AEW Star Remorseless As Former Tag Team Champions Explode
A pair of former AEW World Tag Team Champions are going their separate ways.
On the January 18th episode of Collision, Max Caster said he wanted to clear the air with Anthony Bowens, but the result was anything but.
Caster told Bowens he was upset that he didn’t recognise him as the Best Wrestler Alive, but after saying he’d always protected his friend, Bowens said Caster was an “arrogant edge lord piece of sh*t.”
Billy Gunn arrived to try and calm the situation, but Caster said the veteran was only sticking around because his sons wanted nothing to do with him. Bowens eventually rejected Caster by flipping him off and scissored with Gunn one more time.
AEW Star Max Caster Ready To Move On
In a new AEW digital exclusive, Caster reflected on the split, but it quickly became clear he’d got little time for nostalgia. The self-styled ‘Best Wrestler Alive’ said he just wanted to grow and neither Bowens nor Billy Gunn are ready or willing to do the same.
“Yeah, The Acclaimed is done. I’m just trying to grow as a person. Anthony Bowens, Billy Gunn, they’re not ready to grow. But everybody’s at different stages of their lives, and you gotta understand that. But I knew that going into this speech today.
Anthony Bowens is my best friend for life, and I know he’s hard-headed, and ever since he started listening to Billy Gunn, he’s been a real stubborn guy, and I have been too. Billy is a bad influence, has been since the 90s, but I just told it like it was, and as the captain and the leader of The Acclaimed, sometimes the captain’s gotta go down with the ship, and I was going down with the ship.
Even though I said, I wanna stop rapping, they said, no, it’s all we got. I said, let’s stop scissoring. They said, no, that’s, everyone loves it, and I said, okay, let’s keep doing it, but I wanna grow, I wanna grow, but they never let me grow. So, I went a little off the deep end, and I just had to find that life raft off that sinking ship, and that life raft was me.
I found myself, my self-worth, my self-confidence… I love myself, and I think that’s a good thing to say. But Anthony Bowens, Billy Gunn, they’re not at that point in their lives yet, so, hopefully one day they are, and it’s just not today. So thank you guys very much. Best wrestler alive, read the jacket, cause the jacket don’t lie.”
Elsewhere on Collision, Christopher Daniels wrestled what will likely be his final match going out with a bloody defeat to Hangman Adam Page in a Texas Death Match.
H/t to Fightful