Young Bucks Recall AEW Getting ‘Big Leagued’ By NJPW

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AEW Executive Vice Presidents the Young Bucks have reflected on the promotion being “big leagued” by NJPW in its early days.

Times have changed as the promotions are collaborating for the Forbidden Door show on June 26, but the Bucks have recalled NJPW’s first reaction to AEW proposing a partnership.

Speaking with Hugo Savinovich of Lucha Libre Online, Matt Jackson said:

“You know what’s crazy is we told New Japan day one, ‘Hey, we’re doing this thing, come hang out with us. Come work with us. We’d still love to do your shows’. They kind of kayfabed us, kind of big-leagued us a little bit in the beginning. They were waiting until that entire dinner table was completely set, then, ‘Oh wait, now let’s go’. So it’s just funny when you see – and all the WWE guys that joined AEW now too, they didn’t want to join AEW at first because they were like,’I don’t know if this is real’. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

“We remember who took the leap with us in the very beginning, day one. It was us who set the dinner table, so it’s funny now that New Japan, all these WWE guys, they all want to be a part of this thing that we created.”

Nick Jackson then made a point of mentioning that AAA was a promotion that was happy to work with AEW from the very beginning.

No matches have been announced for Forbidden Door as of yet, but it certainly seems like the Undisputed Elite and the Bullet Club will play a very big part.

There was a very interesting story recently about WWE’s previous attempts to partner with New Japan, how Tony Khan found out, and his reaction, which you can read at this link.

Quote via Inside The Ropes

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• Forbidden Door
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