John Cena has high praise for Max Caster.
Dating back to September 2022, The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) have been AEW World Tag Team Champions. They began tagging in late 2020.
As Caster continued to appear on AEW programming and doing his raps on television, he garnered praise from John Cena which both have spoken about publicly.
While Caster was being interviewed on The AJ Awesome Show, he spoke about the communication he’s had with Cena and Cena telling Caster that what he does is better than what he did.
Well, John Cena is a huge inspiration. That’s right, you can’t see him. I’ve never met him. He reaches out to me from time to time. He’s been very, very nice and for my hero, as a teenager, to reach out to me and in the midst of people saying, ‘Oh, you’re a Cena ripoff. You’re just doing something that’s old. We don’t wanna see this in wrestling now.’ For him to reach out and say, ‘You’re doing it the right way.’ Sometimes he says I do it better than he did. It’s his opinion. I don’t know if I wanna agree with that but I believe in myself 100 percent and his confidence in me only boosts me up. I don’t know if he knows how much that means, but it means a lot and so he’s my inspiration back then and now still.
As the conversation continued, Caster was asked how he feels about kids getting in trouble for doing the scissoring gesture. He said it’s what he and Anthony Bowens wanted to happen.
He mentioned that there was a security guard at an AEW show who told them that his cousin was suspended from school for doing the gesture.
It’s great (knowing kids are getting in trouble at school for doing scissoring gesture). We had one of the security guards at one of the arenas we were at, pulled me and Anthony [Bowens] aside and he goes, ‘Hey, I just want you guys to know that my cousin just got suspended from school because he was doing the scissoring’ and we go, ‘That’s exactly what we wanted.’ Kids are gonna get in trouble, but if they’re gonna get in trouble, we want it to be from scissoring.
For two years, Caster and Bowens have been a team but prior to that, Caster was a singles talent and still works independent dates as a singles talent at times.
He stated that he enjoys both tag and singles wrestling and explained what he enjoys about each but right now, tag wrestling is what he prefers.
I like both (singles & tag wrestling) for different reasons. I know that’s not a good answer. Anthony’s a great wrestler and it’s great to work in a team environment. It’s a lot more creative, collaborative, there’s a lot more comradery in that. You’re watching each other’s backs, coming up with gameplans. There’s a reason why The Acclaimed is as successful as it is-is because two heads are better than one and we’re both really, really determined to make things great for us. Singles matches are fun, mainly because I don’t have to take anyone else’s opinion into account. So me and Anthony [Bowens] might say, hey, let’s get some new moves and he pitches a move and I’ll say, I don’t like that and I pitch a move, he says, I don’t like that but if I wrestle singles, I can go for any move I want. I can do whatever I want, I can take my time and there’s just more control in singles match situations so they are good for different reasons but, right now, I’m the World Tag Team Champion and that’s going pretty well so, let’s just say tag team wrestling is number one in my heart.
The next title defense for The Acclaimed is this coming Wednesday against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. Comments from a rap Caster did resulted in Karen Jarrett taking to social media to share her displeasure of what was said.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The AJ Awesome Show with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
