The Acclaimed wrestled together that same night on “AEW Dark” against The Best Friends and were then given their contracts.

“That’s when I met Max, my tag team partner, Max Caster, for the first time and he was like, ‘Hey, we’ve got this idea for … or I got this idea for you to be The Acclaimed,’ and I was like, ‘That’s awesome.’ I don’t know what it is, but cool, that’s really awesome. We went out, we wrestled that night, and then he came back and he was like, ‘Here’s your contracts’ and I signed it right away.”

The Acclaimed has become one of AEW’s most popular tag teams and even held the AEW World Tag Team titles for 140 days, before losing them in February to The Gunns (Austin and Colten Gunn). The Gunns would later lose the titles to the current champions, FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) in April. 

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