ROH COO Joe Koff Explains How The Hardys vs. Young Bucks Feud Came Together

– During a recent interview with FanBuzz, ROH COO Joe Koff spoke about how the Hardys vs. Young Bucks feud came together for them…

“The Young Bucks came to me and they said we have this idea. And they told me that whole idea with the Hardyz. At the time, the Bucks are contracted to me, the Hardyz were contracted to TNA Impact at the time. I said this is a good idea. I think the Hardyz-Bucks match could have a lot of cache. My goal was only to do (the Bucks-Hardyz match) at WrestleMania weekend. We wanted to build the story, and it (started) at Final Battle. It was the most amazing, dynamic, organic moment. When they were no longer able to work out a deal with Impact, we immediately said come wrestle with us. We never had any term on it. We wanted to finish the angle, finish the story. The story really ended in Lakeland. It could have continued, we could have built that angle further. But it didn’t end in Lakeland because they were going to WWE. It ended in Lakeland because that’s where it ended. It happened because of them, because they wanted to do it. What it said to me was talent respects the creative freedoms that exist here and the ability to bring an idea to management and as long as everybody was satisfied from a legal and contractual standpoint, that’s how that happened. I will give the Young Bucks and the Hardyz full credit for that.”