Pro Wrestling Guerrilla ( PWG ) was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Los Angeles , California . As of 2024, it is on an extended hiatus. It is owned and operated by wrestlers themselves, having been created by Disco Machine , Excalibur , Scott Lost , Joey Ryan , Super Dragon , and Top Gun Talwar. Since then, Disco, Talwar, Ryan and Lost have retired and left the company. Since 2007, Excalibur has been the head play-by-play commentator , with a rotation of wrestlers on color commentary.
136-621: PWG may refer to: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla , an American professional wrestling promotion based in Southern California Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War , usually called People's War Group (PWG) The Printer Working Group PWG Raster , an image format created by the Printer Working Group The Working Group on Financial Markets , also known as
272-603: A Two Out of Three Falls match to win the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas. The Young Bucks made their first successful title defense on July 29, defeating The Throwbacks ( Dasher Hatfield and Mark Angelosetti ). On September 14, The Young Bucks entered the 2012 King of Trios , teaming with Mike Bennett as Team Ring of Honor and defeating the Faces of Pain ( The Barbarian , Meng and The Warlord ) in their first round match. The following day, Team ROH advanced to
408-549: A ladder match with El Generico. On December 10, Steen and Dragon, wrestling his return match, defeated The Young Bucks for the PWG World Tag Team Championship, starting Dragon's record-breaking sixth reign with the title. Also at the event, Japanese veteran Dick Togo wrestled his final match in the United States, losing to El Generico. On December 1, 2012, Joey Ryan, having recently signed
544-511: A contract that would prevent contracted TNA wrestlers from appearing on DVDs sold through any third parties, including PWG's long-time partner Highspots.com. PWG stated that after looking at several solutions, including ending their contract with Highspots, releasing their DVD solely through their website, and removing all matches featuring TNA wrestlers from their home releases, they made the decision to end their relationship with TNA and thus were no longer able to book TNA wrestlers. This resulted in
680-499: A contract with TNA, wrestled his PWG farewell match, where he was defeated by Scorpio Sky. Ryan, however, remained a part owner of PWG and eventually returned to the promotion in August 2013, following his release from TNA. On January 12, 2013, another longtime PWG wrestler, El Generico , made his final appearance for the promotion, having recently agreed to a deal with WWE. 2013 saw a multiple talented independent wrestlers debut for
816-467: A few sessions at the school. Matt, Nick and Dustin were involved in their first professional match at an Alternative Wrestling Show/C4/Revolution Pro joint event held on August 8, 2004. Matt worked as Fluffy the Dog, Dustin dressed as a hillbilly and Nick was a high flying referee wearing a Santo mask. Afterward, Matt and Nick wrestled various times for Revolution Pro and Revolution X in chicken costumes, under
952-467: A handicap Guerrilla Warfare match, Super Dragon made his first appearance in over three years and named himself Steen's partner for the match on December 10. On December 10, The Young Bucks lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship to Appetite for Destruction (Kevin Steen and Super Dragon) in a Guerrilla Warfare match, ending their second reign at 245 days. Following their title loss, The Young Bucks started
1088-595: A match for the vacant NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. This led to a match on October 10 at King of Pro-Wrestling , where The Young Bucks successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Finlay and Ricochet. On January 4, 2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome , The Young Bucks lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to Roppongi Vice. The Young Bucks regained
1224-839: A match with Davey Richards and Roderick Strong . A tournament entitled the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament , or DDT4, was held on May 19 and 20 at the Burbank Armory to crown new tag team champions, with Roderick Strong and PAC emerging the victors against the Briscoe Brothers in the tournament finals. On May 3, 2007, PWG released a statement via the PWG Message Board at PWG's official site announcing they would no longer be working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) after TNA presented them with
1360-445: A new heel stable with PWG World Champion Adam Cole and Kevin Steen, with the four dubbing themselves "The Mount Rushmore of Wrestling". On October 19, The Young Bucks defeated Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan to make their fourth successful defense of the PWG World Tag Team Championship. On March 28, 2014, The Young Bucks defeated 2014 DDT4 winners Chuck Taylor and Trent? for their fifth successful title defense. The Young Bucks lost
1496-572: A new number one contender for X Division Champion Kazarian. In the first match of the tournament, Max defeated Amazing Red and Chris Sabin in a three-way match to advance to the final at Against All Odds . The following week, Jeremy defeated Douglas Williams and Jay Lethal in another three-way match to also advance to the final. However, both Max and Jeremy were forced to miss the final of the tournament at Against All Odds, after failing to get to Florida due to travel issues. The following month at Victory Road , both Max and Jeremy received their shot at
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#17327765686841632-562: A new two-year contract, which covers both ROH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). On March 4, 2017, The Young Bucks lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to The Hardys ( Broken Matt and Brother Nero ). On April 1 at Supercard of Honor XI , The Young Bucks regained the ROH World Tag Team Championship from The Hardys in a ladder match. On August 20, The Young Bucks became double champions, when they teamed with their Bullet Club stablemate Adam Page to form
1768-580: A non-title ladder match. Generation Me returned to pay-per-view on September 5 at No Surrender , where they replaced London Brawling ( Desmond Wolfe and Magnus ) and unsuccessfully challenged the Motor City Machine Guns for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. After the match, Generation Me turned heel by attacking the champions and giving Alex Shelley a storyline injury with a double rope-hung DDT . On
1904-575: A purported PayPal error caused fans to order more tickets than originally allocated for the show "Time is a Flat Circle". This meant that PWG had to run the show outside of their usual home of Reseda, CA, for the first time in over six years. The show instead took place at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, CA. In March 2018, PWG announced that they were leaving Reseda, CA. Although PWG officials tried to book later dates at American Legion Hall,
2040-626: A regular tag team match on April 28, and then defeating the Batiri (Kobald and Kodama), Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Jakob Hammermeier and Tim Donst), and the Spectral Envoy ( Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black ) in a four-way elimination match on April 29 to earn the right to challenge for the Campeonatos de Parejas. On June 2 at Chikarasaurus Rex: How to Hatch a Dinosaur , The Young Bucks defeated F.I.S.T. (Chuck Taylor and Johnny Gargano) in
2176-599: A rivalry with Super Smash Bros. ( Player Uno and Stupefied ); on March 17, the Super Smash Bros. picked up their first PWG win by defeating The Young Bucks in a three-way match, which also included the RockNES Monsters. On April 21, The Young Bucks attempted to win their third DDT4 tournament and earn a rematch with Appetite for Destruction, but suffered another loss against the Super Smash Bros. in their first round match. On May 25, The Young Bucks and
2312-495: A show on July 29, 2007 at the Burbank Armory in Burbank. The event was scheduled to have The Briscoe Brothers on the card, but the team did not appear at the event which caused the card to be changed. The show ended up seeing Bryan Danielson defeat Necro Butcher in a Street Fight , Kevin Steen and El Generico defeat Roderick Strong and PAC for the PWG World Tag Team Championship, and Bryan Danielson defeat El Generico to become
2448-586: A similar role on the October 17, 2008, episode of SmackDown , this time losing to Big Show in an exhibition Last Man Standing match after going through a table. On the October 28 episode of ECW , the Young Bucks portrayed Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a segment, where they were laid out by John Morrison and The Miz . On August 15, 2011, the Young Bucks had a tryout for the WWE producers prior to
2584-403: A span of two years. In April 2005, PWG ran its first All Star Weekend shows during the weekend of WrestleMania 21 and drew their biggest crowds at the time. PWG booked several stars such as A.J. Styles, Christopher Daniels, James Gibson , Chris Sabin , Jonny Storm , Kendo Kashin , Samoa Joe, and many other TNA and ROH stars to participate in the weekend's events. In September 2005, PWG ran
2720-768: A surprise appearance at a PWG show and wrestled for the world title merely 24 hours after his release. In September 2009, Bryan Danielson ended the longest PWG World title reign (at the time) in PWG history when he defeated Chris Hero . After winning, Danielson forfeited the title to sign with WWE . A new champion was crowned at the 2009 Battle of Los Angeles , won by Kenny Omega . On January 30, 2010, PWG held Kurt Russellreunion, as part of WrestleReunion , in front of their biggest crowd ever and featured Jushin Thunder Liger , The Great Muta , Super Crazy and Rob Van Dam in his first U.S. independent wrestling appearance plus
2856-522: A tag team match. The Young Bucks returned to Chikara on August 27, when Nick entered the Young Lions Cup IX tournament , while Matt defeated Johnny Gargano in a singles match. After Nick was eliminated from the tournament by eventual Young Lions Cup Champion Tadasuke , The Young Bucks teamed up to defeat The Batiri (Kodama and Obariyon) in a tag team match later that same day. On September 18, The Young Bucks defeated Tim Donst and Tursas of
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#17327765686842992-473: A three-way match to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the second time. On April 5 at Invasion Attack 2015 , The Young Bucks lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero) in their first title defense. The Young Bucks regained the title from Roppongi Vice on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2015 in a three-way match, also involving reDRagon. They made their first successful title defense in
3128-728: A three-way match, also involving reDRagon. In early 2016, The Young Bucks formed Bullet Club subgroup The Elite with Kenny Omega, after helping him kick A.J. Styles out of the stable. On February 20 at Honor Rising: Japan 2016 , The Elite defeated Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship . They lost the title to Hiroshi Tanahashi , Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu on April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016 , before regaining it on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016 . On June 19 at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall , The Young Bucks won
3264-478: A three-way rematch on July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall . They lost the title to reDRagon in their second defense on August 16. The Young Bucks won the title for the record-tying fourth time in a four-way match on January 4, 2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome . Their reign ended in their first defense on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka , where they were defeated by Matt Sydal and Ricochet in
3400-639: A trio named "The Hung Bucks" and defeated Dalton Castle and The Boys for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship . On September 22 at Death Before Dishonor XV , The Young Bucks lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to The Motor City Machine Guns. At Ring Of Honor's Final Battle they lost to the Briscoes and SCU in a Ladder war match. The next day the Bucks left ROH. According to them, they would never leave ROH if
3536-499: Is a graphic designer and creates website and DVD cover artwork; Super Dragon has been the sole booker since 2010, along with editing shows and composing YouTube previews. In May 2003, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla announced its first show that would take place on July 26. The promotion released an online press release announcing the show's main event that would feature what would have been the first match to take place between A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe . PWG announced more matches in
3672-485: Is battling with cancer. In November 2023, the Globe Theatre (PWG's home base since 2018) announced it was closing down with immediate effect. As of November 26, 2024 Below mentioned is a list of some major events held by PWG annually: The Young Bucks The Young Bucks are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Matthew Massie and Nicholas Massie , who perform under
3808-457: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pro Wrestling Guerrilla The promotion debuted on July 26, 2003, and became known for its unique mix of humor and pro wrestling as well as their over-the-top press releases and show titles, such as " Kee_ The _ee Out of Our _ool! ", " Free Admission (Just Kidding) ", " Straight to DVD " and " From Parts Well Known ". In 2016, Dave Meltzer of
3944-568: The Raw tapings in San Diego . The Young Bucks made their Chikara debuts on March 27, 2009, teaming up with El Generico to form Team PWG in the annual King of Trios tournament. However, the team was eliminated in the first round by The Osirian Portal of Amasis, Ophidian and Escorpion Egipcio. The following night Matt and Nick entered the Rey de Voladores tournament, but were both eliminated in
4080-1314: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter called PWG "the best wrestling in North America". Pro Wrestling Guerrilla commonly runs shows every month, which are then usually sold via DVD and Blu-ray. The promotion's flagship event, The Battle of Los Angeles , is held annually between August and September. The BOLA tournament has attracted numerous famous wrestlers since its inception, including Adam Cole , AJ Styles , Austin Aries , Brian Cage , Bryan Danielson , Candice LeRae , Chris Hero , Christopher Daniels , Claudio Castagnoli , Colt Cabana , Cody Rhodes , Davey Richards , Drew Galloway/Drew McIntyre , El Generico/Sami Zayn , Frankie Kazarian , Johnny Gargano , Jeff Cobb , Keith Lee , Kenny Omega , Kevin Steen/Owens , Kyle O'Reilly , Low Ki , Pentagón Jr. , Rey Fenix , Ricochet , Roderick Strong , Tommaso Ciampa , Tyler Black/Seth Rollins , Walter/Gunther , Will Ospreay , The Young Bucks , and Zack Sabre Jr. Co-owners Excalibur and Super Dragon are responsible for all behind-the-scenes details. Excalibur
4216-438: The 13th Anniversary Show ended with another win for reDRagon. On September 30, 2016, The Young Bucks defeated The Addiction ( Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian ) and The Motor City Machine Guns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ) in a three-way Ladder War VI at All Star Extravaganza VIII to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the second time. On December 3, it was reported that The Young Bucks had signed
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4352-458: The 2013 Tag World Grand Prix . After wins over The Baltic Siege (Estonian ThunderFrog and Latvian Proud Oak ), The Spectral Envoy (Frightmare and Hallowicked) and The Batiri (Kodama and Obariyon), The Young Bucks were defeated in the final of the tournament by Pieces of Hate (Jigsaw and The Shard). The Young Bucks returned to Chikara in September 2015, when they teamed with A.J. Styles in
4488-525: The 2015 King of Trios , making it to the final, before losing to Aero Star , Drago and Fénix. Matt and Nick made their Ring of Honor (ROH) debut on May 29 and 30, 2009, defeating the teams of Sal Rinauro and Brandon Day and Silas Young and Bobby Fish , respectively, in matches taped for the June 27 and July 18 episodes of Ring of Honor Wrestling on HDNet . On September 26, 2009, at Glory by Honor VIII: The Final Countdown , they defeated the, at
4624-518: The Bruderschaft des Kreuzes in a tag team match. On November 13 at Chikara's first ever internet pay-per-view, High Noon , The Young Bucks, managed by Marty Jannetty, were defeated by The Colony (Fire Ant and Soldier Ant) in a Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas number one contender's match. The Young Bucks returned to Chikara in late April 2012, first defeating Arik Cannon and Darin Corbin in
4760-613: The Forever Hooligans ( Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero ) in what was billed as a dream tag team match. On March 8, 2014, the Young Bucks defeated reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time. They lost the title back to reDRagon on May 17 at War of the Worlds . The Young Bucks received a rematch for the title on September 6 at All Star Extravaganza 6, but were again defeated by reDRagon. Another rematch on March 1, 2015, at
4896-713: The G1 Climax 28 , the Super Villains lost their NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Tama Tonga , Tanga Loa and Taiji Ishimori , all a part of the rebellious Bullet Club sub-faction Bullet Club OG. At Fighting Spirit Unleashed , they lost the Heavyweight Tag Team Titles to Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa. At Wrestle Kingdom 13 , The Young Bucks participated in a 3-way match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship against
5032-485: The Hollywood / Los Feliz Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. The first show in the new building saw A.J. Styles take on Rocky Romero , CM Punk versus Super Dragon, Samoa Joe and Ricky Reyes versus Bryan Danielson and Christopher Daniels, and a loser leaves town, steel cage match between Adam Pearce and Frankie Kazarian where Adam Pearce ended up losing the match and left PWG. After this event, PWG would run at
5168-638: The IWGP and AAA World Tag Team Champions once each. They were also the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions with Elite teammate Omega. All totalled between AEW, ROH, NJPW, and AAA, they have held eight world tag team championships, seven junior heavyweight tag team championships, and eight six-man/trios championships (with various partners). In 2001, the Massie family put a wrestling ring in their backyard, where brothers Matt, Nick and Malachi taught themselves how to wrestle by impersonating what they saw on television. At
5304-667: The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship for the third time, this time with Marty Scurll under the team name Super Villains. At Dominion , they defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón ( Evil and Sanada ) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the first time, becoming the second tag team to win the IWGP Jr. and Heavyweight Tag Team titles, and the first duo to have won all three of NJPW's team championships (IWGP Tag Team, IWGP Jr. Tag Team, and NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team) together. On August 12 during
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5576-601: The Warriors-5 of Cima and Susumu Yokosuka. On September 6 at the second PPV titled Untouchable , they were defeated in the main event by the Real Hazard of Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi . On November 28 at Freedom Fight , the Young Bucks wrestled in the same 6-way Open the Freedom Gate Championship tournament match, which was won by Gran Akuma . After signing contracts with TNA Wrestling,
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5712-646: The ring names Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson . As of January 2019 , they are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are also executive vice presidents and co-founders of the company. As performers in AEW, they are three-time and AEW World Tag Team Champions , and were the inaugural and two-time AEW World Trios Champions with Kenny Omega as The Elite . The Young Bucks are also known for their work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where they became members of
5848-492: The 8th and losing to the Briscoes in an ROH World Tag Team Title match on the 9th. On January 29 the Young Bucks wrestled their ROH farewell match, an eight-man tag team match, where they teamed up with the Briscoe Brothers in a losing effort against the American Wolves and The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli). On July 23, Matt and Nick returned using their Generation Me name and were defeated by
5984-490: The American Wolves. The following day they were defeated by the ROH World Tag Team Champions, Kings of Wrestling, in a non–title match. After the Young Bucks were granted a release from TNA, ROH announced on August 24, 2011, that they would return to the promotion on September 17 at Death Before Dishonor IX . At the pay-per-view The Young Bucks defeated Future Shock (Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly) and
6120-552: The Bravado Brothers in a three-way elimination match. On December 23 at Final Battle 2011 , The Young Bucks won a four team gauntlet match to earn a shot at the ROH World Tag Team Championship. At the 10th Anniversary Show on March 4, The Young Bucks were unsuccessful in their title challenge. The Young Bucks left ROH later in the year, last competing at a Ring of Honor Wrestling television taping on August 3, where they lost to Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander in
6256-511: The Bucks had signed contracts with TNA Wrestling, Matt and Nick announced that from now on they would be known by their TNA names, Max and Jeremy of Generation Me. They turned on Brian Kendrick, only for him to be saved by his old tag team partner Paul London . Later in the night, the team of London and Kendrick defeated Generation Me in a non-title match. Despite the announcement made by the Young Bucks, PWG still continues to refer to them under their original team and singles names. On April 10,
6392-777: The Bucks made their debut at the Mexican promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) as part of partnership with All Elite Wrestling at the Rey de Reyes event where they challenged the newly crowned AAA World Tag Team Champions the Lucha Brothers ( Pentagón Jr. and Fénix ) who defeated Los Mercenarios ( El Texano Jr. & Rey Escorpión ). Later that same night, the Bucks defeated the Lucha Brothers to win their titles, this being their first championship in Mexico. They lost
6528-640: The Bucks received a rematch for the World Tag Team titles in the first ever tag team Guerrilla Warfare match , a three-way match, also involving the Cutler Brothers, where ¡Peligro Abejas! ended up retaining the Championship. In the first round of the 2010 Battle of Los Angeles Matt and Nick were paired up against each other, but instead of wrestling the match, they got themselves disqualified by superkicking referee Rick Knox . Afterwards
6664-603: The Campeonatos de Parejas against the Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black). The Young Bucks' third successful defense took place at the Under the Hood internet pay-per-view on December 2, where they defeated 1–2–3 Kid and Marty Jannetty. On February 10, 2013, The Young Bucks lost the Campeonatos de Parejas to 3.0 (Scott Parker and Shane Matthews), ending their reign at 253 days and three successful defenses. On May 18, The Young Bucks returned to Chikara to take part in
6800-470: The Cutler Brothers challenged the Young Bucks to a match, in which they finally managed to defeat their nemesis tag team. On March 4, 2011, the Young Bucks entered the 2011 DDT4 tournament , which was this time used to determine new number one contenders to the ¡Peligro Abejas!. In their first round match, the Young Bucks defeated Brandon Gatson and Willie Mack . Later in the evening they defeated The American Wolves ( Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards ) in
6936-456: The Elite , a YouTube web series created by and featuring The Elite. Also announced in the episode was "Double or Nothing", AEW's inaugural event and sequel to "All In". On January 2, 2019, Cody and The Young Bucks officially signed five-year contracts with the promotion, serving as AEW's executive vice presidents , while entrepreneur, football executive and longtime wrestling fan Tony Khan
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#17327765686847072-730: The Essen event in Kent , England . Both shows featured the majority of PWG's regular roster, along with several European wrestlers. In July 2006, PWG announced that they would be leaving the JCC due to the gym being turned into a gymnastics training center for young children. The final match in the building saw Joey Ryan defend the PWG World Championship against B-Boy in a steel cage match. PWG would go on to run in Reseda, California , for
7208-511: The Fall ( Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black ) to become the new PWG World Tag Team Champions. One of The Young Bucks' biggest accomplishments in PWG came at the annual DDT4 tag team tournament on May 22, 2009, in Reseda, California, when they defended the titles three times in one night. They defeated Dustin and Brandon Cutler in the first round, Kenny Omega and Chuck Taylor in the second round and
7344-699: The Forever Hooligans. The Young Bucks made their fifth successful defense on May 10 during the NJPW and ROH co-produced Global Wars event in Toronto , defeating Forever Hooligans and Time Splitters in a three-way match. From May 30 to June 6, The Young Bucks took part in the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, where they wrestled in separate blocks. They both finished with a record of four wins and three losses, narrowly missing advancement to
7480-656: The Hollywood/Los Feliz JCC for the next two years, and was nicknamed "The Sweatbox" by its fans due to the heat that the building would generate during warm nights. PWG's popularity continued to grow in the Southern California area, and across the world thanks to PWG distributing their own DVDs on their website, and through various reviews posted on many popular internet wrestling message boards. As PWG went on, their normal attendance numbers would begin to grow from 150–200 fans per show to 250–500 in
7616-538: The Hybrid Dolphins ( Bryan Danielson and Roderick Strong ) in the final round to win the tournament. At that same event their younger brother Malachi made his PWG debut, losing to Phoenix Star. Around that time, after the Young Bucks started touring the World, the PWG crowds started turning on them. On July 31, 2009, at Threemendous II , PWG's sixth anniversary show, the Young Bucks suffered their first loss in
7752-501: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the fifth time by defeating Matt Sydal and Ricochet, reDRagon and Roppongi Vice in a four-way elimination match. On July 3, The Young Bucks and Omega lost the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Matt Sydal, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima . On August 21, The Young Bucks made their first successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against
7888-682: The Kaos and Mongol, the Santino Brothers. Later on, another promoter decided that Matt and Nick needed a surname and came up with "Jackson", which the two have used ever since. With the help of HRW, Matt and Nick eventually landed spots in several popular companies in Southern California. They also gained experience working in front of a camera doing television tapings for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) starting in 2006. The Young Bucks filmed their first matches for
8024-399: The Motor City Machine Guns coming out victorious. On December 5 at Final Resolution , Generation Me challenged the Motor City Machine Guns for the World Tag Team Championship in a Full Metal Mayhem match , but were once again unsuccessful. The following month, they signed new two–year contracts with the company. On the January 27 episode of Impact! , TNA started a tournament to determine
8160-536: The Motor City Machine Guns defeated Generation Me to retain the TNA World Tag Team Championship. The following month, Generation Me received a new fan in Tara . After Jeremy pinned Sabin in an eight-person tag team match, where Generation Me teamed with Robbie E and Cookie and the Motor City Machine Guns with Jay Lethal and Velvet Sky , on the November 18 episode of Impact! , the Motor City Machine Guns challenged Generation Me to an Empty Arena match . The match took place later that same night on Reaction , with
8296-424: The NJPW faction Bullet Club ; after a "civil war" in 2018, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, "Hangman" Adam Page , Marty Scurll , and Cody Rhodes were kicked out of the Bullet Club and went on to form The Elite. They have performed for various American independent promotions – most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) – and had previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Generation Me under
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#17327765686848432-532: The NWA on Maverick Television on November 7, 2006, when they were defeated by Karl Anderson and Joey Ryan . HRW closed in 2009. The Young Bucks debuted for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) on June 10, 2007, in Burbank, California at Roger Dorn Night, losing to Arrogance ( Chris Bosh and Scott Lost ). On August 31, 2007, PWG held the first night of the 2007 Battle of Los Angeles tournament, where The Young Bucks picked up their first tag team victory in PWG by defeating Phoenix Star and Zokre, Los Luchas . At
8568-588: The PWG World Tag Team Championship to Candice LeRae and Joey Ryan in a Guerrilla Warfare match on July 27, 2014. On June 26, 2015, The Young Bucks defeated Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the fourth time, following outside interference from PWG World Champion Roderick Strong. After the match, The Young Bucks, Strong and the returning Super Dragon formed Mount Rushmore 2.0. They made their first successful title defenses against Angélico and Jack Evans on July 24, and Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa on December 11. At
8704-441: The PWG World Tag Team Championship. The Young Bucks made their next title defense on September 10, defeating the Dynasty (Joey Ryan and Scorpio Sky). On October 22, The Young Bucks made their fifth successful title defense by defeating Future Shock ( Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly ), before interfering in the main event and costing Kevin Steen the PWG World Championship in his ladder match with El Generico. After challenging Steen to
8840-410: The PWG logo, marking the first time the promotion’s logo had appeared on WWE programming. During the post-show press conference, Owens and Zayn thanked both Super Dragon and the entire PWG for helping them in their careers. PWG was forced into a second hiatus in August 2023 when Super Dragon announced there would be no more PWG shows for the indefinite future as he needed to attend to his girlfriend, who
8976-531: The Super Smash Bros. faced each other in a No Disqualification match to determine the new PWG World Tag Team Champions. In the end, The Young Bucks suffered their third straight loss against their rival team. On July 21 at Threemendous III , PWG's ninth anniversary event, The Young Bucks unsuccessfully challenged the Super Smash Bros. for the PWG World Tag Team Championship in a three-way ladder match, which also included Future Shock, losing following interference from referee Rick Knox, whom they had attacked earlier in
9112-452: The Ultimate Gate 2013, The Young Bucks defeated A. R. Fox and Cima to become the new Open the United Gate Champions. They made their first successful title defense on June 2 at an event promoted by DGUSA's close affiliate, Evolve , defeating Eita and Tomahawk T.T. Their second successful defense took place on July 28 at Enter the Dragon 2013, Dragon Gate USA's fourth anniversary event, where they defeated Rich Swann and Ricochet. They lost
9248-454: The X Division Championship, held by Kazarian, in an Ultimate X match, which also included Robbie E. Prior to the match, the brothers teased dissension, with Max claiming that their goal was to make him the X Division Champion. At the end of the match, Jeremy and Max finally started fighting between themselves, but in the end both of them failed in their attempt to win the X Division Championship, as Kazarian emerged victorious to successfully retain
9384-402: The Young Bucks made PWG history by making their thirteenth successful title defense against The Briscoe Brothers ( Jay and Mark ). On May 9, the Young Bucks entered the 2010 DDT4 tournament and were for the second year in a row set to defend the Tag Team Championship three times in one night. The Bucks defeated Johnny Goodtime and Jerome Robinson in the first round and the Cutler Brothers in
9520-438: The Young Bucks made their fourth appearance for DGUSA on January 23, 2010, at Fearless , where they competed in a three-way elimination tag team match, which was won by the Muscle Outlaw'z (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino). They were advertised to take part in the March 26 and 27 shows in Phoenix, Arizona , but TNA made the decision to pull them from the events. However, in February, TNA and Dragon Gate USA came to an agreement and
9656-447: The Young Bucks to a contract. The contracts signed were one year long. According to Eric Bischoff , TNA executive Bob Ryder was responsible for getting The Young Bucks their break in TNA. The team, renamed Generation Me, made their debut on the January 14, 2010, episode of Impact! , in which the brothers, renamed Max and Jeremy, defeated the Motor City Machine Guns. On the February 18 episode of Impact! , Jeremy and Max were given
9792-482: The Young Bucks were allowed to make their farewell appearances. In March, the Young Bucks made their final appearances for the company, losing to Cima, Gamma and Dragon Kid at Open the Ultimate Gate on the 26 in a six-man tag team match, where they teamed with Jack Evans and losing to Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw in a tag team match at the tapings of Mercury Rising on the 27. The Young Bucks returned to
9928-676: The age of 18 or 19, Matt began his professional wrestling training in La Mirada and City of Industry, California , at the Revolution Pro Wrestling School called Rudos Dojo, training primarily under Ron Rivera (The American Wild Child), Disco Machine , Scorpio Sky and Super Dragon , among others. Matt attended the school with his good friend Dustin Cutler, and the two taught what they learned to their friends back home. Eventually Nick joined his brother and attended
10064-477: The annual torneo cibernetico match. Matt scored the first elimination of the match, eliminating Green Ant , but the brothers wound up being the fifth and sixth wrestlers eliminated from the match at the hands of Quackenbush and Player Dos . The Young Bucks returned to Chikara on April 23, 2010, at the 2010 King of Trios , where they teamed up with their brother Malachi as the Jackson 3. They were, however, for
10200-402: The champions Guerrillas of Destiny and Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil), but lost the match. On February 7, 2019, their profiles were removed from NJPW website. In May 2017, wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer suggested that an independent wrestling show would be unable to sell out a ten thousand seat arena in the United States. The Young Bucks, along with Cody Rhodes , challenged
10336-400: The company in sixteen months, losing a non-title match to the re-united 2 Skinny Black Guys ( Human Tornado and El Generico ). Despite their win and the Young Bucks' wishes, Tornado and Generico never received their rematch for the titles as the following month they lost the number one contendership to The Men of Low Moral Fiber (Kenny Omega and Chuck Taylor), whom the Young Bucks defeated for
10472-801: The company spanned from May 14 to June 14. Their second tour started on August 9, 2008, and ended on August 28, 2008. On September 5, 2008, the Young Bucks took part in Dragon Gate's first show in the United States, held in Los Angeles, California, where they unsuccessfully challenged Saito and Yokosuka for the Open the Twin Gate Championship . Their third tour spanned from April 15 to May 5, 2009. On May 3, 2009, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa , Matt and Nick successfully defended their PWG World Tag Team titles against Shingo Takagi and Akira Tozawa ,
10608-826: The debuts of Aussie Open, Latin American Exchange and Jonathan Gresham . PWG went on a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic and did not hold any events throughout 2020. PWG's first show in almost two years was Mystery Vortex 7 in 2021. The 2023 Battle of Los Angeles saw the surprise PWG debut of All Elite Wrestling star Chris Jericho , an eight-time world champion, having held the AEW , ROH , WCW , WWE Undisputed , and WWE World Heavyweight Championships . During their main event match of WrestleMania 39 Night One , Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn both wore ring gear that featured
10744-505: The end of the match, Matt legitimately broke his hand. Later that same event, Nick confronted and challenged IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Kota Ibushi . Nick received his title shot on April 3, but was defeated by Ibushi. Three days later at Invasion Attack 2014 , The Young Bucks successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Ibushi and El Desperado . On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2014 , The Young Bucks made their fourth successful title defense against
10880-413: The end of the match, Max, thinking Jeremy was trying to steal the spotlight from him, turned on his brother, crotching him at the top rope, before dropping him to the mat with a rope-hung DDT. After Kendrick had pinned Jeremy for the win, Max removed his Generation Me armband and threw it at his brother. On April 17 at Lockdown , Max defeated seven other men, including Jeremy, in an Xscape match to become
11016-591: The end of the show, Adam Cole made a surprise return to PWG, joining Mount Rushmore 2.0. On March 18, 2017, The Young Bucks lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship to Penta el Zero M and Rey Fenix in a three-way match, also involving Matt Sydal and Ricochet . The Young Bucks made their debut for Dragon Gate (DG) in Tokyo, Japan at the Korakuen Hall on May 14, 2008, in a match where they were defeated by Susumu Yokosuka and Ryo Saito . Their first tour of
11152-524: The event, The Young Bucks along with Kota Ibushi defeated Bandido , Rey Fénix , and Rey Mysterio in the main event. On November 5, 2018, several trademarks were filed in Jacksonville, Florida that indicated the launch of All Elite Wrestling (AEW). In December 2018, Cody, The Young Bucks and several other wrestlers left ROH. The official announcement of AEW's creation came at midnight Pacific Time on January 1, 2019, in an episode of Being
11288-429: The final of the 2014 Super Jr. Tag Tournament , where they were defeated by reDRagon. On January 4, 2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome , The Young Bucks unsuccessfully challenged reDRagon for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a four-way match also involving Forever Hooligans and Time Splitters. On February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka , The Young Bucks defeated reDRagon and Time Splitters in
11424-627: The final to win the DDT4 tournament for the third time. The Young Bucks made their second successful defense of the PWG World Tag Team Championship on March 23 against the DojoBros (Eddie Edwards and Roderick Strong). On August 9 at PWG's tenth anniversary event, The Young Bucks defeated the DojoBros and the Inner City Machine Guns in a three-way ladder match for their third successful title defense. On August 31, The Young Bucks formed
11560-509: The first annual Battle of Los Angeles tournament, featuring A.J. Styles, Christopher Daniels, James Gibson, Super Dragon, Kevin Steen , El Generico , and several others. Chris Bosh would end up winning the tournament by defeating A.J. Styles in the finals. In February 2006, PWG held two shows in Europe . The first event was held in Essen , Germany . The second show was held the night after
11696-428: The first night of All Star Weekend 8 , The Young Bucks made the first successful defense of their second title reign, defeating the RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime and Johnny Yuma). The following night, The Young Bucks defeated Austin Aries and Roderick Strong to retain the title. On August 20, The Young Bucks defeated The Kings of Wrestling ( Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli ) in an unadvertised match to retain
11832-510: The first round four-way matches. On the third night of the tournament they took part in a tag team gauntlet match, which was won by Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw . The Young Bucks returned to Chikara on October 17 at An Optimistic View of a Pessimistic World competing in a four-way elimination tag team match, where they were the last team eliminated by the winners The Osirian Portal of Amasis and Ophidian. The following day at Cibernetico Increible Matt and Nick joined opposing eight-man teams in
11968-417: The first round, they were eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Team 3D ( Bully Ray and Devon ). At the tapings of the following day's Hardcore Justice 2 pay-per-view, Generation Me was defeated in a ladder match by Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian). At the renamed Impact Wrestling's Against All Odds event on June 12, 2021, The Young Bucks made a one-off appearance for
12104-631: The first time the titles had been defended in Japan. On May 5, 2009, in Aichi , Japan at the Dead or Alive pay-per-view , The Young Bucks and Ryoma teamed up in a losing effort against Akira Tozawa, Kenshin Chikano and Anthony W. Mori . On February 22, 2008, Matt appeared as a jobber on World Wrestling Entertainment 's (WWE) weekly television show SmackDown , losing to Chuck Palumbo . He appeared in
12240-486: The following episode of Impact! , Max and Jeremy laid claim to the TNA World Tag Team Championship, claiming that the champions would not be able to defend them for 30 days, due to Shelley's injury, before stealing Sabin's title belt. Shelley, however, made his return two weeks later and promised Generation Me a rematch for the World Tag Team Championship at Bound for Glory . At the pay-per-view,
12376-599: The following show, on January 27, the Young Bucks received their first shot at the PWG World Tag Team Championship , but were once again defeated by the Dynasty. During the next two months the Young Bucks participated in the 2008 DDT4 qualifier series, where they lost to T. J. Perkins and Hook Bomberry, defeated Ronin and Scorpio Sky and drew with Los Luchas, before losing a deciding four-way elimination match to Los Luchas, who then advanced to
12512-507: The idea by planning a show specifically for the purposes of drawing ten thousand fans. In May 2018, it was announced that the show would be named " All In ", and would be held on September 1, 2018, at the Sears Centre Arena , including many popular wrestlers from various promotions such as Ring of Honor , New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the independent circuit. When All In was announced on May 13, tickets sold out in 30 minutes. At
12648-557: The last name Buck. At Destination X , Generation Me wrestled for the number one contendership to the TNA World Tag Team Championship in an Ultimate X match , but were defeated by the Motor City Machine Guns. Max and Jeremy spent the next months mainly wrestling singles matches. On the July 8 episode of Impact! , Jeremy picked up a major singles victory, defeating X Division Champion Douglas Williams in
12784-414: The loss of Frankie Kazarian, the first holder of the PWG World Championship, The Motor City Machine Guns of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin , who were already booked to compete in the tournament for the vacated PWG World Tag Team Championship, and Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Low Ki , and Christopher Daniels, all of whom had been booked to appear on upcoming shows. PWG celebrated their fourth anniversary with
12920-461: The main event of HRW's "Highway 2 Hell" on August 4, 2007, Matt and Nick teamed up with Marty Jannetty ín a six-man tag, where they defeated Joey Ryan , Karl Anderson and Diablo. On February 26, 2005, at a show for Full Contact Wrestling, Matt and Nick were called "The Young Bucks" for the first time. Originally, Matt was wrestling under the name "Mr. Instant Replay", while Nick was called "Slick Nick". That night The Young Bucks were defeated by
13056-517: The match. On January 12, 2013, The Young Bucks entered the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament , defeating the Inner City Machine Guns ( Rich Swann and Ricochet) in their opening match. Later that same event, The Young Bucks defeated the Unbreakable F'N Machines ( Brian Cage and Michael Elgin ) in their semifinal match to capture the PWG World Tag Team Championship for the third time. They defeated El Generico and Kevin Steen in
13192-776: The names Max Buck and Jeremy Buck . On the independent circuit , they have won numerous titles as well, including four reigns as PWG World Tag Team Champions as well as being the only team to win PWG's annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament on three occasions ( 2009 , 2011 , and 2013 ). They have held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship seven times, three reigns as ROH World Tag Team Champions , three reigns as NJPW's NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Kenny Omega and once with Marty Scurll), three reigns as ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions (twice with Page and once with Cody Rhodes), and
13328-679: The new PWG World Champion after issuing a challenge to him that ended up leading to an impromptu match to close the show. The show drew 500 fans, which tied the record for the largest live crowd to witness a PWG event. The show also made Southern California wrestling history, as five matches from the event were ranked in the Top 5 of the SoCalUncensored.com's monthly rankings, an accomplishment no other promotion had been able to achieve. In February 2009, PWG made some notable wrestling news when recently WWE released Colt Cabana (Scotty Goldman) made
13464-491: The new champions. The Young Bucks returned to New Japan on January 4, 2014, at Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome , where they made their first successful title defense in a four-way match against the Forever Hooligans, Suzuki-gun and Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida ). The Young Bucks made their second successful title defense on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka against the Time Splitters. Towards
13600-533: The new contract would give them more money, but the offer they got was under their expectations. On April 1, 2022, the Young Bucks would return to ROH, now owned by AEW President Tony Khan, at Supercard of Honor XV , attacking the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark Briscoe). On July 25, 2009, the Young Bucks appeared on Dragon Gate USA 's (DGUSA) first pay-per-view Enter the Dragon , where they defeated
13736-486: The next few months at the local American Legion post. In February 2007, PWG moved to the Van Nuys Armory, which is located a few minutes away from the Reseda venue. In March 2007, PWG's Commissioner of Food and Beverage Excalibur stripped Cape Fear (El Generico and Quicksilver ) of the PWG World Tag Team Championship when Quicksilver was unable to compete because of a class two concussion he suffered during
13872-521: The number one contender to Kazarian's X Division Championship. On the May 5 episode of Impact! , Generation Me, seemingly once again on the same page as faces , came together with Amazing Red and Brian Kendrick to fight for X Division's future, after the legitimate firing of Jay Lethal. On May 15 at Sacrifice , Max failed in his attempt to win the X Division Championship from Kazarian. At the all X Division pay-per-view Destination X on July 10, Generation Me
14008-421: The opening round of a tournament to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions. The Young Bucks returned at All-Star Extravaganza V on August 3, where they were defeated by Adrenaline Rush ( A. C. H. and TaDarius Thomas) in their return match; a three-way match, which also included C&C Wrestle Factory (Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander). On August 17 at Manhattan Mayhem V , The Young Bucks were defeated by
14144-521: The promotion as part of the working relationship between Impact and All Elite Wrestling. During the main event, an Impact World Championship title defense by Elite stablemate Kenny Omega against Moose that took place at AEW's "home field" of Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida , the Bucks interfered on Omega's behalf, leading to his victory in the match. On October 15, 2013, NJPW announced that The Young Bucks would be making their debuts for
14280-458: The promotion in the 2013 Super Jr. Tag Tournament , which started October 25. They got the booking through Kazuchika Okada , whom they had befriended during his stay in TNA. In their debut, The Young Bucks represented the heel foreigner stable Bullet Club . In their debut match for the promotion, The Young Bucks defeated fellow Americans Beretta and Brian Kendrick, thanks to a pre-match assault by
14416-526: The promotion on January 27, 2012, defeating Chuck Taylor and Scorpio Sky in a tag team match. The Young Bucks returned to DGUSA on January 25, 2013, defeating D.U.F. (Arik Cannon and Sami Callihan ) in a tag team match. At the following day's iPPV, The Young Bucks picked up another win over the Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito), before going on to lose against the team of Akira Tozawa and A. R. Fox during another iPPV on January 27. On April 6 at Open
14552-529: The promotion on October 30, when they and Anderson were defeated by Gedo , Jado and Okada, who pinned Nick for the win. On November 6, The Young Bucks first defeated Gedo and Jado in the semifinals and then another Chaos team, the Forever Hooligans, in the final to win the 2013 Super Jr. Tag Tournament. As a result of their win, The Young Bucks received a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and on November 9 at Power Struggle , defeated Suzuki-gun ( Taichi and Taka Michinoku ) to become
14688-505: The promotion, while in December, two longtime PWG wrestlers, Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards , also made their final appearances for the promotion. Also in December, Chris Hero, who had recently been released from WWE, returned to PWG. In August 2014, Kevin Steen, who had worked regularly for PWG since 2005, left the promotion for WWE. In an interview on WWE's official website, Steen credited PWG for getting him signed, mentioning how he
14824-484: The promotion, with the likes of Johnny Gargano , Jay Lethal , Samuray del Sol , Trent? , A. C. H. , Anthony Nese and Tommaso Ciampa all debuting between All Star Weekend in March and Battle of Los Angeles in August. 2013 also saw several wrestlers depart PWG for WWE's developmental territory NXT . In June, Sami Callihan and Samuray del Sol, neither of whom had spent much time in PWG, wrestled their final matches for
14960-511: The quickly aborted feud between the brothers. Matt has also stated that after leaving TNA he was ready to quit professional wrestling altogether, before he and his brother decided to instead reinvent themselves and their act. On March 18, 2013, Generation Me returned to TNA to take part in the tapings of the Tag Team Tournament One Night Only pay-per-view. After defeating Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt in
15096-440: The record for most successful title defenses with thirteen. Their record-setting reign ended on May 9, 2010, when ¡Peligro Abejas! (El Generico and Paul London , (literal translation: Danger Bees!)) defeated them to become the new champions. On July 30, 2010 at PWG's seventh anniversary show, one of the company's founders, Scott Lost, wrestled his retirement match against Scorpio Sky. On September 13, 2010, Davey Richards vacated
15232-581: The rest of Bullet Club, to advance to the semifinals of the Super Jr. Tag Tournament. During the next two weeks, New Japan held seven smaller shows, with The Young Bucks main eventing every one of them, teaming with Bullet Club stablemate Karl Anderson in six-man tag team matches against the IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada and members of his Chaos stable. The Young Bucks suffered their first loss in
15368-534: The reunited Motor City Machine Guns. After their win, The Young Bucks made a challenge for NJPW's "heavyweight" tag team title, which led to a match on September 22 at Destruction in Hiroshima , where they unsuccessfully challenged reigning IWGP Tag Team Champions The Briscoe Brothers. Three days later at Destruction in Kobe, The Young Bucks and Adam Cole were defeated by David Finlay, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima in
15504-522: The reunited tag team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick all in action. On February 27, 2010 at As the Worm Turns , Kenny Omega lost the PWG World Championship to Davey Richards . Also at the event, The Young Bucks made history by tying with Richards and former partner Super Dragon for most PWG World Tag Team Championship title defenses, with twelve. On April 10, 2010 at Titannica , The Young Bucks defeated The Briscoe Brothers to officially set
15640-475: The second year in a row, eliminated from the tournament in the first round, this time losing to The Future is Now (Jigsaw, Equinox and Helios ). Matt and Nick wrestled the match as heels in Generation Me tights and after the match abandoned Malachi in the ring, when he wanted to shake hands with his opponents. On the third night of the tournament the Bucks were defeated by Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw in
15776-521: The semifinals and finally the Nightmare Violence Connection ( Akira Tozawa and Kevin Steen ) in the final to win their second DDT4 tournament and earn another shot at El Generico and Paul London. The Young Bucks received their shot on April 9, 2011, when they defeated El Generico and Ricochet , who filled in for Paul London who was unable to appear at the event, to regain the PWG World Tag Team Championship. On May 27, during
15912-455: The semifinals of the tournament. However, in the final of the tournament El Generico and Paul London, the team known collectively as ¡Peligro Abejas!, defeated the Young Bucks to not only win the tournament, but also the PWG World Tag Team Championship, ending the Bucks' reign at 616 days. During the final match Nick was knocked unconscious and suffered a concussion, but was able to finish the match. On July 30, at PWG's seventh anniversary show,
16048-495: The semifinals with a win over The Extreme Trio ( Jerry Lynn , Tommy Dreamer and Too Cold Scorpio ). Team ROH opened the third and final day of the tournament by defeating the all-female Team Sendai Girls ( Dash Chisako , Meiko Satomura and Sendai Sachiko ) in the semifinals. In the final of the tournament, Team ROH was defeated by the Spectral Envoy ( Frightmare , Hallowicked and UltraMantis Black ). On November 10, The Young Bucks made their second successful defense of
16184-521: The semifinals. As a result of losing to Alex Shelley and Kushida during the tournament, The Young Bucks and Time Splitters faced off in another IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match on June 21 at Dominion 6.21 , where The Young Bucks' seven-month reign came to an end. The Young Bucks received a rematch for the title on October 13 at King of Pro-Wrestling in a three-way match also involving Forever Hooligans, but were again defeated by Time Splitters. In November, The Young Bucks made it to
16320-444: The show Matt and Nick met Dragon Gate (DG) wrestler Cima and Dragon Gate's American talent agent Satoshi Oji for the first time, both of whom were impressed by the brothers' performance. On January 5, 2008, The Young Bucks faced prominent Dragon Gate team Muscle Outlaw'z ( Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino ) at All Star Weekend 6 – Night 1 in a losing effort. The next night, they lost to The Dynasty (Scott Lost and Joey Ryan). At
16456-426: The team name "Los Gallineros". In October 2004, with the help of his family, Matt opened up his own independent wrestling company called High Risk Wrestling (HRW). Matt was originally the head owner of HRW, but had help from Nick and Malachi, as well as good friend Dustin Cutler – these three eventually took over ownership years later. The company ran shows twice a month and helped Matt and Nick learn their craft. In
16592-520: The time, five-time ROH World Tag Team Champions the Briscoe Brothers. On December 19 at Final Battle 2009 , ROH's first live pay-per-view, the Young Bucks picked up another big win, this time over former ROH World Tag Team Champions Kevin Steen and El Generico. After signing contracts with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , The Young Bucks wrestled their last HDNet tapings in January 2010, defeating The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) on
16728-495: The title after deciding he was not going to be able to defend it due to commitments to Ring of Honor and Japan. Claudio Castagnoli won the vacant title on October 9, 2010, by defeating Chris Hero, Joey Ryan and Brandon Gatson in a four-way match. On January 29, 2011, PWG held another show during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, which included a special "Legends battle royal" and Jake Roberts facing Sinn Bodhi in what
16864-402: The title from Roppongi Vice on June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall . They lost the title to Funky Future (Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi) on August 13. On January 4, 2018, The Young Bucks defeated Roppongi 3K ( Sho and Yoh ) at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the seventh time. Their reign lasted just 24 days before losing
17000-543: The title to the Bravado Brothers on November 16. On December 21, 2009, the Young Bucks reached one of their personal goals as they took part in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 's (TNA) Impact! tapings, wrestling The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) in a tryout dark match, which earned them the praise of TNA management. On December 26, 2009, TNA president Dixie Carter announced on her Twitter account that TNA had signed
17136-494: The title. At the March 15 tapings of Xplosion , the Bucks faced each other in a singles match for the first time in TNA, with Max picking up the win. Max and Jeremy faced each other in a rematch on the March 31 episode of Impact! , where Max was once again victorious. On the April 7 episode of Impact! , Generation Me teamed with Robbie E in a six-man tag team match, where they faced Brian Kendrick, Chris Sabin and Suicide . At
17272-715: The titles back to Roppongi 3K at the New Beginning in Sapporo. On February 24, 2018, The Young Bucks announced that they would move up to New Japan's heavyweight tag team division. At Strong Style Evolved , they lost against the Golden☆Lovers in an acclaimed match. At Sakura Genesis 2018 , they scored their first victory in the Heavyweight tag team division against their Bullet Club teammates Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi . At Wrestling Dontaku 2018 , they won
17408-423: The titles on October 4 in a rematch of their DDT4 semifinal match. On November 21, during the second night of the 2009 Battle of Los Angeles , The Young Bucks retained their title over Kevin Steen and El Generico and afterwards turned heel by aligning themselves with Brian Kendrick and attacking the new PWG World Champion Kenny Omega. On January 30, 2010, at Kurt Russellmania , the first PWG show since
17544-418: The tournament itself. Soon after, The Young Bucks went on their first Dragon Gate tour. Upon their return from Dragon Gate, the Young Bucks defeated the Dynasty on July 6, 2008, at Life During Wartime , PWG's fifth anniversary show, in a three-way match, which also included KAZMA and MIYAWAKI . At the following show, All Star Weekend 7 – Night Two on August 31, 2008, Matt and Nick defeated The Age of
17680-404: The venue was sold and they were not allowed to book dates there past June 1. On May 25, 2018, PWG hosted their last event in Reseda titled "Bask in his Glory." (This was also the farewell event of former PWG world champion Keith Lee ). Their first event of 2019 was Hand of Doom where Jeff Cobb defended the title against the departing Trevor Lee . Their next event was called Two Hundred which saw
17816-511: The weeks leading up to their debut event, featuring a mix of well known independent wrestlers and many local Southern California stars. Due to injuries and booking conflicts, the card ended up being changed several times. Samoa Joe was unable to compete in the promotion's debut show because of an injury that he had suffered in a match with Paul London at a Ring of Honor event a few weeks earlier. He ended up being replaced by Frankie Kazarian . Despite only running six shows in its first year, PWG
17952-605: Was announced as the president of the company. On January 8, 2019, the company held its inaugural press conference on the forecourt of the TIAA Bank Field , where they announced talents that were going to perform as part of the promotion including Joey Janela , Christopher Daniels , Scorpio Sky , Pac , Frankie Kazarian and Chris Jericho . They also announced a working relationship with Chinese professional wrestling promotion Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE), an organization founded by Cima . On March 16, 2019,
18088-417: Was billed as Roberts' retirement match. On July 23, PWG held their eighth anniversary show, during which Kevin Steen defeated Claudio Castagnoli in an impromptu match to win the PWG World Championship for the second time. On October 22, 2011, one of PWG's founders, Super Dragon, made his first appearance since May 2008, saving Kevin Steen from The Young Bucks, who had just cost him the PWG World Championship in
18224-411: Was defeated by the team of Eric Young and Shark Boy . This was their last match in TNA as the following day Matt announced that he and his brother had requested their release from their contracts with the promotion. Matt and Nick later revealed that the request stemmed from monetary issues, while also venting their frustrations with TNA's booking, noting the storyline with Tara, which went nowhere, and
18360-426: Was invited for a tryout after William Regal had seen one of his PWG matches. In December 2015, PWG and ROH announced a working relationship, which would allow ROH contracted wrestlers to continue working for PWG. ROH contracted wrestlers (and former PWG World champions) Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly made their first appearances in PWG since December 2014 at All Star Weekend 11 in December 2015. In February 2018,
18496-497: Was voted "Promotion of the Year" in the 2003 SoCalUncensored.com Year End Awards. Along with putting local wrestlers in many of their storylines, PWG also brought in many out of town talent that weren't booked on other local shows. During its first year, PWG brought in wrestlers such as A.J. Styles, Christopher Daniels , Samoa Joe, CM Punk , Homicide , Chris Hero , Brian Kendrick , and Colt Cabana . In July 2004, PWG moved to
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