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Firmly cemented as one of the greatest tag-teams in professional wrestling history, Matt and Nick Jackson, the brothers now known by many as The Young Bucks, have been around for nearly 20 years. Debuting in 2004, the duo would rise up the wrestling scene through their time in ROH, PWG, NJPW, and TNA, before eventually helping to usher in a new era of wrestling as part of All Elite Wrestling in 2019. With their stamp on wrestling history, The Young Bucks will forever be known to wrestling fans as one of the best and most important teams to ever lace up a pair of boots. One portion of their career that does remain a bit of a blemish is their time in TNA Impact Wrestling as the team known as Generation Me. Despite being one of the fastest-rising teams in wrestling during their time with the company, all things did not go well for Matt and Nick during their time within Impact Wrestling.
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Generation Me Had A Strong Start In Impact Wrestling
Signing with TNA Impact Wrestling in 2009, thanks to Bob Ryder, the tag-team that fans now know as the Young Bucks would arrive in the company as Generation Me, sporting the names Max and Jeremy Buck, a nod to their name on the independent scene. Upon their arrival in the tag-team scene, Generation Me would become standouts from the jump thanks to their matches against legendary Impact Wrestling tag-team, The Motor City Machine Guns. While the team would deliver great matches in the tag team scene in Impact, they would also be featured as X Division stars, taking part in multiple Ultimate X matches during their time in TNA.
The highlight of their TNA careers remains their legendary feud with the Machine Guns, as the chemistry between Max and Jeremy, and Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley was unmatched at the time in Impact's tag-team scene. On top of this, fans would also be treated to seeing some of the longtime rivalry between Generation Me/The Young Bucks and Bad Influence/The Addiction/SCU, otherwise known as Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels.
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Their Time As Generation Me Almost Caused The Young Bucks To Quit Wrestling
Despite being seemingly being poised to be a breakout team during their run in TNA Impact Wrestling, the time would never come for Max and Jeremy, as the brothers would fail to ever capture Championship gold while wrestling under the TNA Banner. Despite this, they would be featured prominently in the tag team division, as well as the X Division, with there even being a teased feud between the brothers that ultimately went nowhere.
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In the end, Generation Me's time in Impact Wrestling was cut short, as they would request their release in 2011, with it being granted. Speaking to Rolling Stone years later, The Bucks would reveal that they left due to monetary issues with the company, as well as creative frustration after failing to ever put anything of length together while also having multiple storylines scrapped, including their feud against one another and a storyline with Tara. Matt Jackson would go as far to say that by the time they left the company, he was at a point where he was debating on quitting wrestling entirely.
Generation Me Made A Short Return To Impact Wrestling Years Later
If one thing remains certain for wrestling fans, it is to learn that never truly is never. Despite leaving the company in 2011 under bad circumstances, Generation Me would make their return to TNA Impact Wrestling just a few short years later. At the TNA Tag Team One Night Only event, Max and Jeremy would make their return to the brand for a tag-team tournament that would see them defeated by Team 3D in the second round. This would not be it for the brothers in Impact however, as they would stick around for a special ladder match against longtime rivals, Bad Influence, at Hardcore Justice.
Following those two marquee matches, Generation Me would be gone from Impact once more, returning to the independent scene where they would thrive as a part of tag team divisions in PWG, Ring of Honor, and most notably, New Japan Pro Wrestling, where they would join The Bullet Club as Matt and Nick Jackson, the Young Bucks, thus setting the formation of The Elite and subsequently, AEW, in motion.
