The Gunns Address Fan Reaction To Their AEW World Tag Team Title Win
The Gunns recently became AEW World Tag Team Champions for the first time
It was one of the biggest upsets in AEW history when The Gunns defeated The Acclaimed for the AEW World Tag Team Championships on the February 8 edition of AEW Dynamite, and to say fan opinion on the title change has been ‘divided’ is a huge understatement.
Colten and Austin Gunn became one-time tag team champions with their surprise win over the super popular Acclaimed, with fans in the arena voicing their displeasure, whilst many fans online questioned AEW’s booking.
Now during an appearance on Busted Open Radio, The Gunns have spoken of their win, saying the following about their accomplishment:
"It was the greatest moment of my life. I don’t know if a lot of people know this, but I’ve only been wrestling for two years. I was on TV after eight weeks of training, my first match on TV was against Sting. I’m really good at this. My one goal was to win the tag team championships with my brother, and I did that. Another thing is, me and Austin have been broken away from my dad for four to six months, something like that. We’ve had maybe 10 TV matches together, maybe, and we’re already champions. People are like, ‘Oh, this is the peak.’ This isn’t even the beginning for me and Austin, and I just want to reiterate that and let people not forget that, that we’ve only been doing this for less than 10 TV matches. But that moment was awesome. We’re champions, and you can’t take that away from us," Colten said.
As for the reaction to their title win, Austin Gunn was quick to defend The Gunns’ run so far:
“We’re so sick of not being handed or given our flowers. Colten has been in this business for two years. Every time we step out of that curtain, everybody on Twitter is like, ‘The Gunns are so boring. I can’t get behind them. Oh my gosh, they’re not even good at wrestling.’ Every time we go out there, I can’t even hear Colten over the ‘Ass Boy’ chants and the way we have them in the palm of our hand. So when that one, two, three [happens], and Bowens doesn’t kick out, everybody, I look over, the crowd and everybody is like, ‘Oh my god. My favourite tag team! No, not The Acclaimed, oh no.’ That is the best moment. I can’t even sleep. I still think about it.
“It’s one of the best moments I’ve ever had in my wrestling career, hearing the hush and the silence of the crowd, which [was] followed by bulls*** chants while me and Colten [were] raising the titles high, on the stage, looking over, just embracing the bulls*** chants, just soaking that in. That is what I love. I love seeing them just in shock because we’re taking over. We’re head of this division. We now have the tag team title belts. Come get them. We’re the best to ever do this. Second-generation, up and coming AEW superstars. Name a young team that’s better than The Gunns. There isn’t. There’s nobody, nobody that can touch us," Austin said.
H/T: Fightful