The Gunns (Austin and Colten) appeared on Busted Open Radio this week. Colten Gunn was asked to give his thoughts on winning the AEW Tag Team titles with his brother Austin from The Acclaimed on AEW Dynamite:
“I mean, it was the greatest moment in 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 just 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. I just want to reiterate that and let people not forget that, that we’ve only been doing this for like I said, like less than 10 TV matches, but that moment was awesome. I mean, we’re champions and you can’t take that away from us.”
Austin Gunn added, “I’m just 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 always like, ‘Oh, The Gunns are so boring. I can’t get behind them. Oh my gosh, they’re not even good at wrestling.’ Then 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 1-2-3 and Bowens doesn’t kick out, I look over the crowd and everybody’s like, ‘Oh my God, my favorite tag team. 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 over the crowd followed by bullsh*t chants while me and Colten raising the titles high on the stage, just embracing the bullsh*t chants, just soaking that in. That is what I love. I love seeing them just in shock because we’re taking over. We’re the 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 that can touch us.”
NXT’s Jacy Jayne also appeared on the show and she was asked if she feels her hard work is paying off in NXT:
“Yeah, I think recently I’ve been starting to get more credit for everything, especially, honestly, after Mandy left. As sad as that whole situation was and we tried to make the most of it going forward, I feel like that kind of helped me break out of this Toxic Attraction shell. Now people were paying attention to me more and listening to what I had to say. I haven’t gotten a lot of credit while we were all together, but now I’m starting to show my character and how much I’ve grown over the last year and a half, two years. So I think this was honestly my breakout moment. Even at Vengeance Day, it was kind of sink or swim for us, like now you’re on your own. You have to prove that you can do it by yourself. I went into that match with that mind frame.”
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