10 Fascinating Facts About 2019's 5-Star Matches
8. One "Buck" Away From Immortality
2019 featured yet another 5-star tag team classic from real-life brothers Matt and Nick Jackson, better known as The Young Bucks.
The colorful, superkick-savvy duo put on a banger of a ladder match with also-real-life-brothers Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix at AEW All Out, earning a scale-breaking 5.25-star rating from Davey Boy Meltzer. This was the Bucks' third 5-star match as a team, leaving them one match shy of tying the record set by legendary All Japan duo Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada in the '90s. Currently, they are tied with such iconic teams as Kobashi & Misawa, Akiyama & Misawa (damn, Misawa was great in tag teams as well), and The Golden Lovers, Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi.
Realistically, unless AEW and New Japan are able to work out some sort of agreement that would allow Omega and Ibushi to reunite, the Jacksons appear to be the only team with a chance at matching this once-untouchable record. And given that Meltzer is an unabashed Bucks fan (so much so that they named a move after him), it should be only a matter of time.