According to Nick Jackson of the Young Bucks, ROH & NJPW could have teamed up to offer the brothers’ contracts which would have prevented AEW from starting. Nick made his comments recently during an interview with the Bleacher Report.

“You know what’s sad? New Japan and ROH could have easily come together and offered us the contracts they wanted, but they just didn’t do it,” Nick Jackson said. “New Japan never saw the value in Matt and I. They never paid us good. We would have had to work with New Japan for another two decades to even get close to retiring, and the style they demand is backbreaking.”

Nick would continue to talk about how ROH paid them better than NJPW but still not to where they’d be able to retire in less than a decade. He also said that if ROH & NJPW teamed up to offer the Bucks a contract, they likely would have accepted.

“Ring of Honor paid us a lot better than New Japan. We could have probably retired there, but we would have to work probably another decade with them. We pitched it to both of them: ‘Why don’t you guys get us a dual contract?’ And they just didn’t get it done.”

“We would have easily stayed, and there would have never been an All Elite Wrestling if they would have met what we wanted, but it didn’t get done,” he continued.