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The current plan is to have The Young Bucks go against FTR and have FTR beat them at long last.
This is being done over the explicit objections of the Bucks, who have been refusing to work with FTR since beating them despite having a gentleman's agreement that they would do the job back to FTR per the notion of 50/50 booking Cody had established for the Elites early on as a means to make sure people would be willing to work with them in the ring without fear of burial.
Tony Khan is forcing the issue, because the Bucks have been getting quite uppity, plus his original plans for placating FTR was to bring in the Briscos for a high profile feud which FTR would have won in decisive fashion.
With Warner Media blackballing the Briscos, Tony is convinced that the Bucks were responsible for poisoning the well behind his back. The Bucks deny this, but they are on the record internally of not wanting to "waste the Briscos on losers like FTR" and wanted first crack at them.
Right now, the plan is to slow build FTR turning face via Bret Hart. Sometime the next month or so, expect Bret to show up on AEW TV to give more details on the Owen Hart Memorial Tournament, at which point FTR will turn face when the Bucks try and attack Bret. Supposedly, the plan is to have Bret publicly bury the Bucks as being literal whos, which in turn will be used to extract Adam Cole/ReDragon from the Bucks permanently as they won't help the Bucks against FTR after they diss Bret.
The Bucks again are utterly against this, but they are on super thin ice. Tony thinks they are snitches, Omega's basically detached from the day to day stuff at the shows as he heals up, and Cody is 100% gone. The Bucks have no allies as Khan is starting to consolidate power for himself. And the FTR thing is a rather large sore spot, since Tony has started to feel hypocritical that he basically banished Cody from AEW for outrageous creative control demands while allowing the Bucks to repeatedly bury FTR.
