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Young Bucks Talk Vision For AEW, Being Unafraid Of Future

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All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars and Executive Vice Presidents The Young Bucks (Nick and Matt Jackson) were recently interviewed by Sporting News. Check out some of the highlights from their conversation here:

Considering the freedom that you are going to have and there is an immense amount of buzz surrounding AEW already, what are some of the things that you’re looking at to make it stand out in what’s now a very crowded landscape for pro wrestling around the world?

NJ: Right from the start, I would have to say what’s cool about AEW is we’re going to give the spotlight to wrestlers that some fans might not even know of. I know a lot of people had no clue about OWE and as soon as announced it, people started reaching it and were like ‘Man, wow, maybe this is going to be something that’s cool.’ Things like that I’m most excited about, to get some of these wrestlers a spotlight that they haven’t had yet.

MJ: We’ve talked about this before, but we really want to do slow-burn, long-term storytelling. We don’t want to just give up on stories and we want to have continuity. It sounds crazy in the pro wrasslin’ business because usually we treat fans like wrasslin’ fans. It’s like, no. This is the Netflix, HBO, Showtime watching people who sometimes will binge watch television shows and they don’t like plot holes. They like seeing all of the loose ends tied and that’s one thing that’s important to us.

We’ve already shown on 139 episodes of our web series ‘Being the Elite’ — every single segment or bit on our show, there’s a reason for it. There’s a position for it and we pay it off. We just want to reward our viewers for watching our show. If we’re regularly doing this more often, hopefully, if it’s month to month, week to week, whatever it is, we’re hoping that they feel rewarded for continuing to watch our product.

With that being said, I know everyone is waiting for a big television announcement. When it comes to your vision for what AEW is going to be, how much have you thought ahead when it comes to possibly weekly television or even booking special events? How far into the future have you looked and mapped things out?

NJ: Well, I can tell you this. I know I’ve told Matt and I’ve told Kenny and Tony that I’m giving my career to this project. So, however long my career lasts, I’ll be here and Tony sees it just like that as well. He’s already talking 10, 15, 20 years from now, still running this thing. We’re in it for the long-term. We want this to succeed. We want this to be big and we don’t see it failing.

MJ: We’re all in on this, man. This is it. We’re working on very big things. We don’t want to give anything away but, hopefully, rather sooner or later, we’ll have some stuff to talk about. As far as creatively, I’m already thinking about it. I know who a lot of the guys and girls, who aren’t even announced yet that are on our roster, I’m already thinking of stories for them and what we can do to evolve their character and what we can do with each division. We’re already planning ahead.

Is it tough not to micro-manage? You’re forming this from the ground up and you want to have a hand in everything, but there’s only so much that one person, or in your case, two people can do.

NJ: Yeah. When it comes to micro-managing the actual wrestling shows, promo-wise, match-wise, we’re going to be very fair about it because we feel like when wrestlers are telling their own stories, they know best with what their character should do. We feel like we’re going to try and give the wrestlers that option to try and tell the best story they can.

MJ: We’ve already been kind of doing that with the press conferences. We just give the guys bullet points and we don’t write them a script. We say ‘Hey, say this and get to this point.’ Again, it’s the same thing with our show (‘Being the Elite’), we really don’t write scripts. It’s really loose. I think we’re going to use a lot of the same things that have worked for us in the past that have succeeded and try to do that.

Understandably, if we end up doing a live television show or pay-per-view or whatever, it’s going to be a little bit different because it’s all timed. It has to hit a certain time. It’s all new to us and, like Nick said, we’re going to try our best not to micro-manage and not to filter too much because the artist knows what their songs want to sound like. We’re going to let them play their music.

Who do you think is going to be happier about non-scripted promos — fans or talent?

NJ: Oh man, probably all of them to be honest.

MJ: I think what we’re missing in wrestling right now is things that are organic. Sometimes, we go by the script so something might happen and we’re so afraid. Wrestlers, entertainers, are so afraid to improvise now and that’s a big part of what we do. A lot of the stuff we do is calling it on the fly. You’ve got to feel a certain way or you have to react to certain situations and I think that’s what wrestling is missing right now. Hopefully, we can add to that element again.

Matt, you tweeted out that “we need to look into doing one of these in a bigger building” because the show sold out so quickly just like “All In” did. Was there any thought into using a bigger building and when do you think might be the right time to try a building that’s bigger that can hold 10, 12,000 people?

MJ: Literally when I was tweeting that, Nick and I and some of the guys like Cody and Kenny, we were already discussing the possibilities. Right now, it’s all hypotheticals. There’s nothing set in stone, but we’re already talking about it. Imagine doing it in a stadium. As far as when, I don’t know. Like, while we’re young, while we’re hot, while we’ve got everybody’s attention so sooner rather than later.

So, you’re saying Cowboys Stadium next year?

MJ: [Laughs] That’s a good one!

NJ: That would be great.

I think you don’t know until you actually try. I’m not saying go for a building that size, but who knows? Maybe you would have sold out a bigger building than can hold 30,000 or even 40,000. 

NJ: Who knows. I’ll tell you this — Tony is very ambitious and the four of us, we’re all ambitious as well, so you’ve got five very ambitious guys that will reach for the stars.

MJ: Five guys that are unafraid.

To read Nick and Matt’s full interview with Sporting News, click here.

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