The Butcher compares he and The Blade to the Road Warriors.
The Butcher and The Blade have been one of AEW’s most consistent tag teams since the company’s conception and along with The Bunny bring an unsettling factor to the division.
Speaking to Sam Roberts, The Butcher explained the vision of the group.
“I think it was just a matter of laying down some creative, understanding what we could do to take ourselves and — I’m a weird person, I will look at everything and go like, oh, this isn’t happening. If this isn’t happening, how can I fill that void? On the independent scene at that time, there were some big guys. There were tag teams that were bigger dudes, but they weren’t scary looking guys, there was no road warrior. I was like, if we create some sort of road warrior situation, we can take that avenue and expand on it. The best part about the Road Warriors is that they never gave you too much, they were just dumb guys that beat people up. When I kind of explained the characters to [The Blade], I said let’s do Road Warriors, but let’s throw this weird 90’s action spin on it where we’re the cool guys in every action movie that lose in the end. If you understand that, you’re always going to be a monster, you’re always going to be used. It’s just like, I don’t know, I think I took more of an analytical way of looking at an approach and I think that’s from music too,”
The Butcher
The tag team last competed on the September 15th edition of AEW Rampage.
H/T to Fightful for transcription
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