The Young Bucks on NXT Changing the Indy Scene

Aaron Oster of RollingStone.com recently interviewed Matt and Nick Jackson of The Young Bucks in a piece for the site.

The reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions discussed NXT changing the independent scene, being a part of New Japan’s Bullet Club and possibly working for World Wrestling Entertainment some day:

Do you think that NXT has changed the indie scene at all, especially with them seemingly poaching so many of the top talents?

Nick: I don’t think it’s changed much of the indie scene. That’s a hard question to answer. NXT is essentially WWE’s independent company. I think they’re smart, because the indies are red-hot right now. We’ve been wrestling 11 or 12 years now, and now every show we go to there’s almost 1,000 people there. That wasn’t happening five years ago. WWE obviously sees where the money is.

Matt: I think it’s more that indie wrestling is changing NXT. They’re seeing what works out here, and what’s hot out here and they’re wanting some of that. They’re really gearing their product towards these types of fans. I think they saw that people were making money on the indies, and who doesn’t want more money? Of course Vince does. He’s going to want to get a piece of that.

What do you think is the secret to the Bullet Club’s popularity?

Matt: It’s the same attitude that we have. The not-caring, doing-whatever-you-want attitude. They don’t give us a limit. Maybe a couple times they’ve told us to bring it down a little bit, but for the most part, they’ve said to do what we want. We go out there, we party, we have fun and I think everyone is having fun with us.

Nick: It’s like the nWo. Who didn’t like the nWo? Everyone did. The childhood that I grew up with was the nWo, and I think the majority of hard-core wrestling fans at this point were from my generation. They grew up watching the nWo, and now the Bullet Club is like the nWo, so they like them. And all the guys – Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, all the guys – gave us their blessing to do exactly what they did: throw up the “Too Sweet” sign.

Speaking of WWE, we’ve been dancing around it a bit. You say at some point you’ll settle down, and sign with a single company. Would WWE be that company?

Matt: I mean, who’s to say? Right now, no. For one thing, I have a young family. I just couldn’t uproot my family for less money than I make right now. If we had an offer to go straight to TV or something, well that’s just a whole different thing. Of course, we’d love to entertain that idea. That’s the place to be. It would be fun to do it. Right now though? I don’t know. Of course, in five years, every person we know is going to be running the place. So they may just say, “Hey Bucks, you interested in coming on TV on Monday?” Who knows? Never say never.

Nick: I just couldn’t move my family to Florida at this point. If something changes, then maybe you’ll see us there. I own a home in California. Right now, mentally, I need to stay where I’m at. My wife told me three years ago that we’re never moving to Florida. I was like, “OK, well that rules out WWE then.” But in five years? Who knows, maybe we’ll need it.

To check out the interview in its entirety, click here.

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