History Wrestling / JayWhite

On April 5, 2023, Jay officially signed with AEW.

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** Ends his promos by telling whoever he's addressing, "You will breathe with the Switchblade."

** When he joined with Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada as a part of Wrestling/{{CHAOS}}, White made it very clear from the start he intended to come after Okada when the time came. Since beating the Rainmaker in the first main event of the 28th G1 Climax, White has become more open about his intentions to reshape CHAOS, even claiming that the stable, including Okada himself, belongs to him now.

Jamie "Jay" White (born 9 October 1992) is a New Zealand {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, currently signed to Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (NJPW), with occasional appearances on Wrestling/RingOfHonor (ROH), Revolution Pro Wrestling ([=RevPro=]/RPW) and Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling (AEW).

Consistently hovering near or within the NJPW main event picture even after losing the championship in April 2019, he became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion later that year, as well as the first person to successfully take the Wrestle Kingdom Contract briefcase away from the winner of the G1 Climax in 2020, both victories which played him into the IWGP Heavyweight/Intercontinental double gold sweepstakes of Wrestle Kingdoms 14 and 15. Despite coming up short both times to the very men that he beat heading in, Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito and Wrestling/KotaIbushi respectively, White recovered after a brief sabbatical to defeat Tanahashi again, becoming the first NJPW [[Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Quadruple Crown Champion]] by virtue of his NEVER Openweight Championship victory in May 2021. And yes, this is STILL ''his era''. Don't believe him? Ask Okada, who Jay beat AGAIN in June 2022 to become IWGP ''World'' Heavyweight Champion. However, amid reports that his contract with NJPW was nearing its end in early 2023, he appears to be doing business on the way out. First, he dropped the IWGP world title to Okada at ''Wrestle Kingdom 17'' on January 4. He then lost a "Loser Leaves Japan" match against Hikuleo at ''The New Beginning in Osaka'' on February 11, followed by a loss to Wrestling/EddieKingston in a "Loser Leaves NJPW" match at ''Battle in the Valley'' on February 18 in San Jose, California.

Jamie "Jay" White (born 9 October 1992) is a New Zealand {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, currently signed to Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling (NJPW), with occasional appearances with Wrestling/RingOfHonor (ROH) and Revolution Pro Wrestling ([=RevPro=]/RPW).

Consistently hovering near or within the NJPW main event picture even after losing the championship in April 2019, he became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion later that year, as well as the first person to successfully take the Wrestle Kingdom Contract briefcase away from the winner of the G1 Climax in 2020, both victories which played him into the IWGP Heavyweight/Intercontinental double gold sweepstakes of Wrestle Kingdoms 14 and 15. Despite coming up short both times to the very men that he beat heading in, Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito and Wrestling/KotaIbushi respectively, White recovered after a brief sabbatical to defeat Tanahashi again, becoming the first NJPW [[Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Quadruple Crown Champion]] by virtue of his NEVER Openweight Championship victory in May 2021. And yes, this is STILL ''his era''. Don't believe him? Ask Okada, who Jay beat AGAIN in June 2022 to become IWGP ''World'' Heavyweight Champion. However, amid reports that his contract with NJPW was nearing its end in early 2023, he appears to be doing business on the way out. First, he dropped the IWGP world title to Okada at ''Wrestle Kingdom 17'' on January 4. He then lost a "Loser Leaves Japan" match against Hikuleo at ''The New Beginning in Osaka'' on February 11, with a "Loser Leaves NJPW" match against Wrestling/EddieKingston coming at ''Battle in the Valley'' on February 18 in San Jose, California.

* LoserLeavesTown: As noted above, he lost a "Loser Leaves Japan" match to Hikuleo, and is soon to wrestle Eddie Kingston in a "Loser Leaves NJPW" match.

Consistently hovering near or within the NJPW main event picture even after losing the championship in April 2019, he became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion later that year, as well as the first person to successfully take the Wrestle Kingdom Contract briefcase away from the winner of the G1 Climax in 2020, both victories which played him into the IWGP Heavyweight/Intercontinental double gold sweepstakes of Wrestle Kingdoms 14 and 15. Despite coming up short both times to the very men that he beat heading in, Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito and Wrestling/KotaIbushi respectively, White recovered after a brief sabbatical to defeat Tanahashi again, becoming the first NJPW [[Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Quadruple Crown Champion]] by virtue of his NEVER Openweight Championship victory in May 2021. And yes, this is STILL ''his era''. Don't believe him? Ask Okada, who Jay beat AGAIN in June 2022 to become IWGP ''World'' Heavyweight Champion.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Putting "Switchblade" in front of his name makes it sound infinitely cooler.

** Bad Luck Fale once stated in an interview that his advice to Jay White regarding Bullet Club leader was to not call himself the leader, but simply ''be'' the leader, similar to Prince Devitt and AJ Styles as opposed to Kenny Omega and The Elite. Jay followed this for the first three years of his run at the front of BC, before starting to proclaim his leadership during an Impact Wrestling tour where he was joined by The Guerrillas of Destiny, months after Tama Tonga had started questioning him. Before very long, it was clear that Jay was ready to trade some people in and out and start reconstructing The Club in his own image, with Tama being the first victim of this.

** Bad Luck Fale once stated in an interview that his advice to Jay White regarding Bullet Club leader was to not call himself the leader, but simply ''be'' the leader, similar to Prince Devitt and AJ Styles as opposed to Kenny Omega and The Elite. Jay followed this for the first three years of his run at the front of BC, before starting to proclaim his leadership during an Impact Wrestling tour where he was joined by The Guerrillas of Destiny, months after Tama Tonga had started questioning him. Before very long, it was Jay was ready to trade some people in and out and start reconstructing The Club in his own image, with Tama being the first victim of this.

* FaceHeelTurn: Suddenly, the shining young upstart who came up through the dojo, who was best friends with David Finlay Jr., who the Wresstling/MotorCityMachineGuns saw as having potential to carry their vision of great exciting wrestling into the future, was gone, replaced by a gothic madman with dreams of [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over]] [[TakeOverTheWorld NJPW]].

Going through the dojo starting in 2015, he spent a year and a half there before the company sent him out on foreign excursions, where he began becoming a regular rising star with ROH and [=RevPro=]. During this time he became best known as one of the prospects that Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin were actively helping bring forward through the business, eventually joining them in a collective known as Search & Destroy which frequently butted heads with the ROH members of Wrestling/BulletClub.

* FaceHeelTurn: Suddenly, the shining young upstart who came up through the dojo, who was best friends with David Finlay Jr., who the Motor City Machine Guns saw as having potential to carry their vision of great exciting wrestling into the future, was gone, replaced by a gothic madman with dreams of [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over]] [[TakeOverTheWorld NJPW]].

## The Get Paid Era, where he finally pushed his own vision for the group forward while excising and minimizing all internal threats after having had his fill of being questioned for his whereabouts.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Bullet Club leaders are heels, Styles and Omega are at least popular among the fans due to their engaging or colorful personality, making them AffablyEvil at times. White on the other hand gets heat from the fans like a true heel, much like Devitt in the beginning but at a World Heavyweight threat level, and is often considered a supervillain or a FinalBoss. To wit, Jay is the longest running Bullet Club leader, as well as the one whose leadership can be split into ''three'' distinct fully-dedicated "eras" as it were:

Consistently hovering near or within the NJPW main event picture even after losing the championship in April 2019, he became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion later that year, as well as the first person to successfully take the Wrestle Kingdom Contract briefcase away from the winner of the G1 Climax in 2020, both victories which played him into the IWGP Heavyweight/Intercontinental double gold sweepstakes of Wrestle Kingdoms 14 and 15. Despite coming up short both times to the very men that he beat heading in, Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito and Wrestling/KotaIbushi respectively, White recovered after a brief sabbatical to defeat Tanahashi again, becoming the first NJPW [[Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Quadruple Crown Champion]] by virtue of his NEVER Openweight Championship victory in May 2021. And yes, this is STILL ''his era''.

** Former good friends David Finlay and Juice Robinson, who graduated in the same class from the NJPW Dojo, now both hate his guts. Aside from Jay being [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter 10-1 against David]] in singles competition dating back to their Young Boy days, Jay never said a thing to either man about becoming Switchblade or joining CHAOS, then proceeded to completely brush them off even after the fact. When Juice beat him for the United States Championship in San Francisco in 2018, the loss sent him into a rage in the post-match interview. He and Juice would reconcile in 2022 as a struggling Robinson would join the White-captained REAL Era Bullet Club, but this has no doubt made for hotter animosity with Finlay.

Finally, in late 2017, NJPW saw vignettes aired for a mysterious dark character called "Switchblade". This turned out to be the returning Jay White, with "Switchblade" as his new motif and nickname in a deliberately DarkerAndEdgier persona. Instantly marking his intention to make NJPW "his kingdom", he first challenged Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in 2018, coming up short. However, this only reinvigorated his drive, which Wrestling/KennyOmega, and the rest of NJPW, found out the hard way, starting when Omega attempted to invite White to join Bullet Club only to be introduced to a downward spiral which saw White capture Omega's IWGP United States Championship, later overtake Omega's position in Bullet Club as part of a long-running scheme, and finally take the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from Tanahashi, making White the fourth youngest IWGP Heavyweight Champion of all time, ushing in his ''new era'', the Cutthroat Era of Bullet Club.

Consistently hovering near or within the NJPW main event picture even after losing the championship in April 2019, he became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion later that year, as well as the first person to successfully take the Wrestle Kingdom Contract briefcase away from the winner of the G1 Climax in 2020, both victories which played him into the IWGP Heavyweight/Intercontinental double gold sweepstakes of Wrestle Kingdoms 14 and 15. Despite coming up short both times to the very men that he beat heading in, Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito and Wrestling/KotaIbushi respectively, White recovered after a brief sabbatical to defeat Tanahashi again, becoming the first NJPW [[Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Quadruple Crown Champion]] by virtue of his NEVER Openweight Championship victory in May 2021. And yes, this is STILL ''his era''. It's the REAL Era.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Bullet Club leaders are heels, Styles and Omega are at least popular among the fans due to their engaging or colorful personality, making them AffablyEvil at times. White on the other hand gets heat from the fans like a true heel, much like Devitt in the beginning but at a World Heavyweight threat level, and is often considered a supervillain or a FinalBoss.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Bullet Club leaders are heels, Styles and Omega are at least popular among the fans due to their engaging or colorful personality, making them AffablyEvil at times. White on the other hand gets heat from the fans like a true heel, much like Devitt was in the beginning but at a World Heavyweight threat level, and is often considered a supervillain or a FinalBoss.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Bullet Club leaders are heels, Styles and Omega are at least popular among the fans due to their engaging or colorful personality, making them AffablyEvil at times. White on the other hand is considered a true heel, much like Devitt was in the beginning but at a World Heavyweight threat level, getting heat from the fans and is often considered a supervillain or a FinalBoss.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Bullet Club leaders are heels, they are at least popular among the fans due to their colorful personality, making them AffablyEvil at times. White on the other hand is considered a true heel, getting Heat from the fans and is often considered a supervillain or a FinalBoss.