The Young Bucks understand that they only have a certain amount of years left in their own careers before they will have no choice but to call it a day. However, Nick feels like some of those thoughts have only become more prominent recently because it feels like everyone they know is deciding to retire. “It’s been really weird, especially in the last few years it feels like everyone is retiring, it’s like become a trend and it’s sad because, as you said, it’s like an end of an era for a lot of these guys, especially for us. Seeing The Dudleys end their tag career is pretty shocking, but I’m glad they got to do it, and on their own terms because a lot of guys don’t get to do that.”

What really hammers home the idea of retiring to The Young Bucks is that it’s not just stars who they watched growing up who are retiring, it’s people they’ve become close friends with and have worked with for many years, making the whole situation even more weird for Nick especially. “Seeing our friend Christopher Daniels retire this year actually…Sting, Bryan Danielson, John Cena’s ending his career soon. So it’s very weird, it’s like a whole generation is wrapping up and we’re not far behind it which kind of scares me.”

Matt rounded off by saying that seeing people he’s known his entire career retire is a reminder of his own mortality, and while it’s emotional, it’s something that he is happy to see at the end of the day, echoing Nick’s point about how seeing his friends and colleagues retire on their own terms is a lot better than seeing them forced into retirement.

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