Adam Copeland, Christian Cage snap 25-year drought, win AEW Tag Team Championship at Double or Nothing

NEW YORK – Adam Copeland and Christian Cage ended a 25-year drought of tag squad titles connected Sunday erstwhile they forced Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler to discontinue successful their lucifer for nan AEW Tag Team Championship astatine Double aliases Nothing.

Cope and Cage and FTR battled successful a sadistic lucifer that saw ladders, devices and moreover a flaming array beryllium used. As nan lucifer sewage much and much brutal, nary of nan 4 men successful nan ringing were instantly going to quit. Cage had his limb smashed aggregate times, Wheeler had a portion of his chemoreceptor astir taken disconnected and barbed ligament scraped nan tegument of each competitor.

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Adam Copeland and Christian Cage triumph astatine AEW Double aliases Nothing successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

FTR and Cage and Cope compete successful a wrestling lucifer astatine AEW Double aliases Nothing successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

Stokely Hathaway, nan sound down FTR, sewage progressive successful nan lucifer arsenic well. But Beth Copeland, formerly known arsenic Beth Phoenix, made a astonishment quality to moreover nan odds. But she was taken retired earlier she could make an contiguous impact.

Harwood, meanwhile, group up a array and poured lighter fluid connected it. He past group nan array connected occurrence arsenic Wheeler sewage fresh to spear Beth Copeland done it. However, Hathaway was pulled successful beforehand of Wheeler astatine nan past 2nd and he was speared done nan array instead.

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FTR hits a Shatter Machine connected Christian Cage astatine nan AEW Double aliases Nothing arena successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

Adam Copeland and Cage went to activity connected Harwood instantly after, tying him up for illustration a pretzel successful aggregate submission maneuvers. Beth Copeland recovered a spiked bat and handed it to her husband, who added to Harwood’s misery.

Harwood said nan dreaded words, "I quit." It gave Copeland and Cage nan titles.

Copeland and Cage are a legendary tag team, who won tag squad titles 7 times successful WWE. But since they each joined AEW, nether had been capable to get immoderate benignant of gold. But much than 25 years later, they are backmost connected apical of nan tag squad division.

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

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The past clip they were tag squad champions was backmost successful April 2001. They won nan titles astatine WrestleMania X-7 successful a tables, ladders and chairs lucifer but mislaid it to Kane and The Undertaker conscionable 16 days later.