It’s been a rough couple of weeks in AEW for the Young Bucks after losing their EVP titles at All In: Texas last month.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Matt and Nick Jackson recently sat down with Justin Barrasso of Undisputed. While discussing their new EVP-less roles in AEW, the Jacksons confirm that everything you see going on with them right now is their idea.
“My mother-in-law and kids specifically, when they tell me how embarrassed they are for me, I can’t help but laugh when I tell them that this was our idea,” Matt Jackson said. “We’re born to play these types of roles. Many wrestlers in the business prefer not to take on these types of stories, which immediately makes us more interested in doing them.
“I think there’s a charm in being self-deprecating. There’s also a skill in being funny but still being able to go in the ring at the same time. Kurt Angle is a great example of that. I think it makes you more of an all-around entertaining wrestler.”
Nick believes that if you can poke fun at yourself in pro wrestling, you probably picked the wrong profession.
“We love to make fun of ourselves,” said Nick Jackson. “If you can’t be the butt of a joke in this business sometimes, you probably picked a bad profession. We also like to reinvent our character work, and that’s exactly what this has given us. We’ve learned from guys like [Chris] Jericho who always changed with the times, and we take pride in it.”
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