History Wrestling / TheYoungBucks

* NiceShoes: Following their heel turn in AEW, The Bucks have taken to wearing a different pair of outlandishly expensive sneakers every week.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: Their 2021 FaceHeelTurn in AEW saw them ditching their signature tassels (emphasized in a promo by showing them cutting off the tassels with a pair of scissors) and switching out their colorful ring gear in favor of more monochromatic tights. Furthermore, they've also taken to flaunting expensive sneakers every week.

** Their current union with Kenny Omega in 2016 has taken this UpToEleven, with the three outright declaring themselves the Elite, both of Bullet Club and in general, after removing AJ Styles from the equation.

* IHaveTheHighGround: Not their entire offense, but a good portion of it.
** Two-thirds of their most frequent finisher, More Bang For Your Buck, is one brother hitting a 450 splash on their opponent followed immediately by the other hitting a moonsault and then going for the pin.
** Whenever they break out the Meltzer Driver, fans get to see one of the brothers do a 450 splash flip to help the other brother spike their opponent in a kneeling piledriver.

The Young Bucks are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of real life brothers Matt and Nick Jackson (real names Matthew and Nicholas Massie) from the suburbs of southern California. Trained by Marty Jannetty and Ron Rivera, they stand out due to their ever-constant boyish looks and mannerisms and their colorful attire, as well as their aerodynamic wrestling style, being known for their use of superkicks (dubbed the "superkick party") and high flying moves in their matches. They are most known for their appearances in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla, though they have also competed in Wrestling/DragonGate (both Japan and USA) and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, and from 2013 to 2019 they were also mainstays of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as members of its top heel faction, the Wrestling/BulletClub, from which they subsequently branched out as Wrestling/TheElite alongside Wrestling/KennyOmega and Wrestling/CodyRhodes. From 2010 to 2011 they had a short run in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] under the team name Generation Me, using the ring names Max and Jeremy Buck respectively, where they were best known for their matches against the Motor City Machine Guns.

** The Motor City Machine Guns went from {{The Rival}}s[=/=]{{Worthy Opponent}}s to this when Generation Me decided to turn viciously heel on them.

* FearfulSymmetry: The first night main event at ''Supercard Of Honor X'' saw Matt Jackson and Chris Sabin unable to start the match off because they kept trying the same thing, getting frustrated and tagging out. It continued with Alex Shelley and Nick, until Nick [[IShallTauntYou started goofing off]], which successfully threw the Motor City Machine Guns off their game.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Does the name "Generation Me" carry a hint or two? Even outside of that, they are some of the most vain "good Christian boys" we will see in pro wrestling. TNA even tried to portray that they are so self-centered they would sell each other out to get ahead in a heartbeat, and even teased a split between both them and their arch-rivals the Motor City Machineguns when having both teams compete more in the X-Division than in the tag team ranks. This makes no sense seeing the way they function as pretty much one person in two when acting as a team.

** The Motor City Machine Guns may have been behind the conspiracy to bring down The Knights of the Rising Dawn, but The Addiction (Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian) frequently looked past them in favor of attacking the Young Bucks. Even though it was two years ago they were still upset about being the first victims of the Meltzer Driver.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: A strange inversion. Max and Jeremy of Generation Me were created as identities that TNA could trademark, but they still felt the need to allude to the Young Bucks by eventually adding "Buck" as the characters' surname.

* OlderThanTheyLook: As of this writing (December 2021), The Young Bucks have been in wrestling for 17 years, are respectively 36 and 32 (born in March 1985 and July 1989), have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for college kids about to attend a rave. A famous backstage anecdote involves Wrestling/WilliamRegal watching a tryout match between The Bucks and Wrestling/TheUsos, and being so impressed with the Bucks that he wanted to offer them a WWE contract on the spot, but he decided against it because he thought they were underage.

* OlderThanTheyLook: As of this writing (December 2021), The Young Bucks have been in wrestling for 17 years, are respectively 36 and 32 (born in March 1985 and July 1989), have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for college kids about to attend a rave. A famous backstage anecdote involves Wrestling/WilliamRegal watching a tryout match between The Bucks and Wrestling/TheUsos, and being so impressed with the Bucks that he wanted to offer them a WWE contract on the spot, but decided not to because he thought they were still underage teenagers.

* OlderThanTheyLook: As of this writing (December 2021), The Young Bucks have been in wrestling for 17 years, are respectively 36 and 32 (born in March 1985 and July 1989), have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for college kids about to attend a rave.

** Have been this with both Steen and Cole in Mount Rushmore.

* OlderThanTheyLook: As of this writing (October 2021), The Young Bucks have been in wrestling for 17 years, are respectively 36 and 32 (born in March 1985 and July 1989), have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for college kids about to attend a rave.

*** 2015—The Bullet Club with Wrestling/AJStyles.

** After returning to ROH following a stint in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, this is basically their gimmick. They have very high opinions of themselves, [[MythologyGag refuse to shake hands with anybody but each other]], and give themselves sole credit for selling all the tickets to the shows.(they did shake with the Briscoes after they were saved from an Addiction beating though)

* WouldHitAGirl: Had absolutely no problem superkicking Wrestling/TaelerHendrix or bloodying Candice [=LeRae=] up.

* WrestlingFamily: Besides each other, younger brother Malachi wrestles as well. They also have a cousin, Tabitha Seelig, who wrestles as Tab Jackson.

** The Wrestling/LuchaBrothers and The Bucks started feuding after the Bucks won the AAA Tag Titles and they've been finding ways to stick their nose in each other's business ever since.

* OlderThanTheyLook: As of this writing (May 2021), The Young Bucks are approaching 17 years in wrestling, respectively 36 and 31 (born in March 1985 and July 1989), have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for college kids about to attend a rave.

They and fellow Bullet Club member Wrestling/CodyRhodes made headlines by promoting the spectacularly successful ''All In'' indie wrestling event in September 1, 2018, the first American wrestling event not run by either Wrestling/{{WWE}} or Wrestling/{{WCW}} to draw more than 10,000 since 1993. On January 1, 2019, they and Rhodes were announced as the first wrestlers on the roster of the new promotion Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, as well as producers for the promotion. AEW is financially backed by Shad and Tony Khan, principal owners of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL's]] Jacksonville Jaguars.

* DumbStruck: Their reaction at ''Final Battle'' when Broken Matt [[TheCracker was projected on an ROH jumbotron]] following their successful title retention. Matt Jackson looked as if it was taking long to register and Nick had a look of disbelief.

* BigGood: The Elite are framed as the main heroic faction of ''Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling'' of course, so whoever is "in charge" of The Elite at the moment tends to be framed as such.

** At the end of episode 182 of BTE, The Inner Circle attacked The Bucks and proceded to film their own show "Being the Inner Circle."

* OlderThanTheyLook: The Young Bucks are eleven-year wrestling veterans, 31 and 26 years old respectively, have both gotten married to womanly wives and become fathers. But if you saw Matt and Nick Jackson on the streets of Hesperia, California without first knowing who they are, you'd probably mistake them for high school kids about to attend a rave.
* PopularityPower: While Adam Cole was trying to tell Matt Taven and Mike Bennett what they needed to do to defeat War Machine, Bobby Fish interrupted him to take his case to ROH match maker Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness for a reDRagon vs. The Kingdom match. The Young Bucks then tried to go over Fish's head by taking their case to the fans, who naturally preferred to see them. It only half worked, as [=McGuinness=] refused to remove reDRagon from the match but did add the Bucks, making it a triple threat.

* SignatureMove: Superkick Party, anyone? Even then, it's one of many.

** They are the performers vs reDRagon, as Kyle O'Reilly is a mixed martial arts enthusiast and Bobby Fish is a former Muy Thai and kick boxing competitor who has also dabbled in mixed martial arts. Ironically reDRagon's MMA friends such as Filthy Tom Lawlor have been known to run interference in the times the Bucks manage to overwhelm them.

* TheAce: They're regarded by many as the best tag team in the world and one of the greatest tag teams of all time.
* TheRival
** They've faced Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick (AKA The Hooligans) in Big Time Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, Family Wrestling Entertainment, House of Hardcore and House of Glory. For better or worse they are associated with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to the Jannetty trained Bucks, which is partially why encounters keep happening.
** The Motor City Machine Guns may have been behind the conspiracy to bring down The Knights of the Rising Dawn, but The Addiction (Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian) frequently looked past them in favor of attacking the Young Bucks. Even though it was two years ago they were still upset about being the first victims of the Meltzer Driver.

[[caption-width-right:350:SUPERKICK PARTY!!!]]

** They are the performers vs FTR to the point that their rivalry has even been compared to the legendary Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the '80s.

** They are the performers vs FTR, as Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler strictly use traditional tag team wrestling moves and psychology (and constantly insult The Bucks and other tag teams on the AEW roster for not doing the same).

* DreamTeam: The Elite are this with their founding (and constant) members being The Bucks (widely viewed as one of the best ''tag teams'' of world since the new 2010s, sometimes the best).''Wrestling/KennyOmega'' (widely viewed as one of the best wrestlers of the world since the 2010s, sometimes as ''the'' best).

The Young Bucks are a {{professional wrestling}} {{tag team}} consisting of real life brothers Matt and Nick Jackson (real names Matthew and Nicholas Massie) from the suburbs of southern California. Trained by Marty Jannetty and Ron Rivera, they stand out due to their ever-constant boyish looks and mannerisms and their colorful attire, as well as their aerodynamic wrestling style, being known for their use of superkicks (dubbed the "superkick party") and high flying moves in their matches. They are most known for their appearances in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla, though they have also competed in Wrestling/DragonGate (both Japan and USA) and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, and from 2013 to 2019 they were also mainstays of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling as members of its top heel faction, the Wrestling/BulletClub. From 2010 to 2011 they had a short run in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] under the team name Generation Me, using the ring names Max and Jeremy Buck respectively, where they were best known for their matches against the Motor City Machine Guns.