Max Caster wants to grow while he feels Anthony Bowens and Billy Gunn do not.
Over the past few weeks, tension has continued to grow between The Acclaimed, including an accidental shot with a title belt and more. On the January 18th edition of AEW Collision, the team would split, as Bowens and Gunn went their seperate ways from Max Caster.
In a new AEW digital exclusive, Max Caster reacted to The Acclaimed's implosion, noting that he just wants to grow as 'The Best Wrestler Alive', but Billy Gunn and Anthony Bowens do not.
"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."
EXCLUSIVE: @PlatinumMax makes his decision clear. pic.twitter.com/9LEYGR0vwX
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 19, 2025
For more on The Acclaimed's split, you can read more about that here.
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