Over the years fans have seen the stars of wrestling use some interesting hand gestures and for some time now The Acclaimed have been scissoring on national television.
The Acclaimed have become one of the most popular acts in all of AEW thanks to scissoring, but it sounds like some people in AEW weren’t always keen on the hand gesture.
Matt Hardy recently discussed The Acclaimed’s popularity on his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, and he noted that The Acclaimed were told to stop scissoring. Matt then shared a story about his own career when he explained that Stephanie McMahon told him to stop doing the V1 hand gesture when he was doing the Version 1 gimmick.
“The scissoring thing, there was one point where they were told they shouldn’t be doing that, but they still kept doing it and then it got over organically on its own in the most incredibly huge way possible. It speaks volumes about them and I love that they did it. It reminds me of when I was doing the ‘V1’ hand sign and Stephanie McMahon said, ‘You really shouldn’t do that, it’s never going to get over.’ I still kept doing it and it worked, it got over, and it’s still around now. Good for them for sticking to their guns.”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
