The Young Bucks discuss their future as a tag team.
Throughout wrestling history, the majority of tag teams have split and done a major singles matches. Even brothers. At WWE SummerSlam, Jimmy Uso turned on Jey Uso, costing him a chance to win the Undisputed WWE Universal Title from Roman Reigns.
Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson want to buck that trend.
"We've never really had the aspiration of being singles wrestlers. That's a big thing. We always aspired to be a tag team. We saw the Hardys do it most of their career and thought, 'maybe we can do a career with each other.' Honestly, it makes it so much easier traveling with him. I don't want to do a show without him. I don't want to get on a plane by myself," Nick said on the Swerve City podcast with Swerve Strickland and Monteasy.
It was noted that most of their singles bout came when the other had a family issue come up. Nick said he did a tour in Japan in 2015 as a singles when Matt and his wife were having a child.
"When we first started our careers, we were singles wrestlers. It was one of those happenstance moments where promoters booked us as a tag team, and it clicked and everyone wanted us as a tag team. We were kind of against it at first, 'I want to wear red and call myself Mr. Instant Replay, he wants to wear blue and call himself Slick Nick. We're not The Young Bucks.' It was almost forced upon us, 'no, you're the Young Bucks.' We were getting more bookings and more buzz. It was one of those things of, why are we going against what everyone wants? It became to the point where it was undeniable, more marketability and more chances that we're going to succeed. At the time, there weren't many tag teams blowing up. 'Maybe this is our way in to get the push that we want. We're not doing it as singles, it ain't happening. Let's try this way.' It started happening. 'Let's stop fighting this and do it,'" said Matt.
"We haven't separated since," stated Nick.
Matt added, "Hopefully, we won't. I feel like every team has, ever. Would we be the first ever to have a full career?"
Nick did concede that they would like to do a singles match at some point in AEW.
"I would like to do a singles match at some point on Dynamite. I think it'd be fun and fans would like it. We don't need a feud, just a random singles match at some point. I wouldn't want to feud. Let's just have fun, one night only. I don't know how it would work, maybe in a tournament setting," said Nick.
Matt noted that they have had singles matches in the past, including in TNA, which they said was an idea they weren't on board with, but that the match was good.
They did face each other on the 200th episode of Being The Elite.
Elsewhere during the podcast, the Young Bucks discussed re-signing with AEW. You can find their full comments by clicking here.
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