10 Biggest Unsolved AEW Mysteries
8. What's The Deal With FTR And The Young Bucks?
Before the Revival became FTR, they were very interested in working a match with the Young Bucks - they, as Cash Wheeler once tweeted, would rejoice alongside the fandom at large.
The match eventually happened at Full Gear 2020; FTR lost but only after drifting away from their old school approach and chronologically updating their move-set with foolhardy defiance, leading to that missed Cash 450 splash. This created an in-built rematch, but it didn't happen until 2022, randomly and on free TV, tying the series 1-1. People wondered what happened, not least FTR themselves, who when talking to Brandon Walker on Wrasslin - albeit in kayfabe - wondered aloud why Tony Khan didn't book a series of rematches. Then, there were those times each team was accused of ducking the other.
Did the Young Bucks refuse to work a Winner Takes All match with FTR and run away to launch the Trios division in 2022?
Wasn't a rematch - and potential title switch - all but confirmed when the Bucks refused to shake hands with FTR when the third match at All In: London belatedly happened? What happened to that angle?
Is this all some online conspiracy theory? Was a narrative projected onto a coincidental series of circumstances in which the timing was never quite right?
Why is the easiest feud in AEW history so stop-start, and why has it been suddenly abandoned at least once?
That FTR grew close with CM Punk behind the scenes may not have helped. The detectives, those who still give half a sh*t anyway, may note also that Dax Harwood never puts a Young Bucks match at #1 in a frequently updated list of his own favourite matches, and omitted them entirely from his list of 10 best tag teams on Twitter.
If this is all some elaborate blurred-lines work, driven by tedious cryptic passive aggressive behaviour, then it has failed spectacularly: multiple instances of real backstage heat elsewhere have completely overshadowed it, and the match is nowhere near as hot a prospect as it was in 2016. That is lifetime-ago stuff.
There's a story here, surely.