When news broke that the Hardy Brothers had been removed from the AEW Tag Team Championship ladder match due to Jeff's DUI arrest-influenced suspension, it sent the entire match into flux, at least in the minds of fans who were deeply looking forward to seeing what could have ushered in the final major title run of one of the most storied tag teams in wrestling history.

Would Tony Khan book another team into the match, say the Lucha Brothers, to keep the constraints the same? Or would the match be scrapped entirely, with a new main event booked and the situation addressed at a later date?

Well, as it turns out, it was none of the above; Khan went with the match as booked, shrinking it down from a three-way tag to a traditional two-on-two, and, largely to the credit of the performers in the ring, it worked: The Young Bucks led one of the best ladder matches you'll ever see on free TV, and they ended the ordeal with championship gold around their waists once more.

Sure, Matt lost one of his “Nike SB Dunk High Cali” shoes while climbing the ladder, but that's a small price to pay on the way to becoming the first two-time Tag Team Champions in AEW history.

The Young Bucks are invested in making the AEW Tag Team division special.

As two of the founding EVPs of AEW, The Young Bucks, more so than almost every other tag team in the promotion, get the importance of a big match feel. Mind you, they never turn in a stinker or come to the ring unprepared, but when the Bucks are placed in a big-time bout, be that a television main event, a stipulation match, or contest, usually early in the card, on a Pay-Per-View event, they ratchet things up in a way best described as larger than life.

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At Double or Nothing, the Bucks wore Elivs gear, a throwback to their original outfits from the first PPV telecast live from Sin City. They've made it a point to switch out their gear fairly often, and, as true heel millionaires should, have flaunted their money by wrestling in expensive sneakers of all colorways, brands – as long as the parent company is NIKE – and price tags, including a notorious bout where they took the ring in $12,000 Dior Jordan 1s and another where Matt attached thumbtacks to the bottom of a very hyped up pair of Travis Scott Jordan 1s.

Foolish? Sure. A waste of money? Most definitely, especially when the shoes were “lost” by the airlines, but hey, sometimes you have to invest in your craft, and no one can accuse The Young Bucks of coasting on their resume instead of remaining innovative deep into their 30s.

Hey, when you've won 21 different championships over a 17-year-career, a team has to find ways to keep things interesting, especially when tasked with being the top heel team in a division that also features FTR.

Young Bucks-FTR 3? Yeah, that is going to be good.

While we may never know if this was Tony Khan's plan all along, or if it was the Hardy Brothers, not the Young Bucks, who were supposed to dethrone the Jurassic Express, the decision to make the change on Dynamite was the right call, especially since it opens up some very interesting new bout opportunities at Forbidden Door; bouts made all the more intriguing with championship gold on the line.