Max Caster and Anthony Bowens share their thoughts on the end of The Acclaimed.
Forme AEW World Tag Team Champions The Acclaimed broke up at AEW Collision: Maximum Carnage. Tensions between the two had been rising for weeks, and they argued in a heated confrontation on Saturday night. Caster then walked out on Bowens.
In a digital exclusive, Max Caster commented on the situation.
“Yeah, The Acclaimed is done,” Caster said. “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. But I knew that going into this speech today. Anthony Bowens is my best friend for life, and I know he’s hard-headed. Ever since he started listening to Billy Gunn, he’s been a real stubborn guy. 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. I was going down with the ship.
“Even though I said I want to stop rapping, they said, ‘No, it’s all we got.’ I said, ‘Let’s stop scissoring.’ They said, ‘No, everyone loves it.’ I said, okay, let’s keep doing it. But I want to 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.
Anthony Bowens And Billy Gunn Respond
In another digital exclusive, Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn shared their thoughts on the situation. Gunn told Bowens that he could see what he could do on his own, though Caster had gone off the rails. Bowens then reflected on his run with Caster.
“Five years, Billy. Five years as a team,” he said. “We went from nothing to Wembley Stadium, the highest scissor party on earth, and he threw that all away. This is honestly gonna be a lot to process. But out with the old, in with the new because I got a bad ass in my corner, and I cannot wait to get started because you haven’t seen anything yet.”
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