REVEALED: Why The Young Bucks Haven't Been On AEW TV Regularly

The Young Bucks have been conspicuous by their absence from AEW programming at certain times, with the current AEW World Tag Team Champions not being live and in living colour for several recent episodes of TV, with just their names being mentioned or referenced to. The pair have only wrestled a handful of times too, competing just six times in four months, and have yet to defend their AEW World Tag Team Titles after winning them at the Dynasty PPV in April. 

On Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez revealed why this was the case, and it comes down to The Young Bucks’ AEW contract status. 

“I gotta say this because I know people have taken this out on the Bucks. Listen everybody, you think that Young Bucks book their own stuff? They don’t. If you’re upset about The Young Bucks not being on TV — if you’re upset about the Bucks not defending their tag team titles, there is one person that you can be upset at and that’s Tony Khan. Because whatever contract they signed, it was for X number of dates, and he has not wanted to pay them. Maybe he’s got some plan for the end of the year or they used a bunch of dates at the beginning of the year. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not The Young Bucks deciding ‘Hey we’re gonna take the summer off and not defend our tag team titles’.

“It’s like Brock Lesnar. Remember when people got mad at Brock for never showing up? Like somehow Brock was calling the shots. It’s like he had X number of dates. They didn’t want to pay him for extended periods of time, so they told him to stay home and he farmed and he drank whole milk and then when they wanted him they called him and he came back to work. That’s exactly what the Bucks will do when they get the call.”

The Bucks are lined up for an AEW World Tag Team Championship defence against The Acclaimed, though an official date for this match has yet to be announced. 

H/T WrestlingNews.Co