Matt Jackson Claims The Young Bucks Have No Plans for a Permanent Split

Matt and Nick Jackson have been side-by-side for nearly twenty years, and according to them, that’s never going to change.

While speaking on The Battleground Podcast, Matt Jackson made it clear that the Young Bucks are not interested in following the usual wrestling trope of tag team breakups and solo feuds. In fact, they want to rewrite the rulebook completely.

Matt praised AEW for allowing long-term storytelling and resisting the urge to tear teams apart too soon. He pointed out how most companies lean on the same tired formula: throw two unlikely partners together, then have them turn on each other after a few weeks. AEW, he says, is better than that.

“I think AEW is good about taking the fans on a journey with them and, like you said, not splitting teams up after three or four weeks just to start a feud. I think a lot of wrestling companies fall into those traps or tropes where they say, ‘This is what you do — they’re the odd pairing, then they split up, and then they have a blood feud.’ But you don’t always have to do that.”

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Matt got even more personal, saying that if they were anywhere else, the Bucks would’ve already broken up—multiple times. He recalled their TNA run as proof.

“If we were anywhere else, my brother and I probably would have already gone through three different breakups. We even broke up in TNA within a year. I think a lot of promoters, writers, and bookers fall into that pattern where one goes heel and the other goes babyface. And I think for me and Nick, that’s one thing in our career we’ve always said — you know what? Let’s be the first tag team that never really permanently splits up. Let’s just stick together.”

It’s a rare stance in a business built on betrayal angles, but for the Young Bucks, staying together is the story. Through reinvention, drama, and years of evolution, they’ve proven that the bond between brothers can be a stronger hook than any breakup.

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