10 HUGE Tests Wrestlers Passed
4. The Young Bucks Make Tag Team Wrestling A Relevant Concern Again
The Young Bucks stated their aim at the Double Or Nothing 2019 ticket rally. This is paraphrasing, but they basically said "We're not going to let that mental awld tw*t f*ck over the thing we've spent our career trying to bring back".
They aimed to bring it back. They did, and how.
And it's impressive because tag team wrestling was quite dead in the mainstream. In WWE, it was a Kickoff concern around which no storylines were built beyond the title picture. The titles themselves, after years and years of abuse via neglect - those wearing matching gear were outnumbered by strange bedfellows - were contested almost exclusively in formulaic, hollow sugar rushes by the end of the last decade. If anybody out there can adequately tell your writer what the "story" of New Day Vs. The Bar Vs. The Usos from TLC 2018 was, your writer will personally send you £50,000. And they said the Young Bucks did spot-fests.
The Bucks brought back tag team wrestling by establishing the AEW World Tag Team Titles as a main event-level prize. The final held to decide the first holders headlined Dynamite, and the pay-per-view title matches have went longer than anything else on the card on three out of the last four occasions. There are, statistically, almost as many tags on Dynamite as singles. It is the destination for tag team wrestling. It's as great and committed as almost every other promotion is mid and lazy.
The match quality is as stunning as the stylistic range, and the depth is just outrageous. AEW is only two years old, and they've signed the "new Young Bucks" twice over in Private Party and Top Flight. The Bucks themselves aced the test by evolving their story-driven twist-heavy banger epic across G.O.A.T-level epics opposite Kenny Omega and Hangman Page and FTR.