50 Best Wrestlers Of The 2020s (So Far)
17. The Young Bucks
Influential, controversial and undeniable, The Young Bucks' half-decade has been their most eventful yet. On the strength of what they got up to in the 2010s, this took some doing.
Having long cemented their place as two of the best wrestlers of all time, the formation of AEW simultaneously normalised much of their magic while proving that so few others can manage it quite as well. Matt(hew) and Nick(-cholas) Jackson are still incomparable in terms of high-flying, innovative double-team manoeuvres and chemistry. The bar they've set is so high that often when they're not in transcendent form, they're considered lazy or past their best. An impossible standard set, then, but something surpassing it is never far away.
In any given year, a Young Bucks match could be the company's very best, and for 2020 in particular, may well be the best of all time. Shortly before the pandemic ripped audiences away from the promotion in peak form, The Bucks, Hangman Page and Kenny Omega delivered their opus at Revolution - a match that, in league with Being The Elite, years of stories past and years of stories still to come in future was so fantastic that it laid down a marker to every wrestler to follow it for the rest of the decade. For better and sometimes worse, most are still trying.
Do they really truly want to Change The World as much as they used to? Probably not, but surely this yet again reveals the aforementioned impossible standard - there's a vast, vast majority that never manage such a lofty feat once, let alone once a year.