Independent wrestling superstars & Bullet Club members; Matt & Nick Jackson (The Young Bucks) & NJPW star Kenny Omega talked with ESPN Toronto about numerous wrestling & non-wrestling topics, including their YouTube Show; “Being The Elite” & much more.
Here are the highlights: (if you’re going to use the quotes below, give credit to ESPN Toronto with an H/T to eWrestlingNews for the transcriptions)
Their YouTube Channel:
Kenny Omega: “See the Bucks and I, we’re still trying to make a statement in terms of what wrestling should be, what it can be. The potential of what professional wrestling is in the year 2017, we are able to express ourselves personally as performers. I think it widens our scope and it shows the fans more of what my true range is as an athlete and a performer.”
Nick Jackson: “We didn’t really have everything figured out, but a lot of it just came into place perfectly; We had lead-ins for each episode to turn ourselves on out of. For instance: I got sick during one of the episodes and this was Matt’s brain child, to make the story that Adam poisoned me. So that was on the fly, but a lot of the other stuff was planned ahead of time. We had other ideas to end the storyline. At first it was actually going to be Kenny Omega vs. Adam Cole on pay-per-view, but Kenny’s visa didn’t get approved.”
Bringing Marty Scurll Into The Bullet Club:
Nick Jackson: “So we heard that New Japan was planning on bringing Marty into the mix and as soon as we heard that, we were like okay, we’ve got a different out. With the finale, it all worked out perfectly. It’s funny that New Japan had the idea, because Matt and I and Marty, we had discussed it months ago that he would be a perfect fit for [Bullet Club]. We had hoped he would be a guy that would eventually join, but we never really talked to Gedo and Tiger Hattori about it. It makes me question, maybe they were watching the show too.”
Having Complete Control Over Their Channel:
Matt Jackson: “We don’t trust anyone else with the creative process that we have. We had many people offer it like, ‘Hey, we’ll come and do it all for you, we’ll edit it all.’ We both shied away, we’re like, ‘Sorry, we just want to have everything in our control.’ We want to upload it whenever we have the chance to do it and whenever we want to. We like that and we feel like we deserve to have that and it’s so fun for us because now we’re the talent, we’re the actors, right? But, we’ve also become the producers, the director, [and Nick’s] the editor.”
Kenny Omega: “We’re just a variety show. No matter what type of person you are, whether you’re young, you’re old, new wrestling fan, old wrestling fan, you’ll be able to take something from our performance and enjoy it. That’s what we hope to have from our matches and it’s fun to take that journey together. It alleviates a lot of the stress of our everyday jobs of doing what we have to do. Doing ‘The Elite’ thing, when we really feel like we’re clicking on all cylinders, we are [proving], from start to finish, that we’re real entertainment, not [just] wrestling.”
