The Grizzled Younger Veterans have arrived in AEW. The previous WWE NXT UK Tag Workforce Champions made their debut in Wembley Stadium at All In, and have already referred to as out former AEW World Tag Workforce Champions FTR in a backstage interview, hoping to distinguish themselves from their fellow title collectors.
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“For 18 years, we now have performed this job,” Gibson stated, livid at comparisons to FTR which have adopted them in recent times. “Have you learnt what it is like to your complete life’s work to culminate as compared? They’re the very cause why I hate this job that I as soon as cherished.” His tag companion James Drake made it clear that Grizzled Younger Veterans plan on displaying FTR, and the AEW followers, who the higher staff is, and can hopefully flip the tables on Dax Harwood and Money Wheeler.
“FTR, it is so simple as this,” Drake started. “Once we’re performed with you, they’re gonna say ‘Wow, similar to an American Grizzled Younger Veterans.”
EXCLUSIVE: #GrizzledYoungVeterans‘ @ZackGibsonGYV & @JamesDrakePro are bored with being in comparison with #FTR. pic.twitter.com/9JM7CoAX07
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) September 6, 2024
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Drake and Gibson debuted following the three-way tag staff title match at All In, which noticed The Younger Bucks victorious over FTR and The Acclaimed. Drake and Gibson attacked The Bucks after the AEW Govt Vice Presidents retained their tag staff titles. The pair had beforehand been stalwarts of WWE’s NXT UK model till it shuttered, then they moved on to “WWE NXT” correct, the place they had been rebranded The Dyad as a part of Joe Gacy’s former steady The Schism. The pair grew to become free brokers in October of final yr, quickly returning to the UK unbiased scene.
