The title of Episode 100 of the popular “Being The Elite” YouTube series is “Finale,” and it certainly does have a feeling of finality about it.

At the conclusion of the episode, which dropped last week, a pensive Cody sits all alone in his dressing room as melancholic piano music plays in the background. The former Ring of Honor World Champion has alienated everyone around him because of his obsession with replacing New Japan Pro-Wrestling star Kenny Omega as the leader of Bullet Club. Even Cody’s loyal mascot, Burnard The Business Bear, wants nothing to do with him.

Earlier on the episode, “The Villain” Marty Scurll announced that he was leaving “Being The Elite” to pursue his dream of becoming a pop star; “Hangman” Adam Page bludgeoned his nemesis, controversial independent wrestling star Joey Ryan; and Omega told tag team extraordinaire The Young Bucks (brothers Matt and Nick Jackson) that the three of them are done as unit and they are no longer his friends.

So is the poignant scene with Cody truly the denouement of the groundbreaking weekly series that weaves together original content with ROH and NJPW storylines? Will that scene be remembered as the pro wrestling equivalent of the group hug in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s” series finale or B.J. spelling out “Goodbye” on stones as Hawkeye flew off in a chopper on the “M*A*S*H” series finale?

The Young Bucks — who created “Being The Elite” along with Omega nearly two years ago — told Sporting News in an exclusive interview that they haven’t decided yet if the series will return.

“I think it’s poetic if we did end it at 100 episodes,” Nick Jackson said in the dressing room during ROH’s show in Pittsburgh last weekend, “but everyone else says we shouldn’t.”

“We’re like, man, 100 episodes, we can end it when it’s the hottest," Matt Jackson told SN. "It almost feels like we should end it.”

On the other hand, he added, “It’s kind of undecided, but I feel like we’d be crazy not to bring it back at some point. It’s become such a popular tool for us now.”

That much is certain. “Being The Elite,” which has 205,000 subscribers, has helped catapult The Young Bucks and fellow Bullet Club members Omega, Cody, Scurll and Page into the realm of pop culture. Case in point: Bullet Club T-shirts are consistently among the top sellers at Hot Topic stores.

In fact, The Young Bucks say they have become as known for “Being The Elite” as they have for their innovative, high-risk wrestling style.

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“We had a guy at the airport on our way here stop me, and he puts his hand out and says, ‘I love your YouTube videos,’” Matt Jackson said. “He didn’t mention anything about pro wrestling.”

“Being The Elite,” which is intentionally campy but also has some dramatic moments as well as elements of a documentary, has generated such buzz that The Young Bucks have had offers from entertainment companies to buy it, but they never seriously considered bringing in outside parties.

“It defeats the whole purpose of the DIY thing,” Matt Jackson said. “We want everyone to know that this is our baby. That’s why people like it I think.

“It’s also control of your own destiny of your own career. You don’t know how you’re going to be booked in Ring of Honor or New Japan. We have influence, but we don’t have final say. With this show, we’re the writers, the actors and the editors.”

The Young Bucks said Omega, Cody, Scurll and Page have all contributed ideas to the show. “It’s almost like a writers’ room,” Matt Jackson said. “We’re constantly spit-balling all the time.”

The episodes were shot and edited on an iPhone and typically took four days to complete. “Thursday night it’s usually just B-roll of us at the airport,” Matt Jackson said. “We really have nothing until Friday afternoon when we’re at a show.”

Some segments were shot as much as four months in advance, said Nick Jackson, who would edit the episodes during the flight back to California Sunday morning or when he got home, and then upload them Sunday night or Monday morning.

“Being The Elite” initially began as a vlog documenting the travels of The Young Bucks and Omega, who had dubbed themselves The Elite, a sub-group of Bullet Club.

“We did that for like six months,” Nick Jackson said. “Then Matt had the idea of adding stories to the mix. … People started to love it and it grew a lot faster. I think we found our calling.

“It started with me getting sick in real life. We knew Adam [Cole] was leaving the Bullet Club, so Matt said, ‘Why don’t we say Adam poisoned you?’ I said, ‘That’s a brilliant idea. Let’s try it.’ The fans loved it. From there we just went nuts.”

After Cody, Scurll and Page joined Bullet Club, they became regulars on “Being The Elite.” The show also had a cast of recurring characters, including members of The Young Bucks’ family, Cody’s wife Brandi Rhodes, Ryan and ROH star Flip Gordon.

The much-anticipated match between Cody and Omega, which took place before nearly 6,000 fans — the largest crowd in ROH history — at Supercard of Honor on April 7 in New Orleans, was the culmination of a storyline that was envisioned by The Young Bucks and was a year in the making.

“Originally it was going to be Kenny versus Adam Cole, but Cole left,” Nick Jackson said. “As soon as Cody joined Bullet Club we knew he was the guy for it.”

The Bullet Club civil war between Cody and Omega played out on “Being The Elite” as well as on ROH and NJPW shows. The Young Bucks collaborated with ROH booker Hunter Johnston and NJPW booker Gedo on the angle but came up with the majority of it on their own.

“Do you know how difficult it is to sit in a room with Gedo, who only speaks Japanese, and I have to tell him an entire, multi-layered, HBO drama-type, crazy story in broken English?” Matt Jackson said with a laugh.

With the storyline affecting two companies, naturally some compromises had to be made.

“We haven’t gotten everything we wanted,” Nick Jackson said. “If it was my choice we wouldn't be wrestling other Bullet Club guys, because right now the issue is strictly Kenny versus Cody.”

“We’ve worked around it," Matt said. "We don’t necessarily agree with every idea but it’s a compromise. We all work together. It really is collaborative.”

It’s rare in pro wrestling to have the creative freedom The Young Bucks do, and they’re fully aware they’d have to relinquish that freedom if they were to ever make the jump to WWE (their contracts are up in eight months).

“As artists, it’s so important for Nick and I to be creative and express ourselves,” Matt Jackson said. “We love wrestling and creating, and with ‘Being The Elite’ it’s like we were making a new movie every week. … I almost enjoy that more than wrestling.”

Added Nick Jackson: “A lot of our friends [in WWE] say we might find it troubling that our creativity would be pretty much gone and we wouldn’t like it, but we’d like the money. Right now we have both of those, and that’s always nice because we’re our own boss.”

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When Matt Jackson thought about it further, he said: “If we did go there, it would have to be creatively appealing for me, which would mean it would have to be an incredible angle. We say with The Elite that we changed wrestling, we changed the world. We want to make a difference.

"If we don’t ever go there I feel like we’re going to be remembered more than if we went there and became a midcard act. Our legacy is stronger now I think than it would be if we went there and had a couple runs as the tag champs.”

In the meantime, the burning question on the minds of “Being The Elite” fans is whether the show will be brought back.

“If we don’t come back, Matt and I will still create things for YouTube,” Nick Jackson said. “I don’t know what it would be, but we’d still be creative in that outlet. At this point, we need that.”

Young Bucks feeling confident about All In drawing 10,000 fans

With 4 1/2 months to go before the “All In” independent wrestling show at Sears Centre in Chicago on Sept. 1, The Young Bucks — who are financing the show along with fellow Ring of Honor star Cody — are feeling good about reaching their goal of attracting 10,000 fans to the event.

“I feel like there’s been so much buzz and so much chatter that 10,000 isn’t out of the question now,” Matt Jackson said. “When we first started talking about it, I was like, ‘10,000, oh man, that’s a lot,’ but once we started putting these [talent announcements] out and there was all this buzz and all the followers of the All In [Twitter] account, I’m like, ‘Wow, I think this is actually going to happen.”

Nick Jackson, who said he’s talked to fans from as far away as Japan and Australia the past few months who say they’ll be attending the show, took it a step further.

“We feel like with what we have in mind, if we don’t do 10,000 it’ll be a failure,” he said.

It was announced yesterday on social media that there will be an “All In” press conference on May 13 at the Pro Wrestling Tees store in Chicago. It will be livestreamed on Facebook and Twitch.

For those unfamiliar with All In, the idea for the event began last May when The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer answered a question on Twitter about whether ROH could sell out an arena with 10,000-plus fans. “Not any time soon,” Meltzer said. In response, Cody tweeted: “I'll take that bet, Dave.”

To put into context how difficult it is for any U.S.-based pro wrestling promotion other than WWE to fill a 10,000-plus-seat arena, Meltzer said it hasn't been done since WCW did it “probably in 1999 or 2000.” ROH, which has been in existence since 2002, set a company record by drawing nearly 6,000 fans to Supercard of Honor in New Orleans on April 7.

While All In technically isn’t an ROH event, a number of ROH wrestlers will be working on the show. In addition to Cody and The Young Bucks, ROH stars announced for All In are: Marty Scurll, Adam Page, Brandi Rhodes (Cody’s wife) and Deonna Purrazzo. New Japan Pro-Wrestling stars Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada, who are regarded as two of the best wrestlers in the world, also are booked. Actor and sometimes wrestler Stephen Amell ("Arrow") will be there, as well.

“We’ve still got names up our sleeve that we haven’t even announced yet,” Nick Jackson said.

Two names that have been speculated about are Daniel Bryan and CM Punk, but with Bryan returning to action in WWE recently after finally being medically cleared, it’s unlikely that he will participate.

“He was definitely an option we wanted,” Matt Jackson said of Bryan.

Punk, whose second UFC fight is scheduled for June 9, teased wrestling fans last month when he tweeted that he was “all in,” but then revealed that he was making a reference to his beloved Chicago Cubs.

“I will say this: I text message Punk on a weekly basis. We’re good friends,” Matt Jackson said. “We talk wrestling. He still loves wrestling, of course he does. We’re pro wrestlers. That’s what we do. Even when you quit or retire or whatever, it’s still in your blood.”

In regard to Bryan and Punk, Nick Jackson said: “Hell yeah I would like those guys. Those names would be icing on the cake. … But I don’t think we need them to get to 10,000. With the card we have in mind, I think that should do it.”

In conjunction with the show, which will be held on Labor Day weekend, there will be a four-day convention at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg featuring live podcasts and “the biggest names in wrestling.”

Nick Jackson said other wrestling promotions have announced that they will be holding shows in the area that weekend, piggybacking on All In the same way a number of wrestling companies do every year with WrestleMania.

“I feel like more people are coming for the experience,” Matt Jackson said. “I don’t think it’s like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna go just because that guy’s there.’ They want to go because it’s three ambitious entrepreneur wrestlers saying, ‘Hey, we’re gonna do this and we’re gonna do it ourselves.’"