Ironically enough, the “Too Sweet,” as most people call it, appears to have been created with little intention of it turning into something used onscreen. Originally, the hand signal was a secret handshake of sorts, used by Kevin Nash (who has referred to the signal as the Turkish Wolf), Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Shawn Michaels, and Triple H during their Kliq days. Things changed when Nash, Hall, and eventually Waltman all jumped to WCW in 1996 and became members of the nWo stable. It wasn’t instantaneous, but as time went on, the “Too Sweet” became the official hand signal of the nWo, used by everyone from the aforementioned Hulk Hogan all the way to Eric Bischoff, and became known as the “Too Sweet” thanks to the often used phrase “the nWo is just too sweet” by Hogan and others.

The “Too Sweet” remained popular all throughout the nWo’s run, and even became a signature of the spin-off nWo Wolfpac stable, before largely fading off from wrestling for many years, perhaps to be considered a relic of the 90s. It stormed back, however, in the 2010s, following the formation of the New Japan Pro Wrestling stable Bullet Club. The group took many cues from the nWo, but most notably did so by using the “Too Sweet” gesture, something founding members Karl Anderson and future WWE star Finn Balor had been doing off camera for years anyway. The hand gesture has remained a staple of Bullet Club years later, and almost got the group and New Japan in trouble, when WWE filed a trademark for the hand gesture in 2015, and later sent a cease and desist to the group after they invaded “WWE Raw” in Ontario, California in 2017. Ultimately, however, WWE abandoned the trademark some time later.