Under the team
name, The Acclaimed, Bowens and his wrestling partner, Max Caster, won AEW’s
Tag Team Championship on Wednesday. Video of the victory shows the crowd going
absolutely wild as confetti fills the arena and Bowens and Caster celebrate.
On Twitter,
Bowens used the win as a moment to honor his late grandmother.
“When my Nana
passed in 2015 I promised her I’d be a success,” he wrote. “Nana, I made it!
AEW’s first Gay Champion. Most tag team wins in AEW. Most popular team in
wrestling. EVERYONE LOVES THE ACCLAIMED.”
Bowens came
out in
2017 as bisexual and in
2019 as gay.
“I’ve loved
pro wrestling ever since I was 5 years old and I didn’t want my experience
ruined because of other wrestlers thinking I got into it for the wrong (sexual)
reasons,” Bowens
wrote when he first came out. “The ring is my sanctuary, where nothing else
matters. I couldn’t bear to think that if I came out, I’d spend most of my time
worrying if the person I was wrestling was uncomfortable and didn’t want to
work with me.”
Last year,
Bowens made waves for kissing his boyfriend, Michael Pavano, in front of anti-LGBTQ protestors. He posted a picture to
his Instagram of the pair locking lips in front of signs held by protestors
that said, “Trump, Make America Great Again: Ban Homo Marriage” and “HOMOS GO
TO HELL.”
“#Standup
against hate,” he wrote in the caption.
After Bowens’s
AEW victory, Pavano wrote on Twitter that he is “so unbelievably proud” of him.
“It was truly a surreal experience and I can’t think of anyone more deserving.
I love you so much.”
SOURCE: LGBTQ NATION
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