{"id":152305,"date":"2023-01-11T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=152305"},"modified":"2023-01-11T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:00:12","slug":"the-young-bucks-reveal-they-were-asked-to-appear-at-wrestle-kingdom-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/11\/the-young-bucks-reveal-they-were-asked-to-appear-at-wrestle-kingdom-17\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Bucks reveal they were asked to appear at Wrestle Kingdom 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-276439517\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Matt and Nick Jackson, The Young Bucks, were asked to appear at Wrestle Kingdom 17, the biggest event of the year for New Japan Pro Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wrestling\/2023\/01\/11\/aew-dynamite-young-bucks-kenny-omega-death-triangle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, Matt and Nick revealed the news, what role they were asked to play, and why they ultimately did not appear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were actually asked to wrestle and be in Kenny\u2019s corner,\u201d says Nick in regards to an appearance at Wrestle Kingdom 17. \u201cBut Matt and I had vacation plans that week. Maybe next year. Who knows?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got a fantastic offer,\u201d adds Matt. \u201cPersonally, the timing and the situation didn\u2019t fit for us. I\u2019m sure one day you\u2019ll see us back in a NJPW ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/04\/1-4-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-17-report-radicans-results-and-analysis-of-entire-card-including-ospreay-vs-omega-white-vs-okada\/\">Wrestle Kingdom<\/a>, Kenny Omega wrestled Will Ospreay for the IWGP United States Championship. Omega defeated Ospreay to become champion. Wednesday on AEW Dynamite, The Young Bucks &amp; Omega will team to take on Death Triangle in match seven of their best of seven series for the AEW World Trios Championships.<\/p>\n<h3>Full Wrestle Kingdom 17 Results<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Catch 22 def. LiYoh \u2013 IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship<\/li>\n<li>KAIRI def. Tam Nakano \u2013 IWGP Women\u2019s Championship<\/li>\n<li>Bishimon def. FTR \u2013 IWGP World Tag Team Championship<\/li>\n<li>Zach Sabre Jr. def. Ren Narita \u2013 NJPW World TV Championship<\/li>\n<li>Tama Tonga def. Karl Anderson \u2013 NEVER Openweight Championship<\/li>\n<li>Shota Umino, Tanahashi and Kenji Muto def. Los Ingobernobles de Japon<\/li>\n<li>Hiromu Takahashi def. Taiji Ishimori, El Desperado, and Master Wato \u2013 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship<\/li>\n<li>Kenny Omega def. Will Ospreay \u2013 IWGP United States Championship<\/li>\n<li>Kazuchika Okada def. 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In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Matt and Nick <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/11\/the-young-bucks-reveal-they-were-asked-to-appear-at-wrestle-kingdom-17\/\" title=\"The Young Bucks reveal they were asked to appear at Wrestle Kingdom 17\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":135274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,6],"tags":[6121,6463,6120,306,6805,303],"class_list":["post-152305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-kenny-omega","tag-wrestle-kingdom-17","tag-young-bucks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/03\/IMG_2433.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152306,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152305\/revisions\/152306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}