The Young Bucks
The Young Bucks 
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 The Young Bucks: Nick (left) & Matt Jackson in 2014. |
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| Surname | Matthew Ronjon Massie (Matt) Nicholas Lee Massie (Nick) |
| Ring name | Generation Me
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| height | 1.78 m (matt) 1.78 m (nick) |
| Fighting weight | 78 kg (Matt) 81 kg (Nick) |
| birth | March 13, 1985 (Matt) July 28, 1989 (Nick) Hesperia , California , USA |
| Trained by |
Marty Jannetty Ron Rivera Rudo's Dojo |
| debut | August 7, 2004 |
The Young Bucks are an American wrestling - tag team consisting of the brothers Matthew Ronjon "Matt" Massie (* 13. March 1985 in Hesperia , California ) and Nicholas Lee "Nick" Massie (* 28. July 1989 in Hesperia , California). They are better known by their ring names Matt Jackson (Matthew) and Nick Jackson (Nicholas).
You are co-founder and Executive Vice Presidents of the US wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling ( AEW for short ) and appear there as a wrestler.
They are former IWGP Tag Team Champions , ROH World Tag Team Champions, and AAA World Tag Team Champions .
Wrestling career
Beginnings & Debut
Matt and Nick gained their first experience in the ring in 2001 when they took part in unprofessional backyard wrestling events. They took their first professional training at the Revolution Pro Wrestling School . In the wrestling promotion of their local trainer Ron Rivera, Revolution Pro Wrestling , they made their pro wrestling debut on August 7, 2004. Matt appeared as Fluffy The Dog in his first match , while Nick was called El Gallinero . In other events of this promotion, both appeared as the Los Gallineros tag team , Nick as Gallinero I and Matt as Gallinero II . In the same year Matt developed his own unprofessional backyard wrestling promotion and founded the professional promotion High Risk Wrestling , which he ran together with Nick and their brother Malachi. With High Risk Wrestling, they put on wrestling shows in Southern California. Her doctorate took her until 2007, when Matt and Nick could no longer fulfill their duties there due to their busy schedule.
Independent leagues
After their debut in professional wrestling, Matt and Nick played matches in various independent promotions . They first appeared as The Young Bucks on February 26, 2005 at Full Contact Wrestling . Matt called himself Mr. Instant Replay and Nick was known as Slick Nick . As Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson , they first appeared on January 14, 2007 at NWA Pro Wrestling . On June 10, 2007 they made their debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (short: PWG ). On May 14, 2008 they made their debut at Dragon Gate in Japan. On August 31, 2008 , they received the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the first time from Tyler Black and Jimmy Jacobs . They held the title for 616 days until May 9, 2010 and lost it to El Generico and Paul London . On March 27, 2009, they made their debut for Chikara Pro Wrestling . For Dragon Gate USA they first appeared on July 25, 2009. A second reign as PWG World Tag Team Champions began on April 9, 2011 with a victory over El Generico and Ricochet . This ended on December 10, 2011 with a loss to Kevin Steen and Super Dragon. On June 2, 2012 they received the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas Championship from Chuck Taylor and Johnny Gargano . They lost the title on February 10, 2013 to Scott Parker and Shane Matthews. They received the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the third time on January 12, 2013 from Brian Cage and Michael Elgin and lost it on July 26, 2014 to Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan. On June 26, 2015, they received the title for the fourth time with a win over Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee. They lost him on March 18, 2017 to Penta El Zero M and Rey Fenix . This means they held the PWG World Tag Team Championship for a total of 2052 days.
WWE (2008)
Matt played on February 19, 2008 at WWE SmackDown a match as a jobber against Chuck Palumbo . In the same role he appeared in the October 14, 2008 issue of SmackDown against The Big Show . On October 28, 2008 at ECW , Matt and Nick played imitations of Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a segment .
Ring of Honor (2009-2018)
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In the Ring of Honor TV recordings on May 29, 2009, The Young Bucks made their promotion debut with a win against the team of Brandon Day and Sal Rinauro. They made their pay-per-view debut for ROH on December 19, 2009 at Final Battle 2009 with a victory over El Generico and Kevin Steen. After signing their contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA for short ), Matt and Nick lost their ROH farewell match on January 21, 2010 in an 8-man-day match with The Briscoes (Jay and Mark Briscoe) against Davey Richards , Eddie Edwards , Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli . After that, they only gave a few guest appearances on Ring of Honor.
After leaving TNA, Matt and Nick made their ROH comeback on September 17, 2011 at the pay-per-view event Death Before Dishonor IX . There they were allowed to defeat El Generico and Kevin Steen. Between August 3, 2012 and August 3, 2013, they took a one-year break from Ring of Honor.
On March 8, 2014, they received the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time after defeating reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly ). They lost the title again to them at the pay-per-view event War Of The Worlds on May 17, 2014. They won the title a second time on September 30, 2016 at All Star Extravaganza VIII in a ladder match against the reigning ones Champions The Addiction ( Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian ) and The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ). On March 4, 2017, they lost the title to The Broken Hardys ( Brother Nero and Matt Hardy ). At Supercard Of Honor XI they got back the title for a third reign. This ended on September 22, 2017 in Death Before Dishonor XV with a defeat at The Motor City Machine Guns. During this third reign, Matt and Nick became double champions when they formed a trio called The Hung Bucks with their Bullet Club mate Hangman Page on August 20, 2017 and the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship from Dalton Castle and The Boys won. They lost this title to SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) on March 9, 2018. They received this title a second time together with Cody , another Bullet Club member, when they defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) on July 21, 2018. To this they lost the title again on November 4, 2018.
After the pay-per-view event Final Battle 2018 on December 14, 2018, where they lost a ladder match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, in which SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) also participated, to The Briscoes , Matt and Nick left the Ring of Honor.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009-2011 and 2013)
After Matt and Nick were allowed to participate in a dark match at TNA Impact Records on December 21, 2009, Total Nonstop Action Wrestlings President Dixie Carter announced on December 26, 2009 via Twitter that she had signed The Young Bucks.
They made their TV debut on Impact on January 14, 2010 under the name Generation Me . Matt was called Max Buck here , while Nick appeared as Jeremy Buck . They played their first pay-per-view event for TNA on March 21, 2010 at Destination X , when they played a match for the No. 1 challenger to the TNA World Tag Team Championship against The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin).
During their time at TNA they were unsuccessfully involved in the TNA World Tag Team Championship several times and, as an individual wrestler, also vied for the TNA X Division Championship without success . On July 10, 2011 they played their last match for TNA for the time being, when they lost together to Eric Young and Shark Boy. The next day, they asked to be released from their contracts.
When recording One Night Only: Tag Team Tournament 2013 on March 18, 2013, they made a brief TNA comeback when they participated in the tag team tournament, where they were eliminated from Team 3D . The following day while recording One Night Only: Hardcore Justice 2 , they had their last TNA match with a loss in a ladder match to Christopher Daniels and Kazarian.
New Japan Pro Wrestling (2013-2019)
Beginning with their New Japan Pro Wrestling debut on October 25, 2013, The Young Bucks appeared as a member of the Bullet Club s, a stable that at the time was made up entirely of non-Japanese. That day they met Barreta and Brian Kendrick in the Super Junior Tag Tournament . Eventually Matt and Nick won the tournament, whereupon they received a title match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship . They won this on November 9, 2013 at Power Struggle against Suzuki-gun (Taichi and TAKA Michinoku) and thus received the title for the first time. They lost the title on June 21, 2014 at Dominion to Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA). They received the title a second time on February 11, 2015 in a three-way match against the champions reDRagon and Time Splitters at The New Beginning . In Invasion Attack on April 5, 2015, they lost the title to Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero ). On May 3, 2015 they got it back from them at Wrestling Dontaku and lost it again on August 16, 2015 at G1 Climax to reDRagon. At Wrestle Kingdom 10 on January 4, 2016, they got the title back for a fourth reign from them, after a four-way match in which Roppongi Vice, Matt Sydal and Ricochet also participated. On February 11, 2016, they passed the title at The New Beginning to Matt Sydal and Ricochet.
In January 2016, Matt and Nick joined Kenny Omega to form the bullet club subgroup The Elite . In this formation they received the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship from Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano at Honor Rising: Japan on February 20, 2016 . They lost the title on April 10, 2016 in Invasion Attack. On May 3, 2016 they received it again at Wrestling Dontaku from Hiroshi Tanahashi , Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu . On June 19, Matt and Nick became IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions for the fifth time at Dominion after a four-way match against champions Matt Sydal and Ricochet as well as Roppongi Vice and reDRagon. They lost the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship on July 3, 2016 at Kizuna Road to Matt Sydal, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship was handed over to Roppongi Vice on January 4th, 2017 at Wrestle Kingdom 11. Of these, they received the title a sixth time at Dominion on June 11, 2017. They lost it at G1 Climax on August 13, 2017 to Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi. At Wrestle Kingdom 12 on January 4, 2018, they received the title for the seventh time after defeating Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH). To this they lost him again on January 28, 2018 at The New Beginning.
Together with their Bullet Club mate Marty Scurll, they again received the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship at Wrestling Dontaku on May 3, 2018 with a victory over the other Bullet Club members Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. On June 9, 2018 at Dominion, Matt and Nick won the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the first time after defeating the champions Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL and SANADA). On August 12, 2018 at G1 Climax, they lost the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship to their Bullet Club mates Taiji Ishimori, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. They also lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa (Guerrillas Of Destiny) on September 30, 2018.
In the podcast Talk is Jericho by Chris Jericho on October 30, 2018, Adam Page, Cody and Marty Scurll announced that they would join The Elite. The Elite also announced that it was leaving the Bullet Club. Matt and Nick played their last match for New Japan Pro Wrestling at Wrestle Kingdom 13 on January 4, 2019 in a match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Guerrillas Of Destiny and Los Ingobernables de Japon, who won the match.
All In (2018) and All Elite Wrestling (since 2019)
All in
In May 2017, wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer answered a question on Twitter as to whether Ring of Honor was able to sell over 10,000 tickets to an event: “Not anytime soon” (German: “Not in near future”). This statement resulted in a bet between Meltzer and ring-of-honor wrestler Cody Rhodes, who then planned his own wrestling event together with Matt and Nick, at which at least 10,000 visitors should be present. This was called All In and advertised under the slogan " The Biggest Independent Wrestling Show Ever " (German: " The greatest independent wrestling show of all time "). Held in Chicago , Illinois on September 1, 2018, All In was the first non-WWE or WCW- hosted wrestling show in the United States since 1993, attracting 11,263 people to sell over 10,000 tickets. The Young Bucks defeated the Mexican team of Bandido, Rey Fénix and Rey Mysterio in the main fight together with Kota Ibushi .
All elite wrestling
After the success of All In, the All Elite Wrestling promotion was founded on January 1st, 2019 . This was done with financial support from businessmen Tony Khan and his father, billionaire Shahid Khan . Tony Khan also took on the role of managing director. Matthew and Nicholas Massie took on the role of Executive Vice President along with Cody Runnels (Cody Rhodes) and Tyson Smith (Kenny Omega) . With the audience interest generated since All In and the financial strength retained by the Khan family, AEW is the first promotion in the USA in 18 years to question the partial monopoly of the market leader WWE.
Matt and Nick made their AEW debut at the first AEW event, Double Or Nothing, on May 25, 2019, when they successfully defended their AAA World Tag Team Championship against The Lucha Brothers (Rey Fenix and Pentagon Jr.). They had previously won this title from them on March 16, 2019 at the Mexican AEW partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide . On June 16, 2019, they returned the title at AAA Verano De Escandalo 2019 to The Lucha Brothers.
Titles and awards
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Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Tag Team of the Year (2017 and 2018)
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Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Tag Team of the Year (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018)
- Best Wrestling Maneuver (2009 for More Bang for Your Buck and 2014 for Meltzer Driver )
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New Japan Pro Wrestling
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (7 ×)
- NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship (2 × with Kenny Omega and 1 × with Marty Scurll)
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Ring of Honor
- ROH World Tag Team Championship (3 ×)
- ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 × with Cody and 1 × with Hangman Page )
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Pro wrestling guerrilla
- PWG World Tag Team Championship (4 ×)
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Chikara Pro Wrestling
- CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas Championship (1 ×)
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Alpha Omega Wrestling
- AOW Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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Alternative wrestling show
- AWS Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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Dragon Gate USA
- Open The United Gate Championship (1 ×)
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Dramatic Dream Team
- DDT Iron Man Heavy Metal Championship (1 ×)
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Empire Wrestling Federation
- EWF Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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Family wrestling entertainment
- FWE Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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Future Stars Of Wrestling
- FSW Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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House of Glory
- HOG Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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Insane Wrestling League
- IWL Tag Team Championship (3 ×)
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Squared Circle Wrestling
- 2CW Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
- SCW Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
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World Series Wrestling
- WSW Tag Team Championship (1 ×)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g The Young Bucks profile on genickbruch.com, accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ a b RevPro Gathering Of The Tribes on cagematch.net, accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ a b AEW Talent Preview - The Young Bucks on prowrestlingpost.com (English), accessed on January 16, 2020.
- ↑ High Risk Wrestling on cagematch.net, accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ FCW Debut Show on cagematch.net, accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ NWA Pro Wrestling Showcase TV Taping on cagematch.net, accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ Dixie Carter on twitter.com (English), accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ Cody & The Young Bucks planning to self-finance 10,000 seat show at f4wonline.com (English), accessed January 16, 2020.
- ↑ Ex-WWE star Cody Rhodes creates mega wrestling event on ran.de, accessed on January 16, 2020.
- ↑ This is the new WWE rival AEW on sport1.de, accessed on January 16, 2020.
- ↑ Next WWE strike against AEW? on sport1.de, accessed on January 16, 2020.
Web links
- The Young Bucks profile on cagematch.net
- The Young Bucks profile on genickbruch.com