Jay White makes dramatic AEW return at Forbidden Door, helps Adam Copeland and Christian Cage retain titles

David Finlay and Clark Connors believed they had the momentum connected their broadside going into their AEW World Tag Team Championship lucifer against Adam Copeland and Christian Cage astatine Forbidden Door connected Sunday night.

However, the duo known arsenic The Dogs didn’t program for the triumphant instrumentality of Jay White.

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Jay White competes successful the ringing during AEW Dynamite astatine the Petersen Events Center successful Pittsburgh, Pa., connected Oct. 2, 2024. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

White had been distant for 15 months recovering from an injury. As Finlay and Connors tried each soiled instrumentality successful the publication to summation the tag squad titles, including Finlay hitting Cage with a shillelagh with the referee down, the lights went retired successful the arena.

Juice Robinson, Ace Austin, Colten Gunn and Austin Gunn appeared astatine the apical of the entranceway ramp appearing to get acceptable to onslaught The Dogs. As the lights turned on, White was successful the ring. He deed the Blade Runner connected Finlay arsenic the assemblage erupted.

Dax Harwood begs Adam Copeland for mercy astatine AEW Double oregon Nothing successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

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Whtie stepped backmost and gave Copeland the accidental to deed Finlay with a spear. The referee came backmost into the ringing and counted the fall. Copeland and Cage retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship.

It appeared White and the Bang Bang Gang’s rivalry with Finlay and Connors was conscionable getting started. Their issues stem from Finlay taking implicit the Bullet Club successful New Japan Pro-Wrestling, casting White retired from the group.

Jay White enters the ringing during New Japan Pro-Wrestling astatine Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center successful Sapporo, Japan, connected Feb. 4, 2023. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

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At slightest for now, Copeland and Cage made their archetypal palmy rubric defence and the rivalry betwixt White and his erstwhile Bullet Club compatriots its heating up erstwhile again.