The Young Bucks

The Young Bucks
Matt (Left) and Nick (Right)
BornMatthew Ronjon Massie:
(1985-03-13) March 13, 1985 (age 39)[1]
Nicholas Lee Massie:
(1989-07-28) July 28, 1989 (age 35)[2]
Montebello, California, U.S.[3][4]
EmployerAll Elite Wrestling
TitleExecutive Vice President
Websitebeingtheelite.com
Ring name(s)The Cucamonga Kids
The Jackson Brothers[5]
Los Gallineros[6]
Max and Jeremy Buck[7]
Matt and Nick Jackson[8]
The Young Bucks[6][8]
Generation Me[6][8]
Matthew and Nicholas Jackson
Billed height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) each[9][10]
[11][12]
Billed weightMatt: 172 lb (78 kg)[9][10]
Nick: 178 lb (81 kg)[11][12]
Billed fromRancho Cucamonga, California
Trained byRon Rivera[6][13]
Rudos Dojo[6][14]
Marty Jannetty[6]
DebutAugust 8, 2004[6][9][11]
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
Genres
Subscribers506 thousand[15]
Total views103.5 million[15]
Last updated: August 23, 2024

The Young Bucks are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Matthew Massie and Nicholas Massie, who perform under the ring names Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson. As of January 2019, they are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are also executive vice presidents and co-founders of the company. As performers in AEW, they are three-time and AEW World Tag Team Champions, and were the inaugural and two-time AEW World Trios Champions with Kenny Omega as The Elite.

The Young Bucks are also known for their work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where they became members of the NJPW faction Bullet Club; after a "civil war" in 2018, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, "Hangman" Adam Page, Marty Scurll, and Cody Rhodes were kicked out of the Bullet Club and went on to form The Elite. They have performed for various American independent promotions – most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) – and had previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Generation Me under the names Max Buck and Jeremy Buck. On the independent circuit, they have won numerous titles as well, including four reigns as PWG World Tag Team Champions as well as being the only team to win PWG's annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament on three occasions (2009, 2011, and 2013).

They have held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship seven times, three reigns as ROH World Tag Team Champions, three reigns as NJPW's NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Kenny Omega and once with Marty Scurll), three reigns as ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Page and once with Cody Rhodes), and the IWGP and AAA World Tag Team Champions once each. They were also the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions with Elite teammate Omega. All totalled between AEW, ROH, NJPW, and AAA, they have held eight world tag team championships, seven junior heavyweight tag team championships, and eight six-man/trios championships (with various partners).

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