Heading into WrestleMania, Sheamus and Cesaro don't appear to have any challengers for the RAW Tag Team Championships and it remains to be seen whether or not that will change in the coming weeks. In the meantime, though, both men are talking about how they came up with The Bar gimmick and its origins are surprisingly random (like most great ideas in the wrestling business).
Here's what Cesaro had to say about the team's humble beginnings and where that catchphrase came from:
"We did one of those, like a VIP meet and greet in Germany, I think it was, on the European tour, and we didn’t have a pose or anything. Everyone turns up and, usually, you just put your fist up and “Grrr,” like do your wrestler face or whatever. I think we just put our thumbs up and Sheamus mentioned how Trump may have ruined the thumbs up, so we just put the thumb in the middle. Then we were like, thinking, “That kinds of looks like…mediocre.” It looks like when something’s kind of okay. We were like, “We’re better than that. We’ve got to be the bar. We’re above it. We are the bar.” And that kind of evolved into, “We don’t just set the bar, we are The Bar,” and that was just out of us goofing around that that happened."
Sheamus, meanwhile, elaborated on how that advanced and ended up influencing the team's ring gear:
"The matching gear was a big thing, too. This didn’t just happen overnight. It was progressional. We were still wearing our own stuff – then, at Mania, we changed to suit jackets and the kilts, then we turned heel, then we were wearing the army jackets with the kilts. Then the next week, we had matching gear. Everything has dragged out so, for us, it has meant a lot more."
Rumours are swirling that The Bar could square off with Matt and Jeff Hardy at WrestleMania, especially as the former's feud with Bray Wyatt is nearing its end. What would you guys like to see from this impressive duo at the Showcase of the Immortals? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.