The Young Bucks are an American professional wrestling tag team and promoters, consisting of brothers Matthew and Nicholas Massie, who are known by their ring names Matt and Nick Jackson, respectively.
55 Facts About The Young Bucks
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The Young Bucks are known for their work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor, where they became prominent members of the NJPW faction Bullet Club; after a "civil war" in 2018, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, "Hangman" Adam Page, Marty Scurll, and Cody Rhodes formed The Elite.
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The Young Bucks ran shows twice a month and helped Matt and Nick learn their craft.
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That night The Young Bucks were defeated by the Kaos and Mongol, the Santino Brothers.
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The Young Bucks filmed their very first matches for the NWA on Maverick Television on November 7,2006, when they were defeated by Karl Anderson and Joey Ryan.
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The Young Bucks debuted for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla on June 10,2007, in Burbank, California at Roger Dorn Night, losing to Arrogance.
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Around that time, after the Young Bucks started touring the World, the PWG crowds started turning on them.
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On November 21, during the second night of the 2009 Battle of Los Angeles, The Young Bucks retained their title over Kevin Steen and El Generico and afterwards turned heel by aligning themselves with Brian Kendrick and attacking the new PWG World Champion Kenny Omega.
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On January 30,2010, at Kurt Russellmania, the first PWG show since the The Young Bucks had signed contracts with TNA Wrestling, Matt and Nick announced that from now on they would be known by their TNA names, Max and Jeremy of Generation Me.
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On May 9, the Young Bucks entered the 2010 DDT4 tournament and were for the second year in a row set to defend the Tag Team Championship three times in one night.
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The The Young Bucks defeated Johnny Goodtime and Jerome Robinson in the first round and the Cutler Brothers in the semifinals of the tournament.
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The Young Bucks received their shot on April 9,2011, when they defeated El Generico and Ricochet, who filled in for Paul London who was unable to appear at the event, to regain the PWG World Tag Team Championship.
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On January 12,2013, The Young Bucks entered the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament, defeating the Inner City Machine Guns in their opening match.
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Later that same event, The Young Bucks defeated the Unbreakable F'n Machines in their semifinal match to capture the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the third time.
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The Young Bucks lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship to Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan in a Guerrilla Warfare match on July 27,2014.
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On June 26,2015, The Young Bucks defeated Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the fourth time, following outside interference from PWG World Champion Roderick Strong.
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On March 18,2017, The Young Bucks lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship to Penta el Zero M and Rey Fenix in a three-way match, involving Matt Sydal and Ricochet.
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The Young Bucks made their debut for Dragon Gate in Tokyo, Japan at the Korakuen Hall on May 14,2008, in a match where they were defeated by Susumu Yokosuka and Ryo Saito.
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On September 5,2008, the Young Bucks took part in Dragon Gate's first show in the United States, held in Los Angeles, California, where they unsuccessfully challenged Saito and Yokosuka for the Open the Twin Gate Championship.
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The Young Bucks appeared in a similar role on the October 17,2008, episode of SmackDown, this time losing to Big Show in an exhibition Last Man Standing match after going through a table.
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The Young Bucks made their Chikara debuts on March 27,2009, teaming up with El Generico to form Team PWG in the annual King of Trios tournament.
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The Young Bucks returned to Chikara on April 23,2010, at the 2010 King of Trios, where they teamed up with their brother Malachi as the Jackson 3.
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The Young Bucks returned to Chikara in late April 2012, first defeating Arik Cannon and Darin Corbin in a regular tag team match on April 28, and then defeating the Batiri, Bruderschaft des Kreuzes, and the Spectral Envoy in a four-way elimination match on April 29 to earn the right to challenge for the Campeonatos de Parejas.
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On September 14, The Young Bucks entered the 2012 King of Trios, teaming with Mike Bennett as Team Ring of Honor and defeating the Faces of Pain in their first round match.
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On February 10,2013, The Young Bucks lost the Campeonatos de Parejas to 3.0, ending their reign at 253 days and three successful defenses.
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On May 18, The Young Bucks returned to Chikara to take part in the 2013 Tag World Grand Prix.
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On December 19 at Final Battle 2009, ROH's first live pay-per-view, the Young Bucks picked up another big win, this time over former ROH World Tag Team Champions Kevin Steen and El Generico.
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At the pay-per-view The Young Bucks defeated Future Shock and the Bravado Brothers in a three-way elimination match.
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On December 23 at Final Battle 2011, The Young Bucks won a four team gauntlet match to earn a shot at the ROH World Tag Team Championship.
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On March 8,2014, the Young Bucks defeated reDRagon to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time.
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On September 30,2016, The Young Bucks defeated The Addiction and The Motor City Machine Guns in a three-way Ladder War VI at All Star Extravaganza VIII to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the second time.
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On March 4,2017, The Young Bucks lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to The Hardys.
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On July 25,2009, the Young Bucks appeared on Dragon Gate USA's first pay-per-view Enter the Dragon, where they defeated the Warriors-5 of Cima and Susumu Yokosuka.
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The Young Bucks returned to the promotion on January 27,2012, defeating Chuck Taylor and Scorpio Sky in a tag team match.
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At the renamed Impact Wrestling's Against All Odds event on June 12,2021, The Young Bucks made a one-off appearance for the promotion as part of the working relationship between Impact and All Elite Wrestling.
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On October 15,2013, NJPW announced that The Young Bucks would be making their debuts for the promotion in the 2013 Super Jr.
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On November 6, The Young Bucks first defeated Gedo and Jado in the semifinals and then another Chaos team, the Forever Hooligans, in the final to win the 2013 Super Jr.
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The Young Bucks returned to New Japan on January 4,2014, at Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome, where they made their first successful title defense in a four-way match against the Forever Hooligans, Suzuki-gun and Time Splitters.
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Three days later at Invasion Attack 2014, The Young Bucks successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Ibushi and El Desperado.
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On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2014, The Young Bucks made their fourth successful title defense against the Forever Hooligans.
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From May 30 to June 6, The Young Bucks took part in the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, where they wrestled in separate blocks.
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In November, The Young Bucks made it to the final of the 2014 Super Jr.
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On January 4,2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome, The Young Bucks unsuccessfully challenged reDRagon for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a four-way match involving Forever Hooligans and Time Splitters.
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The Young Bucks regained the title from Roppongi Vice on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2015 in a three-way match, involving reDRagon.
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The Young Bucks won the title for the record-tying fourth time in a four-way match on January 4,2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome.
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On January 4,2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, The Young Bucks lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to Roppongi Vice.
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On January 4,2018, The Young Bucks defeated Roppongi 3K at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the seventh time.
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On February 24,2018, The Young Bucks announced that they would move up to New Japan's heavyweight tag team division.
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At Wrestle Kingdom 13, The Young Bucks participated in a 3 way match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship against the champions Guerrillas of Destiny and Los Ingobernables de Japon, but lost the match.
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On January 2,2019, Cody and The Young Bucks officially signed five-year contracts with the promotion, serving as AEW's executive vice presidents, while entrepreneur, football executive and longtime wrestling fan Tony Khan was announced as the president of the company.
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Later that same night, the The Young Bucks defeated the Lucha Brothers to win their titles, this being their first championship in Mexico.
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At Bash at the Beach on January 15,2020, 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 Adam Page and Kenny Omega.
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On November 7,2020, at Full Gear, The Young Bucks defeated FTR to win their first AEW Tag Team Championship.
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Two weeks later, on night 1 of the New Year's Smash episode of Dynamite, The Young Bucks joined AEW World Champion Kenny Omega and Impact World Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers in throwing the Too-Sweet sign, suggesting a reunion between the five.
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The Young Bucks would regain the AEW Tag Team Championship in a ladder match against Jurassic Express on the June 15,2022, special edition of AEW Road Rager, making them the first two-time champions.