Karl Anderson Reveals Young Bucks’ AEW Deals Run Through 2027

Karl Anderson dropped a notable detail about The Young Bucks’ future on a recent edition of his podcast Talk N’ Shop, revealing that Matt and Nick Jackson’s current AEW contracts are set to run out in 2027. Anderson’s comment has reignited speculation about how much longer the founding AEW Executive Vice Presidents plan to keep wrestling, and it has fans already looking ahead to what a farewell run — or an outright retirement — might look like for the tag team that helped build the promotion from the ground up.

Nothing has been announced regarding retirement plans, and Anderson’s remark was simply about contract length, not a confirmed timeline for hanging up the boots. But given how openly The Bucks have talked over the years about eventually stepping away from full-time competition, a 2027 expiration date is enough to get the rumor mill spinning about potential ‘final opponents’ if that door does close.

The short list of dream scenarios writes itself. FTR remains the most obvious answer — Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have been The Young Bucks’ defining rivals since arriving in AEW in 2020, and the two teams have spent six years trading the AEW World Tag Team Championship and stealing shows together. There’s also Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, who beat The Bucks for the tag titles at All In London earlier this year in a match billed as a clash of generations, with a three-way ladder match against FTR now on deck for All Out. The Motor City Machine Guns, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley, carry their own layer of history — the duo helped put a young Matt and Nick Jackson on the map back in their TNA days before Sabin and Shelley signed with AEW this past July. Kofi Kingston and Austin Creed, wrestling as The New Level, have long been floated as a dream match for The Bucks, a pairing fans have wanted for years that’s now actually possible with both teams under the same roof. And then there’s the nostalgia play: Kenny Omega and Hangman Adam Page, the other half of the original Elite, whose 2020 Revolution classic against The Bucks still stands as one of the most acclaimed matches in company history.

Why does any of this matter now? Because The Young Bucks aren’t just tag team wrestlers — they’re part of AEW’s ownership group and among the faces most associated with the promotion’s entire identity. Whenever their in-ring careers do wind down, it’s going to be treated as a landmark moment for the company, not just a retirement match. A 2027 deadline gives AEW roughly a year and a half to build toward whatever that moment ends up being, whether it’s a blowoff with FTR, a callback to the Elite’s formative years, or something else entirely.

For now, this is a contract date, not a farewell tour. But it’s the kind of detail that tends to color everything The Bucks do from here forward, and it’s worth watching how AEW books them heading into 2027.