AEW Double or Nothing 2026 5/24/2026

AEW Double or Nothing 2026 5/24/2026

We are in NYC. Excalibur, Nigel McGuinness and Tony Schiavone are on commentary.

Renee and Mick Foley talk in the ring during the pre-show. MJF comes out when they talk about him. MJF says all Mick did was fail. He says Darby Allin will let you down tonight. He says Mick is an underdog like the fans and fails when his back is against the wall. Mick says he lost a lot of matches but he never lost a match in 2:15 like MJF. He says that's not a loss but a disgrace. He says he has Darby Allin to contend with. He says there's shades of him in Darby and says Darby will steal the show, keep the title and take MJF's hair. Mick says MJF has wavy hair and it's waving goodbye tonight. MJF then low blows him. Darby Allin comes down before he can do more and MJF runs. Mick tells MJF not to run away. 

Mick talks about Jon Moxley asking Mick to see Darby before AEW, as he says he was told he could do anything. Mick says seeing him succeeds is like seeing himself succeeds as Darby is the weird kid. He says to win one for the weird ones. Mick then says "bang bang".

Main Show 

AEW Tag Titles - I Quit Match - FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c) vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage

Cope and Cage can't team again if they lose. They all hockey fight to start. FTR goes out then comes back in. They fight again. Cage hits mounted corner punches on Dax then back body drops him. Dax lariats Cage down. Dax puts barbed wire around his arm. Cage hits a reverse ddt. Cage has a brace on his forearm. Cage puts barbed wire on the middle rope and trips Dax into it. Cage stands on Dax's back.

Cage whips Dax with a belt then Cope whips both FTR members. Cage chokes Dax with a belt and hangs him. Cash chairs Cage then bangs his arm off a chair. Cope rams FTR with a ladder. Cope pulls a table out. Dax and Cope trade shots with Cope on the apron. Cope lariats Dax over the top and goes with him.

Cash chairs Cope. Cash puts a chair around Cope's head and sends him into the post. Dax brings a toolbox in. Cage grabs plyers from it and grabs Dax's nose with it. He then grabs Cash with the plyers in the nuts. Dax hits him with a tool box then chairs his arm.

Cash chairs Cage. Cope and Dax get on a commentary table. Cope is spike piledrivered through it. Cage's arm is banged off the steps. Cash tries to it with a cement block but misses. Cage's arm is put in the block hole and Dax chairs it. Cage is asked if he quits and says he banged his mother.

Cage then get his arm chaired again. Cage bites Dax's head. Cage hits an unprettier on Cash. Stoke unhooks the top rope. Cage spears Dax. Cage chokes Dax with a tag rope. Cash then chokes Cage with barbed wire. Cage is hit with a shatter machine. Cash hits Cage with a mic. Cope spears Cash and Dax.

Cope chairs both FTR members. Cage goes to chair Dax. Dax begs off on the mic. Cash says he'll quit if he stops. Stokeley punches Cope with a watch. Cope takes a shatter machine. Cope's wife Beth Copeland (Beth Pheonix) comes out. She hits Stoke with punches. Dax sends Beth into the steps.

Dax puts lighter fluid on a table then sets the table on fire. Cash spears Stoke through the burning table when Beth moves. Dax goes to hit Cope with a conchairto and tells him to quit. Beth low blows Dax. Cage low blows Dax. Cope piledrivers Dax. Cage sharpshooters Dax. Cope crossfaces Dax at the same time. Beth then grabs Cope's spike 2x4. Cope then puts it in Dax's head. Dax says he quits and Cope's team wins.

Thoughts: They did too much for the opener here. How do you really top barbed wire, fire, spike sticks and run-in's in the first match? It was a pretty quick moving match. I would have liked some blood, which we oddly didn't get, a slower pace and just more drama over big spots. I still liked it, but they got very little out of the "I Quit" concept here. 

Takeshita does a subtitled video where he says a photo is more than an image and can tell stories about how your journey can begin and remind you of your sacrifices to chase goals. He says it can show you where you are going. He says the final image will show him beating Okada.

AEW International Title - Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Konosuke Takeshita

Don Callis is on commentary for this.

They stare down and trade forearms. KO side headlocks him then facekicks him. KT goes for raging fire and they stare down. KO is facekicked then he flying lariats him. KT is sat up top and KO dropkicks him down. KT is sent into the rails.

KT is rammed into the rails. KO tries to pin him with one foot. KT exploders KO. KT flying knees KO. KT tope con hilos him. KO over the back neckbreakers KT on the knee. KO slams and top rope elbow drops KT.

KT flips out of a german. KT wheelbarrow germans him. KO no sells it and dropkicks him then lariats him. They fight on the apron. KT pumping knees him. KO rainmakers him on the apron. KO ddt's him on the floor. KO tries to tombstone KT on the floor and Don leaves commentary to stop KO, saying KO will break his neck. KT brainbusters KO on the floor. Don yells at KT for it and they argue.

KT corner facekicks KO. KT top rope superplexes him inside. KT forearms him then reaches between his legs and germans him for 2. KO tombstones him. They trade forearms. KT blue thunders him. KO tilt-a-whirl slams him. KO backslides him into a short-arm lariat. KO dropkicks him.

KO goes for the rainmaker and is lariated by KT. KO dropkicks him then KT pumping knees him for 1. KT hits raging fire on KO for the win.

Thoughts: The selling was poor here as often is the case with Takeshita. They hit a lot of big moves then they would just pop back up after. I liked Don getting involved at times and it's too bad they couldn't further it. They kept up a fast pace here and kept things moving but there wasn't a ton of story. KT kind of was the face in this. It wasn't the smart match it could have been and I thought they had potential for a lot more of a story in this than what we got.

Rocky and Mark Davis get in the ring with Don and Okada. KT stands across from all 4 of them like it's about to be a 4v1 fight. Kyle Fletcher then comes out.  Kyle stares down KT then stares down with Okada. Don, Rocky, Okada and Mark leave Kyle and KT in the ring. Kyle hugs KT. Kyle holds up KT's arm and lariats him. Don and Okada smile. Kyle grabs KT by the head and brainbusters him.  

Kyle and Okada both grab the title but Okada lets Kyle grab it. Kyle hits KT with the title.

Thoughts: The turn made no sense. Don has always talked about wanting more gold and even stopped Okada from tombstoning KT on the floor. Why would Don want to kick a champ out of his group? That's Mr. Fuji leaving Demolition while they were tag champs for The Powers of Pain all over again.

Owen Hart Foundation Women's Tournament Quarterfinals - Athena vs Mina Shirakawa

Ath backs up Mina in the corner. Ath misses a corner charge and Mina kicks her off the ropes. Mina armdrags Ath and dropkicks her in the knee. Ath uranage's her on the floor. Ath misses a charge and goes knee first into the steps. Mina is sent into the commentary table front. Ath dropkicks her against the LED board rails.

They get back in. Mina knee drops Ath's leg. Mina leg kicks Ath and drops her with a forearm inside. Mina puts Ath's leg on the 2nd rope and stomps the back of it down. Ath hits wasteland on her for 2. Mina backrolls Ath. Mina springboard kicks her.  

Mina slingblades her. Mina tornado ddt's her. Mina slingshot tornillo's her outside. Mina top rope dropkicks her. Mina spanks her then spinning drops her from the electric chair. Ath headscissors takedowns her from the mat. Ath curbstomps her.

Mina blocks an o-face then backrolls her for 2. Mina flying headscissors her for 2. Mina hits some strikes then figure fours her. Ath ropebreaks. Mina uraken's her. Mina knees her in the head. Ath pumphandle tombstones her. Ath hits a top rope diving o-face and wins.

Thoughts: Ath winning was kind of a surprise as this isn't ROH and she has lost a lot here. Mina worked Ath's leg a bit here but Ath overcame it to win. It was acceptable but nothing too memorable.

AEW Continental Title - Jon Moxley (c) vs Kyle O’Reilly

Jim Ross takes Tony Schiavone's place on commentary for this.

They trade some holds to start. Kyle hits leg kicks. Mox side headlocks and wristlocks him. Kyle kicks him in the back. Mox kicks him in the back. They go head to head and trade forearms. Kyle hits a strike combo and legsweeps him. 

Kyle guillotines him. Mox slams him down and hits mounted shots. Mox ankle locks him and Kyle sends him out. Kyle flying knees him off the apron. Kyle hits leg kicks outside. Mox's head is banged off the steps. Kyle's leg goes into the post. Mox chops and forearms him outside. They trade forearms. Kyle falls down when he tries leg kicks. Mox knee drops his leg. Mox dragon screws him and hits shots to the gut.  

Mox dropkicks the leg against the ropes. Mox does a figure four variation on him. Mox bites Kyle's eye. Kyle hits knees on him. Kyle chest kicks him down. Mox guillotines him. Kyle throws him down by the arm. Kyle 2nd rope flying knees him. Kyle armbars him then half crabs him. Kyle blocks a dragon screw and armbars him. Kyle then ankle locks him. Kyle stomps his leg and PK's him.

Kyle curbstomps Mox. Mox cutters him. Mox hits corner lariats. Mox facekicks him and Kyle rebounds into a double clothesline. They box while on their knees and trade strikes. Mox lariats him down then hits a death rider ddt for 2. Mox does a choke and Kyle backrolls into an ankle lock. Mox ankle locks him. Kyle taps out.

Thoughts: It was a good bout with Mox working Kyle's leg and eventually winning off of it. It was a submissions based match but they did some nice striking as well. It got enough time to play out and it just was a nice clean match.

They shake hands after. 

Owen Hart Foundation Men's Tournament Quarterfinals - Will Ospreay vs. Samoa Joe

Will os cutters Joe when he gets in before the bell. Will stomps him in the corner and hits facewash kicks. Joe then elbows him over. Joe hits chops. Will dropkicks him. Will slingshot plancha's him. Will springboard 450's him for 2 then goes for the armbar. Joe ropebreaks.

Joe goes out. Will flying space tigers out but Joe is out of the way and then sleepers him from behind. Will is thrown hard into the LED board rails and hits the back of his head off fo them. 

Joe hits corner forearms and punches in the corner. Joe then does facewash kicks. Joe does a trapezius hold to Will. Will hits shots to the gut. They trade forearms. Joe spinning forearms him down. Joe elbows him in the neck. 

They trade chops. Joe hits Kawada kicks and chops him down. Joe chops him neck. Will gets his knee up on Joe's senton. Will hits chops and Joe corner enzugiri's him. Will 2nd rope double stomps Joe's arm. Will gamengiri's him.

Will hits chops on Joe. Will handspring corkscrew kicks him for 2. Will hits Kawada kicks. Will buzzsaw kicks him. Joe walks away from Will's os cutter and sentons him for 2. Joe powerbombs him for 2 then does some holds. Joe chest kicks him down and Will pops up and asks for more. Will fires up and hits a strike combo. Joe slaps him around then spinning forearms him.

Will hits a styles clash for 2. Will hidden blade's him for 2. Joe powerslams him. Will la mistica drops him then rolling armbars him. Joe puts a sleeper on him. Will superkicks him. Joe corner uranage's him. Joe grounded sleepers him. Will ropebreaks.

Joe sits him up top and headbutts him. Will hits a hidden blade for 1. Will hidden blades him from behind and pins him.

Thoughts: I liked it. They kept it moving and didn't go too crazy here. They ended it at the right time too. The backwards throw Will took into the rails looked rough. They definitely channeled some of the Joe/AJ matches a bit. I'm not sure where Joe goes here with the loss and it seems like his little storyline with Will is now done.

Owen Hart Foundation Men's Tournament Quarterfinals - Swerve Strickland vs Bandido

Swerve gets fireworks for his entrance.

They hockey fight to start. SS shoulders him over. Band slaps him. Band goes up and over then dropkicsk him in the knee. Band double stomps his back then kicks his back. Band flying headscissors SS then SS lariats him over. 

SS stomps Band then neckbreakers him. Band pump kicks him. Band kips down and handstands out of a kick. Band one arm gorilla press throws him out of the ring. Band running dropkicks him from the apron. SS is sent into the rails.

Band superkicks him outside. SS is sat in a chair. Band flying cannonballs him off the apron, knocking him over the chair. Band hits corner spears then misses a flying spear in the corner. Band goes into the 2nd buckle face first. SS germans him into the buckles. 

SS stands on his throat. SS pulls on his chin. SS lariats him from behind. SS knee drops him while he's down. Band superkicks him. Band facekicks and euros him. Band top rope tornillo's him. Band hits flying forearms. 

Band superkicks him then germans him. Band hits a top rope frogsplash for 2. SS rolls into a jumping flatliner on him for 2. SS stands on Band's shoulders and back kicks him. SS top rope double stomps him for 2. 

They get on the apron. SS slaps him. Band poisonrana's him off the apron to the floor. Band hits a 21plex inside and strts holding his neck when he goes for the pin. Band is popped up and he hurricanrana's SS. SS blocks a 21plex with a kudo driver. SS house call kicks him and pins him.

Thoughts: I didn't like the poisonrana off the apron not meaning much when that should have ended this. Oddly, Band sold that move more than Swerve did. It didn't go too long at least and Band really did ry to sell his neck here. They didn't go too too far with this and they kept it interesting, so this was okay overall.

AEW Women's Title - Thekla (c) vs Jamie Hayter vs Hikaru Shida vs Kris Statlander

Thek is triple booted to start. She takes moves from all 3 opponents. Jamie takes a double boot and a double knee to the head. Jamie double lariats Shida and Kris. Thek buzzsaw kicks Jamie for 2. Thek flying headscissors Kris then running boots her in the head. Jamie and Thek take a corner splash from Kris.

Kris and Jamie shoulder battle. They lariat each other. Thek tries to crossbody them but gets caught and Shida top rope dropkicks them all down. Shida and Kriss are rolled up for 2 counts. We get more roll up's. Shida step up enzugiri's Jamie then Kris lariats Jamie over the top. 

Everyone is sent out except Shida. Jamie boots Shida out on the floor. Thek top rope plancha's her 3 opponents outside. Shida is sent into the rails. Then whips Jamie into the steps. Thek stomps Kris then pulls on her mouth in the ring while her arms are tied up. Kris bites Thek's fingers.

Kris slams Thek twice. Kris is sent chest first into the buckles. Thek hanging headscissors Kris over the top rope. Thek's reverse alabama slammed face first into the top buckle. Thek spider superplexes Kris. Shida 2nd rope superplexes Jamie. Jamie release saito suplexes her. Thek spears Kris. Thek and Jamie headbutt each other at the same time. Thek and Jamie take backdrops. 

All 4 girls pound on each other on their knees. Thek and Shida take buzzsaw kicks. Jamie and Kris trade forearms then crossbody each other at the same time. Shida tilt-a-whirl backbreakers Thek. Thek rolls her up for 2. Thek buzzsaw kicks her. Jamie exploders Kris. Kris hits chops on Jamie. Shida flying knees Jamie.

Kamie uranage backbreakers Thek. Thek does a christo to Jamie. Jamie backbreakers her. Jamie hits a hard lariat on Thek for 2. Shida forearms Jamie then falcon arrows her. Shida slaps Kris then Kris club flurries her. Kris bangs her head into the steps and pump kicks Jamie outside. 

Kris superkicks Thek then one-legged packagae piledrivers her. Shida hits Kris with the kendo stick. Jamie pulls Shida out and they double lariat each other on the floor. Thek curbstomps Kris and pins her.

Thoughts: It was an alright bout here. Everything went well. I liked Kris' fire up spot. Jamie was nice and stiff here and Thek won this as expected. It could have maybe went a little shorter but it was totally fine otherwise. 

Stadium Stampede

We see the heels arrive in fancy cars. Clark and DF arrive in a pick-up truck on hydralics. The Demand wear baseball jerseys out. The faces get some special graphics with their names on it movie style. Kenny chokes on cigar smoke. The faces then do a "hangs in" cheer. The faces all come out in suits.

Everyone fights at the same time and half fight outside. We get a 4 camera view. Ric takes corner attacks. Bobby chokeslams Ric out onto his buddies outside. The Bucks and Kenny are pulled out. Idolo suplexes Jakc 3 times in a row.

Idolo is up top and takes a step up knee form SB. Clark spears SB. Mark piledivers Bobby onto an open chair seat. Toa throws Jericho out. Toa puts 3 people on his shoulders and samoan drops them all. 

Ric dropkicks Jericho off the apron. Ric walks up the buckles and springboard SSP's outside. Toa abdominal stretches Kenn and all he heels form a chain to yank on him. MVP breaks it up with a cane shot to Ric's arm then everyone falls over. 

Kenny back body drops DF out onto his buddies. Kenny and The Bucks hit stereo topes. SB tope con hilos outside. Jericho top rope plancha's outside. SB goes to the back with someone. The faces do stereo mounted corner punches. Jack diving hurricanrana's Mark off the apron then the faces do 4 hurricanrana's in a row off the buckles.

The faces all get hit from behind. The faces then do 3 sharpshooters and a crab. Jack hits Mark with something that is smoking and then he moonsaults onto him. Tables are set up. We go to the back and there's fighting in the medical area. Kaun is sent into a box. Toa hits elbows and headbutts on Bobby. Bobby runs into Lio Rush who acta weird. Toa grabs Lio and Lio bites his hand. Lio then jumps on Toa's back and they double team Toa.

Kenny chokes Idolo with something. Some of the faces fight in the merch stand. The Bucks and Clark fight near the escalator. Clark is superkicked onto it and gets sent upwards. Idolo takes photos with girls then finds Luchasaurus in a wig. Lucha green mists Idolo.

Jericho pours out a bag of tennis balls. Ric is suplexed onto them. Ric death valley drivers Jericho onto the tennis balls. Mark and Jack fight in catering. They run into someone and Mark forearms him down. 

Idolo is stripped into Satnam Singh. Sat's food goes into his face. Sat declares a food fight. Food is thrown and Sat gorilla press drops someone onto a table. DF forearms a Buck at ringside. DF is hit with a trash can. Clark takes a trash can shot. Clark is put in a shopping cart with a can on his head. He is then pushed into a superkick. Toa lariats The Bucks and nails a ref too.

A Buck is put in a shopping cart and Kaun dropkicks him over. Toa throws a shopping cart at the other Buck. SB comes out and is superkicked and hit with DF's shillelagh. Toa sentons SB on the apron.

Bobby come down and hits Kaun. DF hits Bobby with a shillelagh. Clark spears Bobby hard. Ric hits Jericho with a tennis racket in the back. Jericho boots Ric over. Jericho opens a door and finds Luther with a giant tennis racket. Jericho hits Ric with it. Jericho then uses an automatic ball throwing machine and throws balls at Ric. Ric is thrown into a rollaway garage door. 

SB and a Buck hit suplexes together on the heels. DF is hit with a trash can. A Buck does a double northern lights suplex.SB double germans Clark and DF. Clark and DF take double superkicks. Toa takes a triple superkick. Bobby spears Toa. 

Outside, Mark Davis' eye is wrapped up after he had tripped into a chair leg. Mark finds a golf cart. Jack drives a bus in and rams the golf cart and a car. Kenny gets offense in on DF and Clark. Kenny snap drags Idolo. Kenny pumping knees Idolo. 

SB apron germans Toa through a table and both have bad landings. Mark is belly to belly suplexed on a floor then speared into a table against the rails. Jack, Jericho and The Bucks hit top rope dives onto people through tables. Kenny OWA's Idolo through a table off the apron. 

Ric is ganged up on inside. He takes a big spear, a flying knee and a BTE Trigger. Kaun saves Ric. Kaun takes a 7 person superkick. Jericho asai moonsaults Kaun and pins him.

Thoughts: We've seen these before and it was similar. It wasn't super serious and was about them having fun and doing some cool spots. they did all that. It was a fun match and it was good. Mark Davis seems to have tripped into a chair leg and hurt his eye which concerns me. There were some rough bumps taken here and we know there was at least one injury coming out of it. I enjoyed it. This was a totally random and thrown together match though. 

Jericho jumps through a table after in tribute to Sabu which I didn't like.

AEW World Title - Title vs Hair - Darby Allin (c) vs MJF

DA side headlock takeovers him 3x to start. DA dropkicks him out. DA misses a tope con hilo through the ropes and lands very hard on the back of his neck. MJF yells at him and hits a hard apron edge powerbomb. MJF slingshot cutters him for 2 then bites him. DA goes for a coffin drop and is hit from behind. MJF powerbomb backbreakers him on the knee for 2.

MJF chokes him on the ropes and eye rakes him. DA its elbows on MJF's neck then MJF 2nd rope power slams him. DA hits slaps. DA topes him hard into the commentary table. MJF is clubbed on the apron. DA tries a coffin drop off the apron but MJF moves and DA lands on the apron. MJF package piledrivers him on the side of the steps.

DA low bows MJF and side headlock takeovers him for 2. MJF top rope double stomps DA's arm. DA scorpion deathlocks him. DA tries a coffin drop but MJF gets his knees up. DA reverse ddt's him. They side headlock takeover each other. DA sunset flips him for 2 then MJF sunset flips him. They trade pin attempts. 

MJF backslides him for 2. MJF double throat thrusts him then DA hits a code red for 2. They try more pin attempts. DA topes the camera man when MJF pulls the camera man in front of him. MJF puts DA in a chair on the stage. DA guillotine chokes him out on the stage. DA puts MJF on a table on the stage. He climbs a scaffold and coffin drops MJF. 

DA's bleeding from the back of the head. He tries to drag MJF to the ring. DA top rope coffin drops him inside for 2. DA sharpshooters MJF. DA drops the hold due to fatigue. MJF side headlocks him then DA reverse ddt's him. DA is crotched up top. MJF 2nd rope tombstones him. MJF side headlock takeovers him and pins him.

Thoughts: MJF won as expected. He's close to home and he paid too much for that hair to lose it. They overdid it as expected and Darby took some terrible looking bumping as he always does.  It could have been sped up a bit more at times and the finishing stretch could have been better. I was alright with this overall.

DA is put on a stretcher after. MJF stands on him and holds the title up. Kevin Knight comes down and chases MJF away. Kevin then top rope 180 splashes Darby on the stretcher to end the show.

Thoughts: That was a surprise. Kevin was doing fine as a face and I don't love to turn faces who got organically over. We will see what he looks like as a heel, but they have a heel like him and it's Ricochet and he can do more than Kevin can. Ricochet is just older. 

Overall thoughts: It was a very good PPV from AEW. The only match I didn't like all that much was Okada/Takeshita as they didn't sell. The wrestlers gave the typical PPV level effort with everyone going all out and giving their all. The women's matches were better than expected. Stadium Stampede was my match of the night and Ospreay/Joe was done pretty well too. As always, they could have done a little less in most of the matches, but it wasn't as egregious as usual. I also do wish they could get the length down as this went over 4 hours as it's an endurance contest for me, especially when the show goes past midnight. I'd give this an 8 out of 10.