10 Wrestlers You Were Totally Wrong About

2. The Acclaimed

2022 saw The Acclaimed become quite possibly the hottest tag team on the planet for a spell there, with Max Caster and Anthony Bowens, alongside good ol' Daddy Ass, scissoring their way to an AEW World Tag Team Championship win at September's Grand Slam.

However, around two years earlier, as Tony Khan himself was quick to note in an exchange with a seemingly frustrated fan pointing out how odd it was to see The Trustbusters pushed in the main event of Rampage, some fans weren't exactly doing backflips at the idea of the fresh, young team taking up a decent spot on Dynamite.

Sticking with the loudmouth twosome over the next few years through injuries and rather foolish diss raps, TK refused to give up on the idea of Caster and Bowens being a set of genuine All Elite stars of the future.

An organic connection with an audience that simply had no choice but to Love The Acclaimed eventually became so hard to ignore that the AEW President had no choice but to hand the tag title ball to the cheeky duo over an FTR enjoying a career-best 12-months.

Tony clearly saw something special in the charismatic lads from day one. And he's now reaping the rewards for defying those who initially doubted the scissoring squad.