Anthony Bowens announced plans to introduce a new submission move during an upcoming AEW trios match against The Death Riders. The Acclaimed member shared details about the hold during a recent interview.
Speaking with PWInsider, Bowens revealed the move serves as a tribute to Mario Bokara, a figure from his early wrestling development. The submission was originally passed down from Santino Marella to Bokara.
“I’m very excited to be using a new submission. I haven’t named it yet. It’s an ode to a man that you’re very familiar with too from our WrestlePro days, Mario Bokara,” Bowens said. “That was a move that was passed down from Santino Marella to him, and I am using that now as a tribute to Mario because Mario’s a guy who played a big role in my development.”
Bowens expressed confidence about using the hold in the upcoming match.
“I would love to get in a position to do that and rip some Death Riders’ arms off this Sunday and again take home a W in front of 14,000 people,” he stated.
The wrestler has not yet announced an official name for the submission hold.
AEW at Madison Square Garden
Elsewhere in the interview, Bowens discussed the possibility of All Elite Wrestling holding an event from Madison Sqaure Garden.
It remains to be seen if we’ll ever see MSG go All Elite, but Bowens says AEW would have no problem selling out the World’s Most Famous Arena.
“That’s one of my career goals. I’m pretty sure I heard MJF say the same thing. That’s one of the career goals, is to wrestle there. So hopefully one day we can make that happen.
People are delusional if they think we wouldn’t sell it out. We got 14,000 over in Queens. They said the same thing about Wembley, that we wouldn’t put 80,000 in there, and we sold the place. We would do it.”