The final Impact Wrestling tapings of the year will take place at Matt Hardy’s compound in North Carolina and will feature a tag team “Apocalypto” match that will include tag teams outside of TNA.
Nick Jackson of The Young Bucks was injured in the first Bucks match at Wednesday’s ROH TV tapings in Toronto. Nick was scheduled for the main event of the night, Team Bullet Club vs. Team ROH, but was unable to wrestle. F4WOnline notes that he’s believed to have a broken rib but that’s not confirmed.
Yesterday, The Young Bucks stated that they have signed with a major wrestling promotion, but left it to speculation on which one it was. Today they made the announcement that they have signed with Ring of Honor. Below is their video announcement followed by a press release:
Matt & Nick Jackson “The young Bucks” sign with Ring of Honor #SUPERKICKPARTY!!!!
(BALTIMORE,MD) – After years of touring the globe as one of the most popular free-agent tag-team, Matt and Nick Jackson, a.k.a The Young Bucks, have signed exclusive contracts with Ring of Honor.
“We evaluate the landscape right now, we look around professional wrestling, and everything is evolving. Tag team wrestling is what we do, and this place [Ring of Honor] has the best tag team division in the world, and we want the best competition,” said Matt Jackson. “We want the best matches. It’s all about quality for us. We call Ring of Honor home; you’ll be seeing a lot of us.”
Since 2009, The Young Bucks have regularly fought in Ring of Honor’s tag team division and have proved to be one of the most entertaining tag teams in history, continuing to push their popularity with signature taunts and world-famous SUPERKICK parties. Ring of Honor is excited to officially be the home of the Young Bucks.
The Young Bucks will also continue to compete for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where they are part of the Bullet Club through ROH’s continued partnership. They are also 3-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and have won the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship once before, but are hungry to get the gold back again.
The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) posted on Twitter that they have signed with a major wrestling promotion and that it should be announced very soon.
Matt tweeted in response to a tweet sent out by Major League Wrestling:
The young bucks have become one of the biggest tag teams on the independent scene and around the world. They are 3-time IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champions, 4-time PWG Tag Team Champions, former ROH Tag Team Champions, and have won gold in virtually every independent promotion in North America, including Dragon Gate USA.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Update:
PWInsider reports that The Young Bucks have not signed with WWE. Most believe that they signed with Ring of Honor.
It was reported this week that WWE registered to trademark the NWO/Kliq ‘Too Sweet’ Hand gesture. New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s popular stable The Bullet Club uses the gesture.
The Bullet Club’s, The Young Bucks responded this week on Twitter and again on the microphone after their match at the FWE iPPV in Brooklyn on Wednesday. They cut a promo and said WWE will have to cut their hands off.
Here is some tweets of theirs and one Nick Jackson retweeted:
Bullet Club doesn't want knockoff/parody T-shirts sold…even as they throw up the Kliq sign& yell "2 Sweet!" It's the Bull***t Club.
Many fans last night on Twitter during SmackDown believed that WWE took a shot at The Young Bucks during the Roman Reigns and Mark Henry segment. Henry told Reigns that young bucks like him think they know it all and done it all but haven’t been nowhere.
Sean “X-Pac” Waltman weighed in on WWE trying to trademark the symbol. Here is a exchange he had with Nick of The Young Bucks on Twitter:
“@TheRealXPac: @NickJacksonYB@2CW These guys all pay tribute to us by carrying on the tradition.”Exactly. We thank you 4 paving the way.