Fans didn’t have to wait another 17 months for the next meeting between FTR and The Young Bucks as the two teams would cross paths once again eight months later at the inaugural AEW Dynasty pay-per-view in April 2024. However, both teams had shown us everything that there was to show us at the time, so they needed to shake things up and the solution was a Ladder Match.

Neither team walked into Dynasty as champions as the AEW World Tag Team Championships were vacated following AEW Revolution. Sting and Darby Allin, who defeated The Young Bucks in the main event of that show, relinquished the titles due to Sting retiring from wrestling, and with both teams having two title reigns in the bag already, the winners of the match were also going to become the first-ever three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions. FTR had been chasing the belts since losing them to Ricky Starks and Big Bill shortly after All In London, and hadn’t really changed much in the eight months since they last wrestled the Jackson brothers.

The Young Bucks on the other hand were wildly different, now going by Matthew and Nicholas Jackson, they had fully embraced the fact that they were Executive Vice-Presidents of the company and were willing to abuse that power to the furthest possible degree. They even aired the backstage footage from All In London of CM Punk fighting with Jack Perry just to get in FTR’s heads, which we can all agree was a terrible idea.

What wasn’t a terrible idea was this match. Hats off to all four men willingly putting themselves out there after the now iconic match between Will Ospreay and Bryan Danielson, and they all knew that the only way to wake up this exhausted crowd was to borderline kill each other. We’ve seen every conceivable trope in a Ladder Match by now, to the point where some of them don’t really feel dangerous. This match however was dangerous. Some of the bumps that these guys took in this one looked ugly in the best kind of way. Sloppy and careless, but genuinely impossible to not watch. Cash Wheeler darting around the match like he’d been shot out of a cannon, the Piledriver on the bridged ladder from Dax Harwood on to Matthew Jackson looked horrifying, Matthew also being catapulted off the apron only for his head to his the guardrail as he goes through a table, Nicholas Jackson being one of the best high flyers in the business. It’s the definition of a car crash where even the fans are telling the guys in the ring to be careful.

The return of Jack Perry in the closing moments was to be expected at the time, but it doesn’t take anything away from the match, and The Young Bucks walk away with the win. One of the most fun Ladder Match’s in AEW history.