The Young Bucks Discuss They’re Success and Finally Making Good Money, Which Teams They’d Still Like to Face, and Their Work Schedule

– The Edge and Christian podcast recently interviewed The Young Bucks. Below are some highlights (transcript via WrestlingInc.com).

Nick Jackson on their schedule: “Would you say it’s probably about 15 or 17 days on and then the rest off? Somewhere around there. This year is probably the best in the last five, I would say. But last year was crazy. We were probably on the road maybe 240-something days. Something around there. This year it’s a lot better, like Matt said, because of signing with ROH now we can’t really do any independents in the [United] States besides PWG and the ones we clear with Ring Of Honor, so it’s not often. But we do do New Japan quite often, like all the time. And we’ve been doing a lot of overseas stuff lately, so it is hectic.”

Matt Jackson on their success: “Now we’re enjoying the success that we’ve finally earned after 14 years in [pro] wrestling and now we’re making good money, great money, now. And I’m happy to say that because we’ve earned it. This year, like Nick was saying, it has gotten a lot better. We’re only in Japan for the big shows now, so it’s not so bad. We’re not gone for weeks at a time, but we’ll do a big show, maybe two or three shows in Japan. And then, we’ll come home. Then, we’ll have Thursday through Saturday with Ring Of Honor while we’re home, so it’s not so bad. I feel like we have probably a better schedule than anybody right now, who happens to be making the money we’re making.”

Nick Jackson on the teams they’d like to wrestle: “As far as teams that we would like to wrestle, I mean, everyone on the internet, their stock answer immediately would be this team called The Revival over in NXT. I would love to wrestle them just because it could kind of be a modern day Brain Busters versus The Rockers. I think that’d be good. Yeah, that’s the match that everyone definitely wants to see. I would like to wrestle New Day, and even in a trios [match] with Kenny Omega, the three of us, would be fun.”

Nick Jackson on wrestlers taking themselves too seriously: “From [Edge and Christian], I learned that it’s okay to make fun of yourself, man. And to fall and laugh at yourself. And, at the end of the day, you still end up being a badass. Like, you show both sides though. You show that you’re tough and you can go, but it’s okay to be silly. So many guys, man, we wrestle with and they’re just like, ‘oh, that’ll make me look stupid’ and I’m like, ‘well, do it to me then because I love looking stupid!’ If you can have a sense of humor and hit every single thing, man, it’s fine.”