Last week’s Dynamite saw the culimination of months of a back and forth between the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega when the Bucks finally decided to side with Omega and completed their heel turn on Jon Moxley. Much of the story centered around the idea that the Young Bucks aren’t the same as they used to be, that they had lost an edge since the start of All Elite Wrestling.
A lot had been made about it, how the Young Bucks were no longer the same team that was shirking tradition and “killing the business” (no pun intended) while working the independent scene. Matt Jackson talked about the storyline and how there was an analogy for the transformation they had been going through while speaking to TSN.
“Maybe this is a little bit of reality and maybe this is a little bit of character, but it’s like when you’re that unsigned band and you’re working hard on the underground scene and you’ve got this great cult following and then finally that band that everybody is rooting for, they get picked up and they sign to that major label,” he said. “While they’re still putting out great music and probably selling more music than ever, I feel like sometimes those bands feel fraudulent and don’t feel like their former selves. Maybe they’ve lost that edge or maybe they’ve lost that confidence – that feeling of people rooting for you because you’re no longer the underdog.”
“Especially with us, because we’re executives at this company – we’re executive vice-presidents of AEW – and we told everybody that we helped put together the tag-team division, so it’s really hard for people to look at us as those same punk-rock Young Bucks that we were years ago, the ones that spat in the face of tradition – the ones that broke all the rules. It’s hard to break the rules when you’re the ones making the rules now.”
The Bucks have certainly established a situation where they can remind people just the team they were, are, and maybe always have been. It seems like the storyline may have helped the brothers find the same spark that saw them see so much success all around the world before AEW.
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