Anthony Bowens Discusses Working With Billy Gunn, Fans Loving To Scissor
Anthony Bowens as at the top of the tag team mountain in AEW as he and Max Caster currently reign as the AEW Tag Team Champions.
The duo reached new heights while Bowens was injured, but they aligned with the Gunn Club (Austin & Colten Gunn) and Billy Gunn. Billy, now known as “Daddy Ass,” would remain aligned with The Acclaimed after his sons turned on him.
Speaking to The Athletic, Bowens discussed what it’s been like working with Gunn.
“It’s been huge. He was part of one of the best tag teams in professional wrestling back in the day. So much knowledge, so smart. To be able to pick his brain and figure out a strategy for how we’re going to attack our opponents. He’s been an absolutely incredible resource, and he’s a legend. You can tell how much fun he’s having, and it’s fun to see,” he said.
The Acclaimed and “Daddy Ass” celebrated National Scissoring Day on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, uniting America with a bipartisan scissoring.
Asked if he thought scissoring would become as big as it has, Bowens said, “Truthfully, no. We had no idea. We were originally asked to not do it at a point, but for whatever reason, we just started doing it again. There was this one time I was on the floor, and I looked up and fans — all of them — had their hands out with the scissor gesture yelling for me to scissor them. So, we knew we had something after that. I think it’s turned into the biggest thing in professional wrestling right now. People can’t get enough of the scissoring. We’ll do meet-and-greets and other stuff, and for hours, every single person will come up and say, ‘Can we scissor you?’ It’s fantastic.”
Gunn will be in action on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite when he takes on Swerve Strickland.
Fightful will have live coverage of AEW Dynamite beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
