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David Finlay and The Dogs Have Two AEW Goals: Stack Bodies and Win Gold

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AEW has a new dominant group on the rise. After their debut on AEW Dynamite last week, The Dogs — Gabe Kidd, Clark Connors, and David Finlay — aren’t here to fool around. As has always been their mantra, they’re in AEW to “stack bodies and win gold.”

Kidd has been in AEW on-and-off over the last year, joining up with The Death Riders for a common goal. Connors has made appearances since 2022, including at AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door last year, teaming with Drilla Moloney and Robbie X on the pay-per-view. They’ve both had a heightened presence in the last few weeks, which we now know is because of the debut of Finlay. The former leader of the Bullet Club turned War Dogs has been the talk of the town since his free agency began. He’s spent years in New Japan Pro-Wrestling cementing himself as a star, and now he’s ready to take that global in AEW.

Reports of a WWE offer were circulating before his signing, but Finlay seems confident in his decision to align with AEW.

“Obviously, I got family ties, but I haven’t made a single dime with my brother. I haven’t made a single dime. I have almost paid off a house with the War Dogs. And now we’ve dropped the war because we don’t want to give New Japan any more money. We’ve given them enough money. I want to be with my boys. I want to be with the guys that, you know, we’re stacking fat bags of cash.

Kidd chimes in, “The Japanese Prime Minister should thank us. The reason that the Japanese economy isn’t worse than it already is is because we were selling so much merch. So it’s game over.”

Kidd was positioned as NJPW’s next top gaijin after the company became somewhat of a revolving door for foreigners (much to the displeasure of the fans in Japam). At NJPW New Beginning, Kidd made comments backstage about leaving Japan to explore his other options. But will he be back at some point?

“First of all, you’re asking me a question like I know the answer to that. Yo, I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next 20 minutes. It could go off in........

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