The Young Bucks, are indie wrestling superstars, but it often seems like their personas exist in relation to WWE. AJ Styles tried to bring them into the company with him in 2016, but at the end of 2016 they chose instead to sign with Ring of Honor and New Japan for two more years.
Then in September, they took part in the Bullet Club’s invasion of RAW, which was itself a reference to WWE’s DX faction invading WCW Monday Nitro during the Monday Night Wars in 1998. That may have been what inspired WWE to threaten legal action to get the Young Bucks to stop using the “Too Sweet” hand gesture.
And adding insult to injury, just this week the Big Dog himself, Roman Reigns, made an obvious jab at the Young Bucks in passing during a WWE conference call.
Inside the Ropes shared the audio on YouTube:
That’s what we need: Guys who–and no offense to any of these guys–we don’t need guys running around doing “Too Sweet,” and we don’t need guys acting like they’re DX from 15 years ago. We need original characters. Guys who are them. I need Seth Rollins to be Seth Rollins. I need Kevin Owens to be Kevin Owens. I need Bray Wyatt to be Bray Wyatt. We need original superstars who have no clue what was done 15-20 years ago. And no disrespect of our history and our path, but we’re trying to create something new here.
Whatever you think of Roman, it’s no surprise that The Guy has opinions about what kind of guys wrestling needs. As for the Young Bucks, they responded obliquely but unmistakeably on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MattJackson13/status/917580953857384450
When fans wondered if this was a feud between the Bucks and the Shield, the Bucks put that to rest:
https://twitter.com/MattJackson13/status/917628112770174976
The Young Bucks clearly don’t take themselves seriously enough to get mad, and in wrestling there’s really no point to building a feud that can’t lead to a match.
Here’s the full audio from Inside the Ropes of what Roman had to say, which also features a discussion of his recent feud with Braun Strowman.
