All Elite Wrestling Executive Vice Presidents, Matt and Nick Jackson, The Young Bucks recently appeared on Busted Open Radio where they spoke about a wide range of topics including the influence that Chris Jericho & Dean Malenko have in AEW.
Here is what Matt had to say:
Jericho: “And Chris Jericho’s the master of these things and he told Nick the other day, like, if you’ve got a thirteen minute match, plan a kick-ass thirteen minute match. Don’t worry too much about the break spot tonight,” Matt said. “Let’s try to give them something different; let’s not do a house show dive and then, ‘Well, everyone knows we’re going to break.’ Let’s try to use a different formula, let’s try to give the live house some action. We’re just trying to plug in different things and we don’t want to fall into doing the same thing every week, and fall into these patterns where then it becomes a formula, right? Then you’re watching and you go, ‘Oh, I know what’s next.’ So, we’re trying to be unpredictable still and trying to find our sweet spot.”
Malenko: “So many of these guys are a wealth of knowledge, and I think that the way to stay on top in wrestling is you never stop learning,” Matt said. “So, to have a guy like Dean Malenko there, too, it’s so great to have these minds to just pick. And not even that, sometimes I’ll sit at the ‘Go’ position and I’ll watch a guy like Dean, and he’s one of our great coaches, and I’ll watch the way he produces the segments. I’ll listen to him so it gives me a better understanding of where I should go with the next segment, or what works best here. Like [Nick] just mentioned with the timing, like, he knows where to time things.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcription
