Unsurprisingly, FTR and the Young Bucks had a match of the year candidate on last week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, with Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler retaining their ROH Tag Team Championship.
The match was undoubtedly a classic, but it turns out it almost didn’t happen last week, as it was originally planned to be later in April.
According to Nick Jackson, who had an interview with Sports Illustrated with brother Matt Jackson, they had to convince Tony Khan to let them have the match earlier, to capitalise on FTR’s momentum following their match with the Briscoes at Supercard of Honor.
He said:
“It wasn’t supposed to happen until later this month. We wanted to ride the momentum of the FTR vs. The Briscoes match because we knew they’d have a classic, and we convinced Tony to let us have it in Boston.”
Nick mentioned that the only issue with their first match was that it took place during the pandemic.
“The one thing that put a small damper on the first meeting was having it during the pandemic. We always knew we wanted to do a rematch, it was just a matter of when and how—and we knew it had to be a packed arena. I knew the match was going to be great when FTR’s music hit and they were the most over guys in the building that night. Everything clicked from there.”
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