The Young Bucks are always trying to get a reaction, and now they’re trying to do it with what’s on their feet.
The Young Bucks appeared on Complex’s Sneaker Shopping and spoke about how they’ve been accused of wearing knockoff shoes in the past on AEW TV. One pair in question was the Dior x Air Jordan collaboration that retailed for $2200, but commands a much higher price tag on the secondary market. Matt Jackson brothers said comments like that only add to their heel characters if you believe it’s true, and welcome the banter.
Matt: “Here’s my thing — were bad guys. So if you’re going to accuse us of wearing replicas or fakes, bring it. That actually added to our personalities, like, ‘Oh, are these guys such frauds?’ Like, believe what you want to believe, OK? But no, I’m not spending a lot of money on these, I’m sticking to it.”
After noting that they lean into things on social media and heel it up a bit, Complex’s Joe La Puma mentioned he saw that the Bucks claimed to have started the “sneakers in wrestling” trend. La Puma said that Shane was the first to really get noticed for wearing Jordans, but the brothers offered a disclaimer for taking things they say on the internet as fact before explaining why Shane’s the OG, but they helped popularize the trend now.
Matt: “I think with us, everything that you see or read about us, take it with a grain of salt because we’re always working. We’re always trying to get a reaction.
Nick: “I feel like we actually made it a trend though. If you look on Instagram or Twitter, or any social media, you’ll see wrestlers in sneakers and that wasn’t a thing 3-4 years ago.”
Matt: “Shane McMahon might have been the first guy to do it, but I don’t think all of the wrestlers were copying it. Maybe Shane’s the ‘OG’ of the sneakers thing…
Nick: “… but we helped make it trendy.”
Matt: “Now everybody’s doing it because we said it’s OK to do this. ‘Hey, you don’t have to wear wrestling boots.’ Like [Nick] said, if I showed up back in the day, 15 years ago, in the ring with sneakers, all of the veterans would have kicked my ass. ‘You have to have wrestling boots! This isn’t legit.’”
The Young Bucks recently signed two-year extensions with AEW, keeping them in the company until 2024.
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