It seems like every year I contemplate giving The Young Bucks the Wrestlers of the Year award. They were in 2020's match of the year. In 2021 they were in the 2nd best match of the year, a cage match against The Lucha Brothers. The reason The Young Bucks are always in the conversation for wrestlers of the year is simply because they're entertaining. When you watch a Young Bucks match you know that you're going to be entertained. You're going to have a great time. They create a party type atmosphere. And this year they turned heel while they held the tag titles all year until September. Their heel personas were so stupid and so amusing that you had to shake your head at the audacity of their creativity. Wearing bright pink matching outfits, dying their beards, wearing nose ring jewelry. They had one match dressed up like basketball players with a hoop at ringside, and another match before Halloween dressed up as ghostbusters. While they had good matches against Moxley & Kingston and The Lucha Brothers in the Spring and early Summer, their entertainment value began to peak in July and August when AEW started to tour across the country again and the Bucks had a series of unforgettable matches in front of raucous, frothing-at-the-mouth crowds. They had a match against Penta & Kingston that included a Canadian Destroyer through a ringside table and a Superkick to a mouthful of thumbtacks. They defeated Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus in one of the year's most entertaining matches that was wild, crazy, frenetic, fast-paced, and hilarious (Brandon Cutler waving a flare to distract Luchasaurus). The wild summer culminated in the Bucks' four star masterpiece cage match against The Lucha Brothers, a match that included thumbtack sneakers. The Young Bucks, as usual, had a killer year filled with a billion highlights and pretty much good to great matches every time out. That's very rare, as if you didn't know.
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