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 the AEW Tag Team Championship astatine Double oregon Nothing.

Cope and Cage and FTR battled successful a brutal lucifer that saw ladders, tools and adjacent a flaming array beryllium used. As the lucifer got much and much brutal, nary of the 4 men successful the 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 the tegument of each competitor.

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

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

Stokely Hathaway, the dependable down FTR, got progressive successful the lucifer arsenic well. But Beth Copeland, formerly known arsenic Beth Phoenix, made a astonishment quality to adjacent the odds. But she was taken retired earlier she could marque an contiguous impact.

Harwood, meanwhile, acceptable up a array and poured lighter fluid connected it. He past acceptable the array connected occurrence arsenic Wheeler got acceptable to spear Beth Copeland done it. However, Hathaway was pulled successful beforehand of Wheeler astatine the past 2nd and helium was speared done the array instead.

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

Adam Copeland and Cage went to enactment connected Harwood instantly after, tying him up similar 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 the dreaded words, "I quit." It gave Copeland and Cage the 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 the tag squad division.

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