Anthony Bowens is ready to win gold and relocate past The Acclaimed.
Bowens returned to AEW at the company’s Dynasty pay-per-view. There, he answered the unseal challenge of his former tag team partner, Max Caster. Bowens had been off television since The Acclaimed split up. Now, he says the concentrate of his return is becoming an accomplished singles star.
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“I think we’ve accomplished everything that I’ve wanted to accomplish as a tag team. Despite my feelings about Max, The Acclaimed is one of the best tag teams in the history of AEW. I’m pretty sure we still have the most wins in the history of the corporation as a tag team,” Bowens noted.
Bowens said that he’d “gladly” tag with him again if he needed back up, but his focus is on his singles career right now.
“I’m focused on becoming a singles competitor and achieving my goals. I am fully, fully prepared to do everything I can to work firm to continue to acquire everything I have in the singles division. I fully intend to beat gold,” Bowens said. “I’d love to be AEW’s first gay singles champion. So I have a lot of things I would like to fulfill, and that all starts right now.”
Anthony Bowens has made histo
Anthony Bowens (@bowens_official) is a professional wrestler with All Elite Wrestling and is part of the tag team “The Acclaimed” with Max Castor. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about signing with AEW, how Tony Khan paired him with Max Caster and created The Acclaimed, what he has learned from operational with Billy Gunn, his plan to reunite Billy and Chuck, how he came out as lgbtq+ to his family and friends, being an LGBTQ role model, what winning the AEW Tag Team Championships meant to him, why he decided to move to Los Angeles, his YouTube channel with his boyfriend called “Michael & Anthony” and much more!
On what being a champion in AEW means to Anthony Bowens:
“It means a lot. It means a whole lot. I mean, Max and I came into the corporation in October of 2020. And less than two years later, we are at the top of the tag division, we’re at the top of the world. It’s a moment that I had been working for. Obviously, I didn’t know I was going to conquer the Tag Team titles but winning a championship and a major corporation with all the unyielding work and all the sacrifices that went into, you know, becoming a profess
The queer messaging of the Acclaimed — the two tag team champions for the professional wrestling business All Elite Wrestling (AEW) — veers in enough different directions that it’s hard to pick out a unified message. The fictional world of wrestling, whose staged theatrics and over-the-top characters often shade towards campiness, complicates the real-world impact of that message even further.
One half of the team, Anthony Bowens, regularly records vignettes for Pride Month about his experience as a queer Black man in a violence-obsessed, macho environment. The other half of the team, Max Caster, both flirts relentlessly with AEW’s biggest male villain and sometimes insults his opponents by saying they have sex with men. The second most widespread AEW T-shirt this month bears the team’s catchphrase in bright pink letters: “Scissor me, Daddy Ass.” Every time they step to the wrestling chime, Anthony Bowens makes the same joke about scissoring, punctuating it with faux-orgasmic jitters.
Every time the joke is lesbian sex.
Just in case the joke wasn’t obvious enough, the Acclaimed even named a advance after it: the “Scissor Me Timbers,” where either Caster or Bowens jumps on an o
Max Caster Confirms He Is Closeted
Max Caster shares an interesting truth about himself.
A fan took to Twitter on Thursday and wondered if Max Caster was gay after Anthony Bowens became the first gay champion in AEW’s history. However, Caster would respond to the fan, stating he is closeted.
Caster has recently claimed to be lovers with MJF and also stated he is a virgin. One half of the AEW Tag Champions may come out one day, but today is not that day.
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