For the third time, The Young Bucks are AEW Tag Team Champions thanks to interference from old friend Jack Perry at AEW Dynasty.
Matthew & Nicholas Jackson defeated FTR at Sunday's pay-per-view in a ladder match for the vacant titles, aided by Perry's surprise return. As Dax Harwood was up on the ladder and about to grab the belts, a man in a white mask and hood ran into the ring and pushed Harwood off the ladder.
Security swarmed him and commentary played it up like he was a fan, but they removed his mask to reveal Perry. Nicholas then was up on the ladder to grab the belts and win the titles. Perry was taken out by security afterward as the Bucks pretended to be surprised by everything.
The titles were vacated by Darby Allin & Sting following Sting's retirement at March's Revolution and put up in a tournament. FTR advanced with wins over The Infantry and Top Flight while the Bucks defeated Private Party and Best Friends (Orange Cassidy & Trent Beretta) to get to the finals.
It's the third reign for the Bucks and their first since a 28-day reign in 2022. This was the fourth-ever meeting between both teams with each winning two of them.
Perry has been out of AEW since last August's All In when he got into a backstage skirmish with CM Punk that AEW aired footage of several weeks ago. He just wrapped up a short run in NJPW where he adopted the "Scapegoat" moniker to help play off the Punk controversy.
SCAPEGOAT!! @boy_myth_legend #AEWDynasty
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Both teams did their best to follow the spectacular Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay match that preceded them, pulling out all the stops and eventually getting the crowd back into things.
Some highlights:
Wheeler hit a running spear to Matthew on the ring apron who then slid on the table and broke it before his body then nailed the barricade, followed by Nicholas hurricanrana counter onto Harwood through a table at ringside.
Bodies are flying EVERYWHERE!@daxftr | @cashwheelerFTR | @YoungBucks
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Harwood and Wheeler hit a massive powerplex onto Nicholas off the ladders.
SKY HIGH POWERPLEX!@daxftr | @cashwheelerFTR | @YoungBucks
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In a nasty looking bump, Nicholas hit a 450 splash onto Wheeler through a table while Harwood hit a piledriver onto Matt on top of a ladder, but the ladder broke making for an awkward fall.
"I hope that snap was a ladder and not a bone!"@daxftr | @cashwheelerFTR | @YoungBucks
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