The Young Bucks Told Recent Signing There Was No Spot When AEW Launched
The Young Bucks informed a current AEW wrestler that when the company launched in 2019, there was no room for him.
When The Young Bucks duo of Matthew & Nicholas Jackson appear on AEW television, they refer to themselves as “The Founding Fathers” of the company.
That is true because The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Kenny Omega, and the company’s owner, Tony Khan, were the founders of AEW when the company was introduced in January 2019.
After AEW began, wrestlers signed up to fill out the roster. Many of those wrestlers were people who Rhodes, Omega, and The Young Bucks knew from their days wrestling in Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA/Impact Wrestling, and the independent wrestling scene.
Former TNA World Champion Josh Alexander recently debuted with AEW and has aligned himself with the Don Callis Family.
The Young Bucks Shut Down Josh Alexander’s AEW Request
While speaking to The Wrestling Classic on Casual Conversations, Alexander revealed that he wanted to sign with AEW when the company launched in 2019 but was told it wasn’t a good time for it. In the following years, Alexander had an excellent career in TNA and became much more experienced as a wrestler.
“Full disclosure, before I signed with TNA, I heard murmurs of this new company starting up. It didn’t have a name at the time, nothing had been announced. I had worked with the Bucks, so I reached out to one of them and was like, ‘Is this a real thing?’
They were like, ‘Yeah.’ ‘Would there be any interest in me because I would love to be part of something like this.’ They said, ‘Not right now.’
That’s when TNA came along and I went there. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to go to TNA. Being older and little wiser, I’ve come to understand that everything does happen for a reason and you have to follow the path that you’re on. It might get rocky at times, but everything works out in the end.”
The Young Bucks picked up a big win on AEW Dynamite on May 7th when they teamed up with Ricochet to beat Swerve Strickland, Mark Briscoe and Mike Bailey. Matthew Jackson got the surprising inside cradle pinfall on Swerve to win for his team.