AEW brought Double or Nothing to the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. A few matches had titles on the line, but the AEW World Title had an interesting stipulation.
Darby Allin has been a fighting champion since he won the AEW World Title. MJF is a former champion who wants that gold back, and he’s made that no secret. At AEW Double or Nothing, the two pillars of AEW battled in a title vs hair match.
Darby Allin won the AEW World Championship for the first time by defeating MJF on the April 15, 2026 edition of Dynamite: Spring BreakThru. The victory capped off years of momentum for one of AEW’s most popular homegrown stars.
Since then, Darby Allin has successfully defended the title eight times against Tommaso Ciampa, Brody King, Kevin Knight, PAC, Konosuke Takeshita, Sammy Guevara, Mike Bailey. Then he had MJF to face once again.
This match went down at the end of a very long night. After the Stadium Stampede match concluded, the AEW World Title finally took center stage. First, Darby Allin had another special entrance for a pay-per-view.
Early into the match, Darby Allin crashed and burned on a high-risk dive to the outside. After that, MJF maintained control of the contest as Allin continued selling everything the Salt of the Earth did to him. MJF wanted to end this match, but Allin continued to press on.
Eventually, Darby Allin gained the upper hand once again, and then it was MJF’s turn to take some punishment. They kept going through a few near-falls, and fans were on their feet for this match as the energy mounted. Later on, Darby went for another suicide dive, but MJF pulled a cameraman in front of him, which distracted the ring crew as they led him off. Although the spot was almost blown, they carried on, and then MJF carried Darby up to the barber’s chair, and he grabbed the hair clippers. Before MJF could give Darby a shave, he attacked the Salt of the Earth and choked him out.
Then MJF was placed on a table as Darby Allin scaled the scaffolding. Then he nailed MJF with a Coffin Drop dive that exploded the table. The back of Darby Allin’s head was busted open in the process, and he dragged MJF to the ring. When they got back, Allin latched on a Scorpion Death Lock, but MJF was able to get out of it.
MJF started to get up as Darby Allin lay on the canvas. Before MJF could strike, Darby hit a Scorpion Death Drop, and then he climbed up for another Coffin Drop, but MJF knocked him off balance. Then MJF went to the top rope, and he nailed a top rope tombstone piledriver before getting the pin to win the AEW World Title for a third time.
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