10 Wrestlers Who Reward You For Paying Attention
7. The Young Bucks
Full Gear's World Tag Team Championship match told a phenomenal story of how FTR had to gradually accept the evolution of a genre they have spent a career attempting to restore. It was a masterpiece, and yet FTR didn't kick out of the Meltzer Driver. The Young Bucks didn't kick out of the Goodnight Express.
Both teams told an exquisitely layered and realised story, and there's still so much ground left to cover because the Bucks are so out-of-this-world fantastic that they can pen five star-rated first chapters.
The Bucks are incredible storytellers because they utilise the form of professional wrestling to tell their stories. They recognise that the modern pro wrestling fan has eaten so much sh*t for decades, but they aren't going anywhere. They trust the ultra-hardcores to pay attention and extract the most from their near-unprecedented use of the long-term form.
As an example: when the Bucks faced Private Party on the second-ever Dynamite, Matt, acutely aware of how a bum back can mess you up, applied his past to his present and targeted his aerial disciple Isiah Kassidy.
Selling a body part so incredibly is reward enough; thinking deeper, to a level that punishes the next generation with the lessons he learned, is why the Bucks are the greatest tag team ever.