The Young Bucks talked the process behind re-signing with AEW.
On the
Swerve City Podcast, The Young Bucks said that they weren’t sure of where they would go or what they would do. However, they established that they, Kenny Omega, and Hangman Page would negotiated together as a group.
“We didn’t know,” Matt said. “I don’t read any of it, but I know [people] are thinking oh, how surprising The Elite re-signed. Bro, we didn’t even know if we were going to re-sign...we all negotiated together as a team.”
“The votes did not line up every time,” Matt continued. There were a lot of emotions in the last year, as the world knows, so one day this person’s voting to leave, this person’s voting to go. We weren’t even on the same page the whole time.”
At one point, Nick brought up that Matt even considered retiring rather than continue to wrestle for either promotion.
“I had to talk him out of that,” he said.
The discussion started while Swerve and The Young Bucks were discussing recent NBA contracts going for big money.
“We just signed one today, right?” Matt joked.
“It’s funny you say that, because when we signed our contracts we were like 'this is an NBA-level contract'. That’s pretty crazy,” Nick added.
The Young Bucks said that as wrestling gets hot, the industry could be seeing NBA-level deals if the industry as a whole continues to gain momentum.
“WWE helps us being hot because wrestling in general is hot now,” Nick said.
The Young Bucks will wrestle on Dynamite this coming Wednesday, facing The Hardys.
