Matt and Nick Jackson, collectively known as The Young Bucks, have opened up about how instrumental Dean Malenko and All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho have been backstage during their shows.
“Let’s Try To Give Them Something Different”
“It’s a team effort, but I would say Chris Jericho has definitely given the most pointers to us, individually, I would say” Nick Jackson shared during an episode of SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio. “Because he’s been doing it for so long and he’s given us tips on how to make things work perfectly. He knows what he’s talking about. He’s so smart. I feel like he’s taught us the most with timing things.”
His brother, Matt Jackson, added “[…] I think the way to stay on top in wrestling is you never stop learning. So to have a guy like a Dean Malenko there, it’s so great to have these minds to just pick. Not even just that. Sometimes we’ll sit at the go position, and I’ll watch a guy like Dean, and I’ll watch the way that he produces the segment and I” ll listen to him. […] You just mentioned with the timing; he knows exactly when to time things.”
He continued, “Chris Jericho is the master at these things. He told Nick the other day, like, if you’ve got a 13-minute match, plan a kickass 13-minute match. Don’t worry too much about the break spots tonight. Let’s try to give them something different. […] We don’t want to fall into doing the same thing every week and fall into these patterns. We’re trying to be unpredictable still, and trying to find our sweet spot.”
The Young Bucks are scheduled to compete against Inner Circle members Santana and Ortiz at AEW’s next pay-per-view, Full Gear, on November 9.
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All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has taken great pride in establishing itself as an all-inclusive wrestling promotion. This mind-set extends to its backstage mentality, where they promote a collaborative atmosphere.
Speaking with TVInsider, Matt and Nick Jackson addressed cultivating this collaborative atmosphere, highlighting how open-minded they are to ideas in order to make AEW has good as it can be.
“If we’re working with a particular talent, we go to them with, ‘What do you think is best?’” Matt Jackson said. “Jon Moxley has a great mind and something the five of us have seen, he may see differently. He might have a different idea because he knows his character better and those nuances. Same with Pac. What a great mind he has and useful tools he has. Hangman Page, too. It’s not just us.”
He continued, “Chris Jericho, who is a genius, he’ll come up with an idea completely than what we had. Something we’ll call in a production meeting the night before, and he’ll go, ‘No, I think we should do it this way.’ And we listen. That’s what is fun about all this. That’s why it has come across so well the first few episodes because we are open-minded, and our ears are open. We’re willing to adjust and go with the flow.”
Alongside this collaborative workspace, their talent is also trusted to deliver on their promos without scripts. AEW World Champion Chris Jericho has previously explained how “There are no writers because that is what wrestling is.”
In a recent interview with TVInsider.com, All Elite Wrestling’s Matt and Nick Jackson discussed their recent loss to Private Party. This loss saw The Young Bucks eliminated from the tag team tournament currently underway to crown the inaugural AEW Tag Team Champions.
Nick Jackson explained that they wanted to face Private Party, knowing that it would be a huge moment for the young team:
“For them to deliver such a great performance four or five years into their professional wrestling career, it was mind-blowing. Isiah is 22-years-old for crying out loud. If I was 22 years old and was in his same spot. If I was about to perform in front of a TNT audience, I would be nervous. You couldn’t read that on both of them. I told Matt afterward that they are obviously ready to become stars.”
His brother, Matt Jackson, added that “It really felt like they belonged. We can talk and plan for months like we did. We set the whole thing up, but sometimes things don’t really happen the same…But sometimes things click.
He continued, “Story was told almost perfectly. I watched the match back, and usually I can’t stand watching my matches back because I’m a bit of a perfectionist. However, for me, with the time given, the story we were able to tell, that is almost as perfect as a match you can have. They played their roles flawlessly. I feel that night they were made. I’m really happy for them.”
Private Party is scheduled to compete against the Lucha Bros in the next round of the AEW Tag Team Tournament tonight on AEW: Dynamite.
Matt & Nick Jackson used to be known as Jeremy and Max Buck, Generation Me, in TNA Wrestling. The brothers were with the promotion from late-2009 to 2011 and then returned for a few matches in 2013 as well. Impact will be throwing a TNA-themed event over WrestleMania weekend next year and company executive Scott D’Amore invited the former Generation Me members to participate in the show.
The North’s Ethan Page noted on Twitter that he’s excited to compete on a TNA-themed event.
I remember getting “talked to” for tweeting about TNA ?
Mania weekend @IMPACTWRESTLING is BRINGING TNA BACK for one night!
I had to take my finger off the pulse for a quick second to tweet this out ?
D’Amore offered up more thoughts in subsequent Tweets.
“Ethan and Josh carry on the tradition of Team Canada proudly but with their own twist which makes it ever sweeter As for @TheMooseNation, he is a student who makes me proud and a friend for life. Hell, he’s been to my mom’s for (Canadian) Thanksgiving! It’s called ribbing man!” D’Amore said in a further Tweet.
Joey Ryan, who debuted with the promotion at Melissa Santos’ bachelorette party, also commented in the thread.
The great thing about our company is we welcome and accept all looks, sizes, and varieties of male and female athletes. No need to change a thing Joey!
With NXT premiering this past week on USA Network and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) gearing up for their debut on TNT on October 2nd, some might wonder how closely the two promotions are monitoring one another.
In an interview with talkSPORT, Matt and Nick Jackson spoke about NXT’s debut as well as Triple H’s recent comments regarding NXT’s roster.
Nick admitted that he watched some of the premiere because of the people he knows in the promotion, calling it a “fun show.”
“Matt and I, we have a lot of friends there. Candice LeRae, we have a history with so I was happy for her,” Nick said. “She was in the first match in the four-way and she did great, so I was happy for her.”
Regarding the shows going head-to-head, his brother Matt added, “I’m rooting for them, though. I want them to have a good show. Ours is just going to be better.”
The Young Bucks then turned their attention to a previous interview with Triple H. During that interview,’ The Game’ shared that he wouldn’t want to trade anyone on his NXT roster for anyone else in the world. The Jackson brothers found this statement funny because, as Nick puts it “Like, come on…we know you wanted us.”
Matt then said, “A year ago you were trying to get us all [in The Elite]! A year ago you were trying to get every one of us to come and work for you, so, that’s cool. You can say whatever. Don’t act like there was no interest in us and you wouldn’t trade for us because I know for a fact, you would.”
The Young Bucks are scheduled to face off against Private Party in the AEW Tag Team Tournament on October 9th.
JTG and Shad Gaspard, formerly known in WWE as Cryme Tyme, have challenged The Young Bucks to a matchup.
In an upload to his Instagram account, JTG shared a picture of himself and his partner with the AEW Championship. His post is most likely in response to a tweet by Shane “Hurricane” Helms, who inferred that Cryme Tyme could have been behind Chris Jericho’s missing, and now recovered, AEW Championship.
“I don’t want to point fingers or anything, buuuuuut, has anyone seen @Jtg1284 or @Shadbeast lately? Just asking. No reason.”
JTG accompanied his image, which features a speech bubble reading ‘Do we have your attention now’ with the following caption:
“First off…. Cryme Tyme are not thiefs. We’re actually outstanding citizens, @shadbeast13 and I actually Re-Rack the weights and wipe down the equipment when were done at the Gym ! ! ! We are GOOD People. We have NEVER stolen anything in our entire career. That was a rumor that got out of hand. We borrowed this title to make a message. This was not a hit on @chrisjerichofozzy But a message to AEW. If you want your precious title back…. Its simple.We want The Young Bucks ? #crymetyme#aew#maketagteamwrestlinggreatagain#TAGTEAMGOATS#WRESTLING#tagteam#tagteamwrestling“
Cody has previously stated that AEW has only revealed approximately 40% of its roster. With All Elite Wrestling debuting on TNT on October 2nd, could Cryme Tyme be a team the promotion might be interested in?
The Internet was buzzing with the news of NXT being moved to
the USA Network to compete with AEW throughout the weekend, with people revealing
their thoughts on the positive and the negative of this change.
Chris Jericho previously reacted to the news during an interview, saying that it will dilute the product more and now the Young Bucks have also reacted to this revelation.
The Bucks took on their Twitter account recently and while replying to the tweet featuring the original report on the matter, they claimed that they are not scared:
The show is going to be stretched to a 2-hour broadcast and
it’s going to air live on a weekly basis to compete with AEW’s TV show airing
on TNT in the same time slot.
However, while reports suggested that the announcement for this would be made on this week’s Raw, it didn’t turn out to be the case and there was no mention of NXT during the broadcast of the Red Branded Show.
Now we will have to wait and see if the company makes the
news official any other time this week or if we’ll have to wait more for
updates on the situation.
Cain Velasquez made his professional wrestling debut last night in Mexico City at AAA’s Triplemanía XXVII. He teamed with Cody Rhodes and Psycho Clown in winning fashion over Taurus, Texano Jr, and Killer Kross. There was a scuffle in the back between Velasquez and LA Park after the event which could lead to Cain’s next program with AAA as well.
In the post-event press, AAA seemed to setup a trios match with Cain Velasquez, Psycho Clown and Blue Demon Jr. against LA Park and his family. #TripleManiaXXVII
Tessa Blanchard also won the Reina De Reinas championship last night in Mexico City. Not long after winning the title, however, former long-time holder of the belt Taya Valkyrie got up in Blanchard’s face about it. The face-off between the two is likely building towards a future clash between them.
Members of the Elite were on-hand as well. In addition to Cody teaming with Velasquez, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks lost to the Lucha Bros and the Laredo Kid.
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Title Four Way Match Lady Maravilla & Villano III Jr. defeated Big Mami & Nino Hamburguesa (c) and Australian Suicide & Vanilla and Sammy Guevara & Scarlett Bordeaux
AAA World Trios Title Three Way Match Los Jinetes del Aire (El Hijo del Vikingo, Golden Magic & Myzteziz Jr.) defeated Nuevo Poder del Norte (Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr. & Tito Santana) and Las Fresas Salvajes (Mamba, Maximo & Pimpinela Escarlata)
Copa Triplemania Pagano defeated Aerostar and Averno and Chessman and Drago and Konnan and Daga and Electroshock and La Parkaand Monster Clown and Rey Escorpion and Vampiro and Puma King and Super Fly
AAA Reina de Reinas Championship Seven Way TLC Tessa Blanchard defeated Ayako Hamada and Chik Tormenta and Faby Apache and Lady Shani and La Hiedra and Taya Valkyrie
Cain Velasquez, Cody & Psycho Clown defeated Los Mercenarios (El Texano Jr. & Taurus) & Killer Kross
Lucha Brothers (Fenix & Pentagon Jr.) & Laredo Kid defeated The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)
Mask vs Hair Blue Demon Jr. [Mask] defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. [Hair]
?Atención?
LA Park atacó por la espalda a Blue Demon Jr. quien es asistido por Caín Velásquez y Psycho Clown. #TriplemaníaXel7
Another match has been announced by All Elite Wrestling for the premiere episode of their weekly television show on TNT.
On Wednesday, AEW revealed that Kenny Omega would team up with The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) to take on Chris Jericho and two mystery tag team partners in a six-man tag team match.
Chris Jericho is already hyping up the identities of his mystery partners. In a post on Instagram, Jericho wrote, “You’re not gonna believe who I’m planning on bringing in!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lm5rkB3aH/
AEW on TNT
The premiere of AEW on TNT will take place on Wednesday, October 2 from the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC.
Tickets for the show will go on sale at noon Eastern time on Friday, August 2. Tickets will be priced at $250, $90, $75, $50, $35, and $20.
This marks the second contest thus far announced for the show. Previously announced was Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes taking on Sammy Guevara in a singles match.
Also, Jon Moxley is slated to make an appearance although his exact role is unknown at this time.
The AEW All Out pay-per-view event will take place on Saturday, August 31st at the Sears Centre in Chicago, IL.
At this show, Jericho is slated to take on Hangman Page to crown the inaugural AEW World Heavyweight Champion. Omega will take on Moxley and The Young Bucks will battle Lucha Brothers for the AAA World Tag Team Titles in a Ladder Match.
The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) were victorious when they beat Cody & Dustin Rhodes at AEW Fight for the Fallen.
This served as the main event from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida that aired live on Bleacher Report’s streaming service. The match was booked before the inaugural AEW PPV event, Double or Nothing, in May.
Cody beat his older brother at Double or Nothing in a match that was praised by many fans. After the match, despite going through a blood bath of a contest, Cody embraced Dustin and offered him to be his tag team partner.
No matches involving all four stars have been officially announced by AEW to take place at the All Out pay-per-view event on Saturday, August 31st at the Sears Centre in Chicago, IL, which has already sold out. There was a match teased for The Young Bucks, which you can read about here.
It appears that Dustin will fully transition into his role with the promotion that launched back in January as a backstage agent.
What are your thoughts on this match and do you agree that the right stars went over in this match?
The Young Bucks teamed with Kenny Omega last night at AEW Fyter Fest last night. The trio took on and defeated the Lucha Bros and Laredo Kid. After the event, the Young Bucks were asked about potentially introducing trio titles to AEW. Matt & Nick Jackson say they don’t want to oversaturate their title belts, however.
“No, we don’t want to oversaturate the titles,’ Nick Jackson responded when asked about adding trios titles.
“We have one (championship),” Nick continued.
“I think that’s enough,” Matt added. “That’s what I would do, keep it really simple. I mean there are great 6-mans…”
“We don’t need titles for them,” Nick added.
Currently, AEW plans to crown their first World Champion at All Out, have plans for a women’s championship, and will use a tournament to crown their first tag team champions.
The Young Bucks Post Event Media Scrum
The brothers also addressed their Street Fighter themed ring-gear for the event.
“We’re big Street Fighter fans,” Matt said. “Kenny’s the biggest. I kind of dropped off after 2. Nick’s a 2 guy too, I bought him the arcade. We’re just big Ryu, Ken, and Guile fans.”
The Bucks also address time-limits being used in their matches.
“We discussed that yesterday, actually,” Matt said. “That’s one thing I think I like that people do overseas internationally. I don’t know why but it makes it seem more sporty.”
All Elite Wrestling commentator Excalibur was not impressed with Matt & Nick Jackson when he first met the brothers. Excalibur was running a training camp at the time and found the Bucks to be over-confident. He explained the meeting during a recent interview with the AEW website staff.
“I actually met the Bucks for the first time in late 2003; I was assisting Super Dragon at a class at the Rudos Dojo when “Mr. Instant Replay” and “Slick Nick” came sauntering in to class. Instead of doing the drills like everybody else, they were showing off, doing cartwheels instead of rolls, backflips instead of elbow drops, etc. I turned to Dragon and said, “Who do these assholes think they are?” Excalibur said
“Luckily our relationship has improved since then.”
At the time both brothers would have only been teenagers. They would make their debuts in PWG a few years later in 2007.
Excalibur would continue to say, however, that he doesn’t know if the Young Bucks would be the same team today had it not been for their initial over-confidence.
“The funny thing is, I don’t think the Bucks would have become who they are today without that early period of overconfidence. Some guys are like that from the outset and never realize they’re not as good as they think they are.”
The Young Bucks are scheduled to take on Cody & Dustin Rhodes at Fyter Fest on June 29th.
“Fortunately, in 2007 after the Bucks began competing in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla they had a huge realization. They found out firsthand that just maybe they weren’t the best tag team in the world, and used that as motivation. Without that, I feel like the Bucks would have remained at the level they were at in 2007, good but not great. They’ve continued to improve ever since.”
AEW will hold a tournament to crown the promotion’s first-ever tag-team champions. With tag-team wrestling set to become a major part of the company, Tony Khan appeared on Steve Austin’s podcast recently to discuss the division. Khan mentioned a tournament will be used to crown AEW’s first tag-team champions.
“We’re going to establish a great tag team division. When we launch our weekly television show in the fall, we’re going to be doing a tag team tournament that’s going to have some of the greatest tag team matches ever on TV.”
Khan continued to talk about a possible format for the tournament.
“It’s going to be a main focus of our TV. There will be teams competing to get a first-round bye in that tournament, which is a big deal. We’ll have some of the best tag teams in wrestling competing for our Tag Team Championships coming up in the fall.”
The Steve Austin Show returns tomorrow with the President and CEO of @AEWrestling, @tonykhan. We shoot the breeze about Double or Nothing and talk Pro Wrestling. iTunes and PodcastOne. pic.twitter.com/F4xRmcHeFJ
Mexican promotion AAA held their Verano de Escandalo event last night.
During the show, the Lucha Brothers, Rey Fenix and Pentagon Jr., would defeat The Young Bucks in tag team action, reclaiming the AAA World Tag Team Championships in the process.
The Young Bucks won the titles from the Lucha Brothers earlier this year. They would successfully defend the belts against Fenix and Pentagon Jr. during All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) recent show, Double Or Nothing.
Working Relationship
AEW, who have a working relationship with AAA (as well as several other promotions worldwide), posted the following to their Twitter account following the victory:
“#AndNEW @luchalibreaaa World Tag Team Champions @PENTAELZEROM and @ReyFenixMx #LuchaBros”
This relationship between the promotions will probably see the two teams continue to feud as AEW continues to grow. They are scheduled to face off in 6-man tag team action at AEW’s next event, Fyter Fest.
— Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (@luchalibreaaa) June 17, 2019
Fyter Fest
At the time of writing, the current Fyter Fest card is as follows:
Pre-Show Hardcore Match
Michael Nakazawa vs Alex Jebailey
Main Card
Cody vs Darby Allin
The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson) vs Lucha Brothers (Pentagon Jr., Rey Fenix), and TBA
Jon Moxley vs Joey Janela
Adam Page vs Jimmy Havoc vs Jungle Boy vs MJF
Christopher Daniels vs Cima
Yuka Sakazaki vs Riho vs Nyla Rose
Fyter Fest takes place on June 29th from the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is taking place alongside the Community Effort Orlando (CEO) fighting game event.
With their vision coming to fruition this Saturday night at the show they helped put together, Double Or Nothing, The Young Bucks sat down with Justin Barrasso (@JustinBarrasso) of Sports Illustrated to promote the inaugural All Elite Wrestling (AEW) pay-per-view event.
“It’s exciting to know that so many fans who may not have seen or even heard about us now have the opportunity to do so,” said Matt Jackson when referrin to the AEW on TNT show. “TNT will shine a spotlight on so many talented wrestlers who look, feel and sound so different than what casual fans might be used to.”
During the interview, Barrasso broke the news to Nick and Matt Jackson that WWE is already planning to air programming directly opposite their show. The SI journalist informed them that WWE has a Tuesday night program that is rumored to be premiering on FOX Sports 1 (FS1) after the company moves SmackDown Live from USA Network to FOX as part of their new cable television deal.
“I didn’t know any other wrestling organization was planning on airing opposite of us until this interview,” Matt said in response to the news. “So, that’s news to me!”
Nick Jackson, however, took things a bit further. Nick would go on to talk about the pro wrestling business needing competition right now, so he’s happy to hear the news.
“I love it,” said Nick. “That’s exactly what wrestling needs right now, competition. They’ve been so comfortable for the last two decades that they need something like this. This only helps the whole landscape of wrestling.”
The Young Bucks also discussed the creative process behind-the-scenes at the new upstart wrestling promotion, which also consists of creative input from other AEW executives, including Tony Khan, Cody Rhodes, Brandi Rhodes and Kenny Omega, just to name a few.
“The creative team is essentially a group chat that goes 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Matt said of the creative process in AEW. “Some people in the group think a bit more traditionally, while others think super outside the box. We always come to some sort of agreement, somewhere in the middle. It’s a recipe that works. The process has been both challenging and incredibly rewarding.”
Nick offered his brief follow-up, agreeing that the group has had a good cross-balance that has “meshed well” thus far.
“So far, it’s been pretty good,” said Nick. “We all are fantastic at separate things and, when we come together, it all meshes well.”
“I was actually very sad to see him taken off,” said Nick about the WWE legend being forced out of his advertised appearance. “Fans would’ve loved to meet him in Vegas.”
AEW: Double Or Nothing 2019 goes down from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, May 25th. The show will air live via pay-per-view, and will be available via the Bleacher Report (B/R) Live online streaming service for $49.99.
Featured below is the current advertised lineup heading into Saturday night’s AEW PPV:
AEW DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2019
Alpha vs. Omega II
* Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega
Nightmare vs. Natural
* Cody vs. Dustin
AAA Tag-Team Championships
* The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) vs. The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix)
Six Man Tag-Team Match
* SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) vs. Strong Hearts (Cima, T-Hawk & El Lindaman)
Women’s Triple-Threat Match
* Britt Baker vs. Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Rae
Tag-Team Match
* Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) vs. Angelico & Jack Evans
Six Woman Tag-Team Match
* Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki & Emi Sakura vs. Hikaru Shida, Riho Abe & Ryo Mizunami
21-Man Casino Battle Royale (“Buy-In” PRE-SHOW)
* Sonny Kiss vs. Brandon Cutler vs. Ace Romero vs. Glacier vs. Brian Pillman Jr. vs. Sunny Daze vs. MJF vs. Joey Janela vs. Dustin Thomas vs. Billy Gunn vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Michael Nakazawa vs. Jungle Boy vs. Isiah Kassidy vs. Marq Quen vs. Luchasaurus vs. Shawn Spears vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD vs. TBD
Singles Match (“Buy-In” PRE-SHOW)
* Kip Sabian vs. Sammy Guevara
With just 5 days to go until Double or Nothing, the Young Bucks released an episode of Being the Elite today.
Cody Says AEW UK PPVs Are Coming
On this week’s BTE mailbag, Cody addressed AEW PPVs possibly coming to the UK.
“AEW UK PPV, considering the most recent events, I’d say yes and I’d say hell, we were already planning on it,” Cody said. “And of course we’re going to host an actual PPV in the United Kingdom.”
He also answered a question regarding if the weekly TV show will air on ITV.
“As far as the weekly shows, you’ll have to ask the kind folks at ITV,” Cody said before winking. “Can you tell I’m winking?”
Cody Admits BTE Was Behind Anonymous Messages To Hangman Page
Cody admitted to Hangman Page this week that he’s not too big or too skinny to be in full gear. He also said that it was the producers of BTE who sent him the “juice” and had been surveying his progress.
Cody finally revealed to Page that he never needed the “secret sauce”, Page has had the ability to beat PAC this whole time. Page then adopted full gear, drove to the airport, boarded a plane, and confronted PAC at a show in Nottingham, England. The full match between the two will be posted tomorrow at 12 PM.
Brandon Cutler Added To Battle Royal
Brandon Cutler left pro-wrestling for 7-years between 2011 and 2018. He now has a contract with AEW and will compete in the Casino Battle Royal on May 25th. In addition to being a wrestler, Cutler is the Executive Content Producer for the organization. His contract signing opened up this week’s episode of Being the Elite.
Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus Confirmed For Casino Battle Royale
In addition to Cutler, both Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus were confirmed for the Casino Battle Royale as well. Luchasaurus also confirmed he’s able to talk during the episode.
Christopher Daniels No Habla Espanol
SCU’s Christopher Daniels was in Santiago, Chile for a bit this week. He noted (in Spanish) that his Spanish is quite poor, however. As a result, he was unable to say that Santiago was the worst town he’s ever been to. He later said he’d stop taking solo bookings.
MJF Was Going To Attack Dustin Rhodes With A Samurai Sword
MJF appeared to run after Dustin Rhodes with a samurai sword in this week’s episode. Rhodes turned around and noticed, however, causing MJF to stop. MJF later denied it was him.
The full episode can be viewed in the player below:
We are less than two weeks away from the Double Or Nothing
PPV but the Young Bucks are not done teasing surprise appearances for the show.
This duo was recently interviewed by WrestlingNews.co after the big announcement of their broadcasting deal with Turner Network and during the chat they discussed a number of things.
They were first asked why the two never signed with WWE and answering it, they discussed getting a serious offer from the company last year. However, then they got a better offer from Tony Khan which they couldn’t refuse.
The duo was also asked who is the one wrestler who they are
really close to signing and while they didn’t take any name, The Bucks said
that there may be a couple of stars they can’t talk about yet:
“There may be a couple that I can’t talk about yet. We
might be negotiating right now with some. We want surprises to happen and we
have a big show in 10 days, Double Or Nothing in Las Vegas … you never know
who you’re gonna see in Las Vegas.”
While the Young Bucks didn’t elaborate further and left the things to fans’ imagination, there are a number of names being thrown around as possible surprise appearance for their upcoming show.
Apart from this, they talked about providing an alternative to WWE and also hinted at their program not having a PG rating. You can check out the full interview of Bucks in the video below:
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) will present ALL IN 2 from the Sears Center outside Chicago, IL on Saturday, August 31st, according to the Wrestling Observer.
The report states the event was always going to be held in the Chicago area, but there was some preliminary talk about hosting it at the larger Allstate Arena. In the end, the promotion decided to bring All In back to the Sears Center.
“The Labor Day weekend All In 2, as it’s being called, will be on 8/31 back at the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, IL,” wrote Dave Meltzer.
This would mark the third official event under the AEW banner. Here is an updated look at the AEW live event schedule, including this rumored show:
It’s worth noting that AEW trademarked the name ALL OUT last year, so that might be the name of the show.
All In 2: August 31, 2019
There were also reports from C2E2 this weekend that the Bucks and Omega were telling people at the expo they would return to Chicago for All In 2.
The Sears Center honored its involvement in the first All In by placing a plaque outside the venue. The Young Bucks showed the plaque on a recent episode of Being the Elite.
The first All In event aired on ROH’s Honor Club for subscribers on September 1st, 2018.
By the time All In 2 rolls around, Jim Ross might be with AEW. JR provided an update on his negotiations with the promotion recently.
Matt and Nick Jackson, The Young Bucks, are set to change the world with All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Even lucrative offers from WWE couldn’t change their minds. WWE’s offer extended to an “Invasion angle,” and included the WWE Network hosting future episodes of ‘Being The Elite.’
For some, this opportunity would have been too good to turn down. Not for The Young Bucks. The reason behind their decision couldn’t have been simpler and lies in creative freedom.
“Nobody Else Can Compete With That”
Speaking with SportingNews.com, The Young Bucks would divulge the power of creative freedom that has been granted to them. They cited this autonomy as a key factor in their decision in getting involved with AEW.
Nick Jackson would state that “Right off the bat, I would say the freedom, the creative freedom. It was an outlet for us to express the way we feel pro wrestling should be done, the way we think it should be done in 2019 and the future. […] We were like ‘OK, we can should the world how we feel wrestling should be represented and this is how we feel like it should be.’”
He continued, “The other options were to stay where we were or go to WWE. For me, personally, I feel like this was the easy choice because we’re going to be with all of our friends and we’re having a good time. It feels like it pretty much what we have been doing for the last four or five years but on a bigger scale.”
His brother, Matt, would add that Tony Khan essentially gave them carte blanche control. He quoted Khan, saying, “‘Listen, hire who you want to hire and you’re in charge.’”
Matt then added, “Nobody else can compete with that. A dollar figure can’t compete with that. We’re artists and we’re creative.”
If The Young Bucks had decided to go to WWE, rather than sign with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), WWE had an interesting idea to introduce them to the company. Dave Meltzer reports on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that a full storyline was pitched to Nick and Matt Jackson before they ultimately decided to sign with AEW. The storyline was described as an “invasion angle” during WrestleMania 35 season.
Meltzer didn’t indicate that any other talent would be involved in the storyline. However, it’s hard not to assume the likes of Kenny Omega, Cody, and Adam Page weren’t involved. Of course, all of those men turned down WWE deals to sign with AEW. The Young Bucks reportedly turned down a three-year WWE deal that would’ve seen the brothers making AJ Styles money.
The deal also included a spot for “Being The Elite” on the WWE Network. If that wasn’t enough, WWE included a unique six-month window in which The Young Bucks could opt out of their deal if they were unhappy.
Speaking to CBS recently, The Young Bucks revealed WWE was very “aggressive” in their pursuit of their services:
“Yeah, we could say that their offer was very aggressive,” Nick Jackson said.
Matt Jackson admitted that, for a moment, he believed he and his brother were WWE-bound:
“I’ll tell you this. For a moment, I thought that we would probably be going to WWE. That was the closest that it’s ever come to us going there, for sure. And they were great. They were respectful, and they told us what our value was.
“I think it was really like a wake-up call for us. It was almost like, wow. It’s good to be wanted. These guys, they’re teaching us we are valuable and we’re worth this much. It was definitely something we were considering, and it was hard to turn down, because it would have been life-changing.”
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The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) recently did an interview with Brian Fritz of SportingNews.com where they talked about a wide range of topics.
This includes former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega deciding to sign with AEW (All Elite Wrestling) over WWE once his contract with NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) expired last month and was set to be a free agent.
The news of his signing was made official at the All Elite Wrestling Double Or Nothing ticket announcement party earlier this month from the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
According to The Young Bucks, his decision was something that they never feared of losing out on as he could’ve signed with WWE or NJPW.
“Nah, we knew the whole time,” Nick Jackson replied.
Matt Jackson added, “I’ll tell you this right now: Kenny was the missing piece. I talked earlier about how Tony called me originally and got on the phone with him and he told me we need Kenny. We need The Elite. I need the best wrestler in the world and I need the best tag team in the world. That was it. Originally, it started as the three of us and then Cody later came on board. We kind of had to sell him on it because, in wrestling, and he’s probably heard a million stories about startups and billionaires investing in wrestling and we all have. We finally, the three of us, got him on board and once he was on board, he was all in and here we are.”
Omega is slated to face Chris Jericho for a second time at the first official event under the AEW banner, Double or Nothing, on May 25th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Members of the Elite have been showing up at independent wrestling events recently. Cody and Hangman Page appeared at an event in Waterbury, MA recently. The Young Bucks, Page, and Cody have also appeared at Bar Wrestling in LA and DEFY Wrestling in Seattle recently.
It appears the Young Bucks could be headed to Atlanta this weekend. Nick Jackson appeared in the replies section for an event featuring SCU versus the Lucha Bros.
Kazarian made a point to capitalize the letters A, E, and W in the following post:
The Young Bucks On Independent Wrestling Event Appearances
On the most recent episode of Being the Elite, the Young Bucks revealed they are making these appearances to give back to independent wrestling. They are paying their own ways to the shows and not accepting payment from the promotions.
Matt Jackson On OWE Partnership
Matt Jackson recently took the time to speak on AEW’s partnership with Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE).
“Immediately when I saw a couple of GIFs of the OWE guys on Twitter, I was attracted,” he said. “So, I looked up more clips and did research on them. I quickly learned my old friend CIMA, who I’d made friends with years ago in Japan, was affiliated with them. That made sense right away, because the clips I watched had a real Dragon Gate feel to it.”
He continued, “Yet still, it looked and felt so original. Like a fight scene from an old Kung fu movie. I knew I’d one day work with these guys right away. I’m attracted to anything out of the ordinary.”
After making a surprise appearance at Bar Wrestling earlier this week, Young Bucks Matt & Nick Jackson showed up Saturday night at a Defy Wrestling event in Seattle, Washington.
It seems likely after this weekend that members of the Elite will be making surprise appearances for independent wrestling promotions. Before showing up in Los Angeles recently, Hangman Page, the Bucks, and Cody sent out several one-word Tweets which when placed together read “See You In Los Angeles.”
Similarly, before showing up in Seattle last night, the Young Bucks Tweeted out a picture of an iconic Seattle location:
Nick Jackson told CBS Sports recently that they were close to signing with WWE in this latest round of free agency.
“That was the closest that it’s ever come to us going there, for sure. And they were great. They were respectful, and they told us what our value was,” Nick Jackson said. “I think it was really like a wake-up call for us. It was almost like, wow. It’s good to be wanted. These guys, they’re teaching us we are valuable and we’re worth this much.”
“It was definitely something we were considering, and it was hard to turn down because it would have been life-changing.”
Members of the Elite appeared at Joey Ryan’s Bar Wrestling last night in Los Angeles. Cody said he was at the show because they were interested in signing someone to AEW.
“3 Executive Vice Presidents; Didn’t work for WCW but it’s going to work for AEW!” Cody proclaimed. “So we’re in charge of hiring and firing people, right?”
The live crowd chanted for Joey Ryan to be hired by Cody. Unfortunately, Cody revealed Joey Ryan is under contract to Lucha Underground until 2028. So, Cody announced he was signing everyone in attendance instead and then went crowd-surfing.
Video of their performance at Bar Wrestling can be viewed below:
Bar Wrestling was founded in Los Angeles in 2017 by Joey Ryan. Last night’s event was the 28th in the promotion’s history and was named “The Best City I’ve Ever Been To.” Their next event is on January 31st and is titled “Four Touchdowns In A Single Game.”
The Elite At Bar Wrestling
During the Elite’s performance, Hangman Page and Joey Ryan buried the hatched. The two had been involved in a heated rivalry last year in the build-up to All In. Page had left Ryan for dead and lived under suspicion of his murder for several months. Page posted the following to Twitter after last night’s show:
This week’s episode of Being the Elite followed several members of the AEW roster while in Jacksonville for last week’s rally. Things began with the Young Bucks welcoming Britt Baker to the new promotion.
Britt Baker Confronts The Young Bucks Over Adam Cole’s Murder
Britt Baker signed with All Elite Wrestling recently despite having a rocky relationship with the promotion’s executives, Matt & Nick Jackson. To open up this week’s episode, the Young Bucks welcomed her to the promotion. Baker then asked if they wanted to address the elephant in the room. She then began to confront the Bucks over the murder of her boyfriend, Adam Cole, but she was cut off by the Being the Elite intro.
Young Bucks Comment On Unknown Future In Japan
Matt & Nick Jackson commented on their future wrestling in Japan early on in this week’s episode.
“We’re hopping on a plane today flying business to Chicago,” Matt Jackson said. “Leaving Japan, possibly the last time, for a long time.”
Nick Jackson then noted it could the last time, they don’t know.
“We don’t know what the future will be for us here in this country,” Matt noted. He then said he hopes they can come back because they love Japan but they don’t know what the future is for them there.
Flying Economy Class Vs Private Jet
Matt Jackson pointed out that they’ve done plenty of blogs from the economy section of airplanes but now they are doing one from Tony Khan’s private jet. They noted that their whole families went through about 24 hours travel to get to the rally in Jacksonville.
Scorpio Sky Continues Candy Bar Gimmick
Scorpio Sky continued his storyline involving candy bars this week. He was seen drinking wine with Kazarian when he mentioned he had a case of the “Snickers”. This led to him packing a suitcase, getting on a plane, and traveling to an unnamed city with palm trees, checking into a hotel and barricading the door. Despite going to great lengths to prevent Matt Jackson from continuing the long-running gag, Matt came out of nowhere and handed Sky a Snickers chocolate bar.
All Elite Wrestling Rally Highlights
After Scorpio Sky ate a Snickers bar out of Matt Jackson’s hand, the episode showed clips from the All Elite Wrestling rally in Jacksonville last week. Nick Jackson announcing Double or Nothing in the MGM Grand Garden Arena was shown.
Hangman Page was seen taking some promotional photos for AEW. Cody then mentioned Page was looking jacked but not “PAC jacked.”.
Page could only utter “what?” before the camera cut away to highlights of their confrontation at the rally.
Joey Janela Is Not Good At Football
AEW roster member, Joey Janela, was shown on the Jacksonville Jaguars practice field. He threw a bad pass, not at all reminiscent of when Mr. Perfect threw a touchdown to himself.
From Jacksonville to Chicago, felt great to be on the road again this week!
Jacksonville Is The Worst Town SCU Has Ever Been In
Granted, they say this about a lot of towns but the members of SCU were not impressed with Jacksonville this week. The trio was shown on the Jacksonville Jaguars practice field as well and Christopher Daniels complained about it being humid and not being able to find a good flavor of Monster energy drink.
Cody Is Taking MJF Under His Wing
Cody told Hangman Page and the Young Bucks he’s taking MJF under his wing this week and introduced him to them. When Cody wasn’t around, however, MJF told the Bucks and Page he doesn’t plan on being their “cool friend” and said he was better than them. Once Cody came back, however, he went back to being friendly.
Reliving Chris Jericho’s Rally Appearance
Clips of Chris Jericho standing on the stage at the rally with pyro exploding all around him was shown. Parts of Jericho’s speech from the rally was also shown as well.
“It starts now and it starts forever,” Jericho said at the rally. “I’m not here to change the world, AEW is not here to change the world, we’re here to change the whole universe!”
