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5. The Young Bucks

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Matt and Nick Jackson are no longer the brash young pups who infuriated WWE management with their handshake-related transgression; like Seth Rollins before them, they have developed the difficult trick of being both technically excellent and detestable enough to generate genuine heat. In this smark-heavy era, that is no mean feat.

Jim Cornette famously loathes them, and his standing in WWE as persona non grata may indirectly help them buddy up with their former Bullet Club bosses Finn Balor and AJ Styles in Connecticut. However, as much as he hates to admit it, there is some semblance of the old-school booker within Vince McMahon, and he too must share Cornette's aversion to the Buck's often nonsensical superkick-heavy act.

With the rise of American Alpha and The Revival, as well as the wealth of main roster debuts, it is clear that WWE intends to front-load and take seriously the back-in-vogue tag team division. McMahon is notoriously very forgiving - seeing Eric Bischoff on RAW is still an inexplicable sight, thirteen years later - but only when real money is involved.

It remains to be seen whether the Buck's currency is such that the bridge they burnt can be re-built.

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