Despite rumors to the contrary, The Butcher and The Blade tag team name doesn’t really have anything to do with them being butchers.
All Elite Wrestling‘s The Butcher (Andy Williams) was the most recent guest on The Sessions with Renee Paquette to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about The Butcher and The Blade tag team, Williams revealed he found the creative part of professional wrestling and that the tag team name came from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
“The creativeness of pro wrestling is the same exact creative thing I use for music,” The Butcher said. “And at first, I wasn’t getting it. I wasn’t making sense of that part of it. And then once I realized, oh, man, there’s way more showmanship than there is — like showmanship is the most important thing in wrestling, because if you can’t just get in the ring and make the crowd react to anything that’s kind of hard. Like, you can go out there and do a bunch of movements, but like if you don’t have the entertainment part, and I was, I mean, I’ve been entertaining people for a long time. It just never clicked, and then once it did, it was like, oh, okay, maybe I could do this.
“Then offers kept coming for like actual wrestling, instead of just that spot. And then Jesse was just kind of vocalizing the fact that he wanted to do more. We were just working in Toronto. And he was like working in a tag team. And then, I was just in multi-mans all the time; there was never any weight on me. You know what I mean? It was just kind of like, okay, well, I don’t know what to do with them. We’ll put him in an eight-man. And then once me and Jesse started tagging. Then my brain just started kind of like going, Oh, shit, if I look at us, like outlaws, then kind of like come up with something that makes us kind of look like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That’s where the name came from. It was like The Butcher and The Blade. It has nothing to do really with like us being like butchers, but I like the idea of like normal guys going out and kicking some ass.”
Although The Butcher and The Blade tag team name has nothing to do with them being butchers, Williams did spend eight months in culinary school.
“Believe it or not, though. I went to eight months of culinary school,” The Butcher said. “So I do have some sort of chops, but like not that, and my grandfather was a butcher. I ran track in college, and I needed to figure out something to do that would keep my brain there. And I was like, I like cooking. So I’ll just go do that. The worst part is that eight months was like, I probably picked up a spatula or a knife like five times you have to do like hotel management or something like that. So like that eight months was whatever, but I cook every day. I love cooking.”
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