In a late April episode of AEW Collision, the tag team known as the Grizzled Young Veterans or Grizzled Young Vets, made their AEW debut. Comprised of James Drake and Zack Gibson, they competed against The Acclaimed, though they didn’t emerge victorious.
Whispers of discussions between the two groups had been circulating earlier in the month.
In a conversation with Metro’s Alistair McGeorge, Zack Gibson touched on the prospect of potentially returning to the promotion.
Gibson indicated, “We never burned any bridges, we can always reopen those talks if we wanted to. Similarly, if we’re enjoying ourselves more elsewhere, then we may never need to go back. We’re not set on any one particular path. We just wanted to get our stock moving in the right direction again. Since leaving WWE, we made the right decision.”