AEW x NJPW‘s Forbidden Door didn't have one main event, but two.

Though many a fan of AEW wanted nothing more than to see who would leave the United Center with the Interim AEW World Championship Belt and eventually earn a match with a returning CM Punk, the four-way bout for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship presented just as much intrigue, potentially even more, than the match scheduled for last on Forbidden Door‘s card, as it was jammed to the gills with interesting angles, longstanding feuds, and enough moves to make fans the world over leave their seats.

But who would win? Would it be “Switchblade” Jay White, the man holding the title when the opening bell rang? Or how about Kazuchika Okada, the man who took it from him? Would the belt be going back to AEW, and if so, with who? Adam Page, who wanted nothing more than to face-off against Okada in the bout, or Adam Cole, who wanted to perform with his Bullet Club buddy Jay White?

Well, fans ultimately found out that the “Switchblade” era of professional wrestling was still very much the present one, as “The Catalyst of Professional Wrestling” kept his reign alive at Forbidden Door.

Jay White rolled up his second singles win in AEW.

Early in their four-way bout for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, Adam Cole took Jay White aside to ask him a simple question: Why don't we work together?

Theoretically, the idea was sound; White and Cole are both members of the Bullet Club – lapsed or active – and have been working together for the entirety of their shared time in Tony Khan's promotion. If White agreed, the prospects of neutralizing “The Rainmaker” and “The Buckshot Lariat” would have been much easier to accomplish and then the duo could have the sort of Bullet Club showcase Cole wanted most heading into the match.

Fortunately, White nodded yes, and to his credit, Adam Cole's plan worked smashingly. Working as a make-shift unit, Cole and White put Page in a vertical suplex that ended with the “Cowboy's” back connecting with the video board on the ramp down to the ring, and they put in work on Okada too, who may be one of the best wrestlers in the world but is no match for two other performers who hold similar claims to that title.

But then, it happened, Cole saw an opening and hit White with the fittingly named backstabber, which put his foe on the canvas as a certain twinkle in his eye.

‘You tried to embarrass me, Jay?'

With the match back to full-on free for all, the quartet duked it out with varying degrees of reverence before Okada hit Cole with a particularly brutal Rainmaker setup that dropped him to the ground before White could slither back into the ring, hit a Blade Runner on “The Rainmaker” and then roll up his former friend for the 1-2-3.

While the commentary team did put fans at ease ever so slightly with the announcement that Cole was able to make his way out of the ring of his own volition, albeit with a little help from his Undisputed Elite buddies, the match's ending left more questions than answers, the least of which has to be when will the current Owen Cup holder make it back onto AEW television?