Tag crew duo the Younger Bucks channeled Freddie Mercury for his or her bout at AEW’s latest All In occasion at Wembley Stadium in London.
The pair – made up of real-life brothers Matthew and Nicholas Massie – had been one of many night time’s principal sights, battling FTR for the World Tag Staff Championship. Greater than 81,000 followers attended All In, setting a brand new report for an expert wrestling occasion.
The Younger Bucks opted to enter the ring sporting shiny yellow jackets with white pants, a glance made well-known by Mercury throughout Queen’s 1986 Wembley efficiency.
“It was a really well-known outfit that he wore,” the wrestlers defined in behind-the-scenes footage shot earlier than the bout. The costume designer, they famous, “killed it.”
Watch the Younger Weapons Enter in Freddie Mercury Apparel
What Made Freddie Mercury’s Outfit Well-known?
Queen’s 1986 efficiency at Wembley Stadium is considered one of the legendary concert events in rock historical past. In some ways, it was an encore to their momentous Reside Support efficiency, which occurred at Wembley a yr earlier than. Queen performed two dates – July 11 and 12, 1986 – but it surely’s the latter present that lives on in historical past. The live performance was broadcast on tv and simulcast on radio, giving followers all around the world the possibility to really feel just like the 75,000 folks within the viewers that night time. Queen performed 28 songs throughout their efficiency, together with such classics as “Underneath Stress,” “One other One Bites the Mud,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Are the Champions.” It will later be launched because the dwell album Reside at Wembley ’86 and the live performance movie Queen at Wembley.
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Donning his yellow jacket and racing-striped white pants, Mercury was in distinctive kind on the Wembley live performance. The efficiency has typically been referenced by those that argue the Queen singer was the best frontman in rock historical past. It’s additionally a bittersweet reminder of Mercury’s unimaginable expertise; he succumbed to AIDS and died 5 years later.
Watch Queen Carry out ‘Underneath Stress’ at Wembley in 1986
Different AEW Basic Rock Moments
The Younger Bucks weren’t the one wrestlers who flashed some traditional rock type through the All In occasion. Saraya got here out for her AEW World Ladies’s Championship bout to the sounds of Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” whereas wrestling legend Sting entered utilizing Metallica’s “Search & Destroy.” The latter selection was notable as Sting beforehand employed the Kill ‘Em All traditional throughout his stint in WCW from 1999 to 2001.
Orange Cassidy additionally continued his use of Jefferson Starship’s “Jane” as his go-to theme track, as soon as once more coming into with the 1979 hit throughout his involvement within the large Stadium Stampede bout.
Elsewhere, wrestler Chris Jericho – who has additionally discovered success along with his rock band Fozzy – delivered a rendition of his theme track, “Judas.” The efficiency included an “ay-oh” name and repeat, much like the one Mercury made well-known throughout Reside Support.
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A thread runs by all of it: a hard-won sense of individuality. Queen had been a band like no different.
