It's Official: The Young Bucks Are Wrestling's Greatest Ever Tag Team

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The Bucks have maintained this far richer storytelling form in AEW.

After months out before the launch, they leaned on rust as a storytelling driver at the inaugural Double Or Nothing, layering their work with real-life precedent in an ingenious twist throughout a thrilling match with the Lucha Bros. In the opening round of the AEW World Tag Team Title tournament, Matt learned and applied the lesson of his back injury to subdue Isiah Kassidy. At Revolution, in the greatest tag team match ever, they lost because they couldn't work in their trademark sync; off-kilter, Matt was too focused on hurting Hangman Page where Nick had adopted a more sportsmanlike mindset.

At Fyter Fest, they dusted off the old, insane onslaught - top rope springboard hurricanranas! Canadian Destroyers to the outside! - to draw a stylistic divide between themselves and FTR, who were dismayed on the apron.

At Full Gear, they completed that seminal story of inter-generational tag team wrestling, with Matt's ankle injury making up the emotional core. Following a lung-bursting storytelling epic, in which FTR accepted the evolution of tag team wrestling by desperately racing through its chronology, Cash Wheeler stared down Matt at the finish.

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