inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.

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