A prank by Vince McMahon inadvertently led to a top merchandise-moving catchphrase.
Braun Strowman has revealed that Vince McMahon’s attempt to prank him in 2018 was the spark that made him come up with his “Get these hands” catchphrase. Speaking on 10,000 NOs, the Monster Among Men explained that when he was in the middle of a match against Rhyno on Raw, McMahon made the call for him to cut a promo with no preparation. Strowman did as asked, and Heath Slater was the first man to be on the receiving end of the threat of his hands.
“It was a random Raw. I was wrestling Rhino at the time and Vince liked to goof off and we call rib, play pranks on me. So he would do goofy stuff on me on live television. He’s like literally radios to the ref and he says ‘tell him to bump Rhino roll out of the ring and cut a promo. And I go I was like what does he want me to say? He said just cut a promo.’ And I was like ‘so Heath Slater’s his tag partner at the time and Heath’s running around on the floor running his mouth doing this and I’m like going on the fly on the fly.”
“Get the microphone. I was like ‘Look Heath, there’s two things that you can do. You can sit on this floor and shut up or you can get in this ring and get these hands like your partner.’ And we came in the back and it was trending worldwide to get these hands on stuff. And then I had to fight tooth and nail for two weeks to get them to do merch with it. They didn’t want to do merch with it. And then it was the number one piece, number one selling piece of merch for a year and a half.”
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H/T to F4WOnline for the above transcription.
