Formerly The Dyad in NXT, James Drake & Zak Gibson have announced they are now taking bookings.
Known as Rip Fowler & Jagger Reid during their NXT run, the pair requested their release from the company in April, but were refused.
At the time, the pair noted that their contracts expired in October.
On Saturday, Drake took to social media to confirm their free agency.
❌ No production crew.
❌ No spooky lighting.
❌ No contact lenses.Me @ZackGibsonGYV are proud 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗪𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀.
We are the
𝗚𝗿𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗹𝗲𝗱. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴. 𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀. pic.twitter.com/D9VeJo4WJw— 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞 (@JamesDrakePro) October 14, 2023
𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗭𝗟𝗘𝗗. 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚. 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦.
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𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥.Booking information 👇
[email protected] pic.twitter.com/RjntJJFfQg— 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞 (@JamesDrakePro) October 14, 2023
In a promo clip, the pair said:
Gibson: No spooky lights, no special effects. I won’t even need a contact lens, okay? No overproduction. We’re done.
Drake: No, no, no. No overproduction. I mean, come on, where does that get you?
Gibson: Nowhere. We’re filming it now.
Drake: No, seriously. Where does that get you?
Gibson: Nowhere.
Drake: You’ve got soulless wrestlers with heartless gimmicks and then you’ve got the death of creativity. We took a long look around and we said to ourselves, “If this is the big life, then we’re not looking to live it.”
We are sick of taking safe option. We are sick of reading the same old boring scripts that go absolutely nowhere. And we are sick with dealing with knob heads that have wormed their way into this business.
Gibson: A very famous British wrestler told us when we arrived in the States that it was time for us to put our heads down and start listening to orders if we wanted to succeed.
He said that he wanted us to have all the fun out of our system because there’s no pirates here.
Well, I am sorry to anyone that had different expectations for us. I am sorry that we can’t be who you wanted us to be. Simply put, we are not politicians. It’s a pirate’s life for us.
I am Liverpool’s number one, Zack Gibson. This man is James Drake. Together, we are Grizzled Young Veterans. That felt good to say again.
We have conquered all of Europe and we’re never gonna stop. The boys are back.
Drake: Yes. And if you see the GYV coming, grit your teeth.
