The current plan is to have The Young Bucks go against FTR and have FTR beat them at long last.
This is being done over the explicit objections of the Bucks, who have been refusing to work with FTR since beating them despite having a gentleman's agreement that they would do the job back to FTR per the notion of 50/50 booking Cody had established for the Elites early on as a means to make sure people would be willing to work with them in the ring without fear of burial.
Tony Khan is forcing the issue, because the Bucks have been getting quite uppity, plus his original plans for placating FTR was to bring in the Briscos for a high profile feud which FTR would have won in decisive fashion.
With Warner Media blackballing the Briscos, Tony is convinced that the Bucks were responsible for poisoning the well behind his back. The Bucks deny this, but they are on the record internally of not wanting to "waste the Briscos on losers like FTR" and wanted first crack at them.
Right now, the plan is to slow build FTR turning face via Bret Hart. Sometime the next month or so, expect Bret to show up on AEW TV to give more details on the Owen Hart Memorial Tournament, at which point FTR will turn face when the Bucks try and attack Bret. Supposedly, the plan is to have Bret publicly bury the Bucks as being literal whos, which in turn will be used to extract Adam Cole/ReDragon from the Bucks permanently as they won't help the Bucks against FTR after they diss Bret.
The Bucks again are utterly against this, but they are on super thin ice. Tony thinks they are snitches, Omega's basically detached from the day to day stuff at the shows as he heals up, and Cody is 100% gone. The Bucks have no allies as Khan is starting to consolidate power for himself. And the FTR thing is a rather large sore spot, since Tony has started to feel hypocritical that he basically banished Cody from AEW for outrageous creative control demands while allowing the Bucks to repeatedly bury FTR.
>Called all elite wrestling >will soon only have 2 of the 5 elite wrestlers kek
Carson Nelson
At this point, they should just go full Hogan/Russo.
Make the Bucks go out there to fight FTR, only for the Bucks to literally lay down and demand FTR pin them out of pure protest for being made to do so, like Hogan did that one time under Russo.
Either that or or just fire FTR and be done with it. They were a poor fit with AEW anyway with the Bucks clearly jealous of them and all that. They'll take a huge hit yes PR-wise, but if Tony's going to be a hostage to the Bucks' egomania, he might as well go full cuck and be damned.
Jayden Martinez
Fine speech
Nolan Miller
What makes the Bucks snitches?
Jaxson Reed
Worse, the only remaining "elites" are the two baggage boys of the actual "elites",
It's like if Xpac and Billy Gunn somehow ended up with major booking power at WWE in the early 00s.
Christopher Hall
meds
Luke Morris
Imagine writing this headcanon, because I'm not reading it.
Jeremiah Brown
Ftr can beat the young bucks all they want but both teams are fags that suck This would be based.
Jack Jenkins
Because they are making life very complicated for Tony Khan for petty BS reasons, by going behind his back to the network to keep the Briscos from being allowed on AEW TV, let alone ROH TV if and when it relaunches.
Not only are they undermining Tony by snitching about the Briscos past, but it's going to make things extremely difficult for Tony since A. the Briscos are currently the ROH tag champions and Tony wants to preserve continuity with the purchase with minimum rebooting of the champions and B. pissing off FTR, who probably know a good amount of dirt on AEW that has been swept under the rug during their time there that Tony probably doesn't want to be made public knowledge. Bonus points, if they know things about Brodie's death (and deals made with his family to buy them off) that have been swept under the rug.
Lincoln Sullivan
Actually going full Hogan would be cringy as fuck and nuke the Bucks reputation from orbit.
At this point, they should do a "loser gets fired" match with the Bucks and FTR and have FTR win it and then exile the Bucks over onto the relaunched Ring of Honor and have them declare themselves the new tag champions due to executive fiat.
Let the Bucks and Omega have ROH as their own private bassinet crib to jerk off themselves with. And leave AEW proper to the people fans actually like.
Gabriel Ward
Can someone explain why people simp for the Revival so fucking hard? They are like Chris Benoit in terms of how smarks simp for them.
Lucas Lewis
They had a couple of really good matches in NXT and compared to the other crappy ass WWE tag teams of the late 10s, were a breath of fresh air. Which is why you had the Usos and New Day burying them to hell and high water for being a threat to them, resulting in Vince basically allowing them to walk free when they told Vince point blank they were not going to stick around.
It also helps that the Young Bucks' hate boner for FTR increased the divide among smarks with those who think Omega/Bucks can do no wrong vs those who consider them to be parasites who attached themselves to the more popular/over Cody Rhodes and Chris Jericho, to get a money mark to build them their own wrestling company because none of them could get hired by the WWE.
Aiden Jackson
Underdog syndrome.
Because they like being the "top dog" and are probably getting antsy because Omega's not coming back anytime soon and without Cody to draw attention away from them, their antics are now being put under a microscope and don't have the cover Omega gives them to be mini-HHHs.
And it probably pisses them off that no one is saying "Young Bucks vs The Briscos".
Or that the Briscos themselves are hyper defensive towards their image and the only reason the Briscos are even entertaining losing to FTR in their hypothetical match? Is that the Briscos want a huge payday for losing to FTR and they know the Bucks won't even give them THAT for their troubles.
Hence why the Bucks are snitching to corporate to keep the Briscos out. Cody being let go probably has them super spooked since out of the Elite, Cody was the one most likely to be "untouchable" and if he can be let go, then Omega and the Bucks probably aren't untouchable.
Levi Bennett
The Bucks shouldn't lose to FTR or the Briscoes, who are literal fucking who hillbillies that don't deserve TV time based on missing teeth alone
Joseph Wood
Where is this narrative about the Bucks being behind the Briscoe situation coming from? They're friends, and have worked together heaps in ROH.
Sebastian Murphy
>It also helps that the Young Bucks' hate boner for FTR increased the divide among smarks with those who think Omega/Bucks can do no wrong vs those who consider them to be parasites who attached themselves to the more popular/over Cody Rhodes and Chris Jericho, to get a money mark to build them their own wrestling company because none of them could get hired by the WWE.
FTR also proved to be able to hang with various Indy Shitters in NXT by using very basic moves and non carny psychology, without flips/dives.
I mean as far as the Bucks being wrestling outcasts, I mean thats no different then whereever they go? I mean they got keked out of TNA by Bishoff. almost caused a internal riot with their diving bullshit they did in NJPW (GO HOME), until they came under the protection of Machine Gun Karl. The got instantly blackballed on their WWE try out for alledgedly going "against lockerroom protocal" (and didnt shake Booker T's hand). After a long time, dont they have to start looking themselves in the mirror and admit maybe the problem is THEM? They got Friends, but even their friends can see the writing on the wall.
I mean everyone in the history of buisness knows Executive VP titles are basically "overblown car sales men, just stand there a smile" positions. I mean who worked who here: The Bucks started their company, but Khan might be the last one laughing.
Jayden Sanders
No one cares about the Bucks. Seriously, of all of the people on AEW TV, the Bucks are the biggest literal whos of them all.
At least FTR were prominently featured on Raw and had a semi memorable feud with Zach Ryder and Curtis Hawkins. What the fuck has the Bucks done that people care about, except carry Adam Cole's bags? Fuck, they have to resort to cosplay dress up to get any sort of reaction from the crowd for christ's sake!
Caleb Robinson
Briscos want to go to AEW and feud with FTR. Not the Bucks.
Bucks are jealous little bitches who've actively been burying FTR, getting kept off TV/having their matches bumped off of episodes of Dynamite, reneged on a deal to job to them in exchange for FTR jobbing to them first, and other petty bullshit.
Tony Khan had the Briscos do a full on apology tour to recant previous statements about homosexuals that they made. Even get Effy, head of the indie gay mafia, to declare the Briscos "good people" after they kissed his cockring and begged forgiveness.
Only for a Warner Media executive to veto them coming in at the last minute, after Khan bought ROH so they could continue being tag champions.
Given their history of backstage buggery and all, it makes sense that the Bucks got to someone high up at Warner since Tony was well on his way to "rehab" the Briscos so he could bring them in with little backlash. Because the Briscos saw the Bucks and FTR and decided they wanted to play with FTR instead.
Lucas Cooper
this take is close I think it's more simple than that. The Bucks don't want FTR v Briscoes because they know it will put both of those teams over as fuck due to the demand and that both are retarded as the best tag teams in professional wrestling right now The Bucks are control freaks, not setting up the rematch with FTR is petty and a lot of people caught on to the fact they've been ducking the rematch, and since they're in charge of booking the tag team matches, people started wondering why it is you see the Best Friends or HFO or some other shit that isn't really over but is given significant TV time despite not being worth it while FTR is backstage Them being in the Pinnacle should have been so much better than what it was, but the Bucks fucked it up because they're petty "AF" What Tony really needs to do is make Regal the head booker for AEW, and get Delirious back to book ROH so that none of this type of bullshit will happen again He let the inmates run the asylum and got burned for it, playtime is fucking over
>No one cares about the Bucks. Seriously, of all of the people on AEW TV, the Bucks are the biggest literal whos of them all. yeah man, for sure
Levi Jackson
Bitchtits having a normal one
Logan Evans
I know FTR has a huge stick up their asses and don't like doing comedy period, but I would love to fucking see FTR just completely take a piss on the Bucks by ripping them off, right down to stealing their cosplay gimmick for big shows.
