The Young Bucks Discuss How Much Money WWE Offered Them Prior To AEW Starting

The AEW tag team champion Young Bucks recently appeared on the Talk ‘N’ Shop podcast to discuss a variety of topics, including how much money WWE offered the brothers Jackson back in 2018 prior to AEW launching. Highlights are below.

Says that they were offered $500,000 by WWE as a starting point to sign:

I knew [Good Brothers] money. Everyone else was getting [$150,000] to start. He’s already offering us $500,000 each guaranteed. I’m going, ‘what!’ Right then, we knew our street value. That was the first offer. Basically, he said, ‘by the end of your trip, I would love an answer.’ The whole trip, I’m [stressed]. I kept dragging it out.

Whether ROH could have made them the same type of financial offer:

They couldn’t afford it. We told them, ‘we know we can make a million and that’s our goal, to make seven digits this year.’ They knew they couldn’t come close to that.

(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)