How the Young Bucks Revolutionized Professional Wrestling

[Vegas]

the Young Bucks are my personal favorite tag team and they always have been since 2009.

I meant to post this link to this article last month but then got extremely sick with a very nasty stomach flu that required 2 doctor visits in 3 days

sports.vice.com/en_us/article/party-next-door-how-the-young-bucks-revolutionized-professional-wrestling

[whlineup]

Nice Article. Love the Young Bucks!

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"How the Young Bucks Revolutionized Professional Wrestling"

"Vice"

lolololololololololololol

EDIT: I'm reading it now and good lord.

So yes, two performers named their signature trick after a 57-year-old journalist they have met a handful of times, and whose significance to them lies only in critiquing their work, which they themselves purport is the very best thing in existence. Out of context, the act sounds, at best, like excessive self-congratulation. At worst, it's embarrassing.



But in today's professional wrestling, everyone is in on the joke. It's a safe bet, in other words, that most everyone attending a Young Bucks show knows who Dave Meltzer is, just as those same people likely have a working knowledge of his five-star rating system. So there was only ever going to be one outcome once the Young Bucks gave some PDA to their muse: the building went apeshit.



Matt and Nick anticipated this, of course. They are the tag team of the internet generation, practitioners of self-aware, postmodern wrestling. "Our act is pretty much your routine tag team wrestling, but you're on cocaine," Matt says.

The act is designed to operate on multiple levels. If you want nostalgia—the crotch chops, the "suck it," the gratuitous imitations of wrestlers living and dead—well, the Young Bucks can do that. Or you can watch them as a circus act: bright costumes, brilliant acrobatics, plenty of playing off the crowd. But the reason why the Young Bucks transfix the hardcore fans as much as the casual ones lies in stunts like the one with Meltzer, and what they represent: bringing the wrestling nerd subculture into the mainstream.

get. the. entire. fuck. out. of. here.