The Young Bucks

 

The Young Bucks

 

Matthew Jackson 

Height: 5 ft. 10 in (1.78 m)

Weight: 172 lb (78 kg)

From: Rancho Cucamonga, California

Pro Debut: August 8th, 2004

AEW Debut:  May 25th, 2019

Nicholas Jackson

Height: 5 ft. 10 in (1.78 m)

Weight: 178 lb (81 kg)

From: Rancho Cucamonga, California

Pro Debut: August 8th, 2004

AEW Debut: May 25th, 2019

AEW Accomplishments:

• All Elite Wrestling:
• Founding Fathers of All Elite Wrestling (2019)
• Executive Vice Presidents of AEW (2019-present)
• AEW World Tag Team Championship (3 times; current)
• AEW World Trios Championship ((2 times; inaugural) - with Kenny Omega
• AEW World Trios Championship Tournament (2022) - with Kenny Omega 
• Casino Tag Team Royale Winner (2022)
• Dynamite Award:
• LOL Award (2021) - The Young Bucks kick MJF into a pool - Chris Jericho's Rock 'N' Wrestling Rager at Sea (January 2022)
• Bleacher Report PPV Moment of the Year (2021) - Stadium Stampede match (The Elite vs. The Inner Circle) at AEW Double or Nothing 2020
• Best Tag Team Brawl (2022) - Young Bucks vs. Lucha Brothers, Steel Cage Match 
• Alternative Wrestling Show:
• AWS Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• CHIKARA: 
• Campeonatos de Parejas (1 time)
• DDT Pro-Wrestling:
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
• Demand Lucha: 
• Royal Canadian Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Dragon Gate USA:
• Open the United Gate Championship (1 time)
• Empire Wrestling Federation:
• EWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Family Wrestling Entertainment:
• FWE Tag Team Championship (1 time, final)
• Future Stars of Wrestling:
• FSW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• High Risk Wrestling:
• HRW Heavyweight Championship (3 times) - Matt Jackson (1) and Nick Jackson (2)
• HRW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Sole Survivor Tournament Winner (2006) - Nick Jackson
• House of Glory:
• HOG Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• HOG Tag Team Championship Tournament Winners (2013)
• Insane Wrestling League: 
• IWL Tag Team Championship (3 times)
• Pro Wrestling Destination: 
• PWD Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Pro Wrestling Guerrilla:
• PWG World Tag Team Championship (4 times)
• Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Championship Tournament (2009, 2011, 2013)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated: 
• Match of the Year (2020) - vs. Kenny Omega and "Hangman" Adam Page at AEW Revolution 2020
• Tag Team Match of the Year (2017, 2018, 2021)
• Ranked Nick Jackson No. 38 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018
• Ranked Matt Jackson No. 40 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018
• Ranked The Young Bucks No. 1 of the top 50 Tag Teams in the PWI Tag Team 50 in 2021
• Pro Wrestling LIVE:
• PWL Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide:
• AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• New Japan Pro Wrestling:
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (7 times)
• IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Kenny Omega (2) and Marty Scrull (1)
• Super Jr. Tag Tournament Winners (2013)
• Ring of Honor:
• ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with "Hangman" Adam Page (2) and Cody Rhodes (1)
• ROH World Tag Team Championship (3 times)
• ROH Year-End Award (1 time):
• Tag Team of the Year (2017)
• SoCal Uncensored:
• Southern California Match of the Year (2011) - vs. Kevin Steen and Super Dragon at PWG Fear
• Southern California Match of the Year (2012) - vs. Future Shock (Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly) and Super Smash Bros. (Player Uno and Stupefied) at PWG Threemendous
• Southern California Match of the Year (2013) - vs. DojoBros (Eddie Edwards and Roderick Strong) and Inner City Machine Guns (Rich Swann and Ricochet) at PWG Ten
• Southern California Match of the Year (2016) - with Adam Cole vs. Matt Sydal, Ricochet and Will Ospreay at PWG Battle of Los Angeles
• Southern California Match of the Year (2018) - vs. Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) at NJPW Strong Style Evolved
• Southern California Tag Team of the Year (2007-2009, 2014-2015)
• Squared Circle Wrestling:
• 2CW Tag Team Championship (1 time, final)
• World Series Wrestling:
• WSW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
• WSW Tag Team Championship Tournament Winners (2018)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter: 
• Best Wrestling Maneuver (2009) More Bang for Your Buck
• Best Wrestling Maneuver (2014) Meltzer Driver
• Tag Team of the Year (2014-2018, 2020, 2021)
• Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2020) vs. Kenny Omega and "Hangman" Adam Page at AEW Revolution 2020
• Pro Wrestling Match of the Year (2021) vs. the Lucha Brothers at ALL OUT 2021
• Best Pro Wrestling Book (2020) Killing the Business 
• Tag Team of the Decade (2010s) 

Fun Fact: The Young Bucks are, at the time of writing, the only duo in history to have won all 3 of New Japan's Tag Team Championships. By mid-2018, they had won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships 7 times and the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Championships 3 times. Then in June 2018 at Dominion in Osaka, The Bucks won their 1 and only IWGP Tag Team Championship, completing the triple crown.

AEW History:

 In May 2017, wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer suggested that an independent wrestling show would be unable to sell out a ten thousand seat arena in the United States. The Young Bucks , along with Cody Rhodes, challenged the idea by planning a show specifically for the purposes of drawing ten thousand fans. In May 2018, it was announced that the show would be named "ALL IN," and would be held on September 1st, 2018 at the Sears Centre Arena, including many popular wrestlers from various promotions such as Ring of Honor Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling and the independent circuit. When ALL IN was announced on May 13th, tickets sold out in 30 minutes. At the event, The Young Bucks along with Kota Ibushi defeated Bandido, Rey Fenix and Rey Mysterio in the main event.

On November 5th, 2018, several trademarks were filed in Jacksonville, Florida that indicated the launch of All Elite Wrestling. In December 2018, Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks and several other wrestlers left Ring of Honor Wrestling. The official announcement of AEW's creation came at midnight Pacific Time on January 1st, 2019 in an episode of Being the Elite, a YouTube web series created-by and featuring The Elite. Also announced in the episode was "Double or Nothing", AEW's inaugural event and sequel to All Elite. On January 1st, 2019, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks officially signed five-year contracts with the promotion, serving as AEW executive vice presidents, while entrepreneur, football executive and longtime wrestling fan Tony Khan was announced as the president of the company. On January 8th, 2019, the company held its inaugural press conference on the forecourt of the TIAA Bank Field, where they announced talents that were going to perform as part of the promotion including Joey Janela, Christopher Daniels, Scorpio Sky, PAC, Frankie Kazarian and Chris Jericho. They also announced a working relationship with Chinese professional wrestling promotion Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE), an organization founded by Cima.

On March 16th, 2019, the Bucks made their debut at the Mexican promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) as part of partnership with All Elite Wrestling at the Rey de Reyes event where they challenged the newly crowned AAA World Tag Team Champions the Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) who defeated Los Mercenarios (El Texano, Jr. and Rey Escorpion) Later that same night, the Bucks defeated the Lucha Brothers to win their titles, this being their first championship in Mexico. They lost the titles back to the Lucha Brothers at Verano de Escandalo in June.

At AEW's inaugural event, Double or Nothing 2019 on May 25th, The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defeated the Lucha Brothers. The following month at the Fyter Fest event, The Young Bucks teamed with Kenny Omega to defeat the Lucha Brothers and Laredo Kid in a six-man tag team match. They then followed this with a win over Cody Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes at Fight for the Fallen on July 13th. At ALL OUT on August 31st, The Young  Bucks lost in a rematch for the AAA World Tag Team Championship to the Lucha Brothers in a ladder match, ending their feud.)

On the premiere episode of AEW Dynamite on October 2nd, 2019, The Young Bucks teamed with Kenny Omega in a losing effort to Chris Jericho, Santana and Ortiz. After the match, The Young Bucks, Omega and Cody Rhodes were beaten down by Jericho, Santana, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara and the debuting Jake Hager, marking the debut of The Inner Circle, leading to a rivalry with The Elite. The team then entered into a tournament to crown the inaugural AEW World Tag Team Champions but were eliminated by Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) in the first round. The Young Bucks subsequently resumed their feud with The Inner Circle, leading to a match between The Young Bucks and Santana and Ortiz being arranged for Full Gear 2019, which Santana and Ortiz won. The feud between the two teams concluded on the December 11th episode of Dynamite, when The Young Bucks defeated Santana and Ortiz in a street fight tag team match. 

At the Bash at the Beach edition of Dynamite on January 15th, 2020, The Young Bucks competed in a four-way tag team match to determine the number one contenders for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, but the match was won by "Hangman" Adam Page and Kenny Omega. On the February 19th episode of Dynamite, The Young Bucks won a tag team battle royale for the right to face Page and Omega for the championship at the Revolution 2020 pay-per-view event on February 29th, but failed to win after Page pinned Matt Jackson. On the March 11th episode of Dynamite, Nick Jackson was given a kayfabe injury by the hands of the Inner Circle; in reality, he had taken paternity leave for the birth of his third child. Shortly after Double or Nothing, they returned and on an episode of Dynamite, where they challenged FTR for a shot at the AEW Tag Team Championship, "Hangman" Adam Page interfering and costing them the title shot, kicking him out of The Elite. At ALL OUT 2020, they faced The Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) and won, expressing a new attitude. On the September 9th episode of Dynamite, they superkicked Alex Marvez, turning tweener in the process.

On November 7th, 2020, at Full Gear, The Young Bucks defeated FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) to win their first AEW World Tag Team Championship. Had they lost the match, they would've been banned from wrestling for future AEW World Tag Team Championships. They won the titles after Matt Jackson avoided a springboard 450 splash by Cash Wheeler and hit a superkick for the pinfall win. On the December 25th episode of Dynamite, they successfully defended the titles against The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster). 

Super Elite, Inaugural AEW World Trios Champions and Suspension (2021-present):

Two weeks later, on Night 1 of the New Year's Smash edition of Dynamite, The Young Bucks joined AEW World Champion Kenny Omega and Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows) in throwing the Too-Sweet sign, suggesting a reunion between the five. However on January 20th, they refused to be bought by Don Callis while still being Omega's friends, thus making The Young Bucks become tweeners in the process. This would only last about 2 months though, as after weeks of verbal insults from Callis, The Young Bucks would be forced to choose whether to join Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers or not. At first, it appeared as though The Young Bucks would choose not to align with Omega, however on the April 7th episode of Dynamite, The Young Bucks would ultimately choose to join Omega, turning them heels in the process for the first time in their AEW careers. They would further cement their heel turn in the days that followed on social media, and on the April 14th episode of Dynamite, where they displayed many heelish tactics during their match against Death Triangle (PAC and Rey Fenix) including removing the luchador mask off of Rey Fenix. Ultimately, it would be the Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) who would end the Bucks' championship reign at 302 days, defeating them via pinfall in a Steel Cage match at ALL OUT 2021 on September 5th of that year. The Young Bucks would regain the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a Ladder Match  against Jurassic Express on the June 15th, 2020 special Road Rager edition of Dynamite, making them the first two-time champions. They would loose the titles to Swerve In Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) in a match also involving Team Taz's Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs, ending their second reign at just 28 days. 

On the August 3rd, 2022 edition of Dynamite, The Young Bucks were turned on by Adam Cole and reDRagon (Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish), thus being saved by "Hangman" Adam Page and turning them faces in the process. The following week in a backstage segment, The Young Bucks thanked Page for saving them and asked him if he would be their partner in the upcoming AEW World Trios Championship Tournament, however Page politely refused due to his alliance with The Dark Order, who were also competing in the tournament. During the week leading up to the next Dynamite, in which the Bucks had their first trios tournament match, the Bucks claimed they found a partner and teased who it was on their Twitter account. On the August 17th edition of Dynamite, the mystery partner was revealed to be the returning Kenny Omega, reforming the original Elite trio and the group went on to defeat La Faccion Ingobernable's Andrade El Idolo, Rush and Dragon Lee, to advance to the semi-final round, and the United Empire to advance to the final round. At AEW ALL OUT 2022, The Elite defeated "Hangman" Adam Page and The Dark Order to become the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions. 

After the AEW ALL OUT 2022 post-show media scrum, the Bucks and Omega confronted AEW World Champion CM Punk  backstage in retaliation to Punk's harsh statements about them as EVPs. Multiple publications such as Fightful, PWInsider and Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that after Punk's comments, a shoot backstage fight occurred between the Bucks, Omega, Punk and AEW coach Ace Steel (Punk's longtime friend and trainer). On the September 7th episode of AEW Dynamite, Khan announced that the trios titles had been vacated, along with Punk's AEW World Championship./ 

The Young Bucks and Omega would make their AEW returns on November 19th at Full Gear 2022, challenging Death Triangle (PAC, Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix), for the AEW World Trios Championship, in a losing effort. This match was announced to be the first in a Best of Seven series, between the two teams. The series concluded in a Escalera De La Muerte Ladder Match, on the January 11th edition of Dynamite, where The Elite was victorious, winning the Best of Seven series 4-3 and in-turn regaining the AEW World Trios Championships. The Elite made successful defenses against The Firm and AR Fox and Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin). On March 5th at AEW Revolution 2023, The Elite lost the AEW World Trios Championships to The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King and Buddy Matthews), ending their second reign at 53 days. The Elite attempted to regain the titles 10 days later on Dynamite, in a Three-Way Trios Match against House of Black and The Jericho Appreciation Society, but failed, when House of Black retained the titles. In the aftermath of the match, the Blackpool Combat Club and "Hangman" Adam Page brawled towards ringside, causing The Elite to stand alongside their former stablemate Page, although as the Blackpool Combat Club fled, Omega refused to further embrace Page. This storyline led to Double or Nothing 2023 where The Elite reunited to face the Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta) in the second-ever Anarchy in the Arena match, which they would end up loosing when Konosuke Takeshita turned on The Elite and cost them the match. In the lead up to Double or Nothing, during a cage match between Omega and Moxley, longtime manager of The Elite, Don Callis turned on Omega and would eventually show he was siding with Blackpool Combat Club and was the reason why Konosuke Takeshita turned on The Elite at Double or Nothing. 

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