10 Surprising Wrestling Inspirations
6. The New Day (The Young Bucks)
Former Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion Big E dropped a surprise team name when discussing inspirations behind The New Day and looking for things them that made them stand out from their contemporaries.
As he put it during an interview with Gamespot;
"We wanted to be unique. How do we become unique? How do we separate ourselves from our peers? How do we offer something that no one else is offering right now? And those were always the biggest things. I think we can fill that niche or fill a void that's not currently being filled by anyone else. And you do it well, you can have a spot for years...honestly, we watched the Young Bucks stuff...absolutely, The Young Bucks. We watched the other contemporaries, the older teams. As a bigger guy, I watched Legion of Doom. I don't know if you look at my work like, 'Oh there's LOD. I see that influence.' One of our biggest things is we didn't necessarily want to be like, 'Oh, you know, Doom is great. We want to be like them."
In the face of criticism for years from those in and outside of the industry perpetually deriding their work, Matt and Nick Jackson ploughed forward with their own style and ultimately found enormous success without compromise. This mirrors that of The New Day - a group that found a way to thrive in a corporate system otherwise micromanaged to a fault.