13 Things We Learned From New Day On Talk Is Jericho
6. The Clap
Chris wonders how they came up with their trademark clap. Xavier said he was looking for anything to differentiate them, and thought if he could get the crowd to do a specific clap for them - during heat segments, for instance - Vince and the producers would take notice. The three then joke about how this led to Woods sending them videos of him trying out different clap rhythms, and E. adds that they also sent each other half-naked photos of themselves trying out different wrestling gear. Xavier says that it was never intended to have words, just be an easy rhythm that they could slap on the mat, and when they tried it out on house shows it worked. The crowd picked up on it and they ran with it. Then one night the crowd added the words to it and created the "New Day sucks" chant, and the guys were excited and ran with it from that point on.
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