Recap of AEW Double or Nothing and Buy In, 24 May 2026

===AEW Double or Nothing 24 May 2026===

Louis Armstrong Stadium, Flushing, Queens, NY

RESULTS

BUY IN

• 5-Minute Tag Team Championship Eliminator: AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions DIVINE DOMINION ("Megasus" Megan Bayne & "Colossal" Lena Kross) def. VIVA VAN & ZAYDA STEEL (with Christopher Daniels) via pinfall, Megan Bayne over Zayda Steel
• Trios: DEATH RIDERS (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia) (with Marina Shafir) def. THE OPPS (HOOK, Anthony Bowens, Katsuyori Shibata) via pinfall, Claudio Castagnoli over Anthony Bowens
• 10-Man Tag: BOOM & DOOM ("Big BOOM!" AJ & QT Marshall) (with Big Justice & Vita Coco M'n) & THE CONGLOMERATION (Mark Briscoe, AEW World Trios Champions Orange Cassidy & Roderick Strong) (with Harley Cameron & The Rizzler) . SHANE TAYLOR PROMOTIONS (Shane Taylor, Capt. Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo, ROH Men's Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, Anthony Ogogo) (with Christyan XO) via pinfall, "Big BOOM!" AJ over Carlie Bravo
• Interference against QT Marshall by Christyan XO
• Interference in favor of the winning team by Big Justice 

DOUBLE OR NOTHING

• LAST CHANCE I QUIT MATCH for the AEW Men's World Tag Team Championships: CAGE & COPE (Christian Cage & "Rated-R Superstar" Adam Copeland) def. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c) (with Stokely), Dax Harwood quits, in 19:34
• Interference against Adam Copeland by Stokely
• Interference against Dax Harwood by BETH COPELAND 
• NEW AEW MEN'S WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS; 19th reign all-time
• Fourth championship in AEW for Cage and third for Copeland; first World championship in AEW for Copeland, second for Cage (Trios)
• FTR's third reign ends at 183 days and seven successful defenses, fall to 22-10 in matches for the AEW Men's World Tag Team titles all-time
• AEW International Championship: NJPW World Television Champion KONOSUKE TAKESHITA def. KAZUCHIKA OKADA (c) via pinfall in 19:01
• NEW AEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION; 13th reign all-time and second for Takeshita; Takeshita improves to 11-2 in matches for the AEW International title all-time
• Okada's reign ends at nine successful defenses over 316 days 
• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: ROH Women's World Champion ATHENA def. MINA SHIRAKAWA via pinfall in 10:46
• Athena advances to semifinal, will face winner of Skye Blue/Sareee 
• AEW Continental Championship, no time limit: JON MOXLEY (c) def. AEW World Trios Champion KYLE O'REILLY via submission in 18:44
• Fourth defense of the AEW Continental title this reign by Moxley, improves to 22-4-2 in matches under Continental Rules all-time
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: WILL OSPREAY def. SAMOA JOE via pinfall in 13:52
• Ospreay advances to semifinal, will face winner of Mark Davis/Jungle Jack Perry
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: SWERVE STRICKLAND (with Prince Nana) def. ROH Men's World Champion BANDIDO via pinfall in 15:15
• Strickland advances to semifinal, will face winner of Brody King/Claudio Castagnoli
• AEW Women's World Championship 4-WAY: "Toxic Spider" THEKLA (c) def. JAMIE HAYTER, "Cosmic Killer" KRIS STATLANDER, HIKARU SHIDA via pinfall, Thekla over Kris Statlander
• Sixth defense of the AEW Women's World title this reign by Thekla
• Stadium Stampede: JERICHO, THE HURT SYNDICATE (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin) (with MVP), THE ELITE (Kenny Omega, "Jungle" Jack Perry, Young Bucks [Matt & Nick Jackson]) def. THE DEMAND (Ricochet, Toa Liona, Bishop Kaun), AEW National Champion MARK DAVIS, IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO, THE DOGS (David Finlay & "100 Proof" Clark Connors) via pinfall, Jericho over Bishop Kaun, in 31:10
• Interference against Ricochet by MVP
• Attack against Toa Liona by LIO RUSH 
• Interference against Andrade El Ídolo by LUCHASAURUS 
• Assist to Jericho by LUTHER 
• HAIR VS. TITLE for the AEW Men's World Championship: MJF def. DARBY ALLIN (c) via pinfall in 24:01
• NEW AEW MEN'S WORLD CHAMPION; 18th reign all-time and third for MJF, improves to 20-4 (18-4 on AEW programming) in matches for the AEW Men's World title
• Fourth championship in AEW for MJF (3x Men's World, 1x International)
• Allin's reign ends at seven successful defenses over 39 days, falls to 8-4 career in matches for AEW Men's World title

DEVELOPMENTS

• Champs getting some heat in after the 5-minute eliminator; Megan wipes out Daniels with a boot before they hit Divine Intervention on Viva. TAY MELO and ANNA JAY run in with weapons to make the save.
• AJ and QT come out with a big ass walking thing of Vita Coco.
• QT Marshall gets up on the top but Stephon Smith gets distracted and Christyan XO crotches him. The Rizzler and Harley Cameron walk over to taunt at her. Christyan shoves Harley so they get into a catfight which Harley wins in about 3 seconds. She high fives the Rizzler.
• There's a big ass tower of doom spot happening before the end. Big Justice throws a bunch of coconut water into the faces of the members of STP that are on top to disorient them. I think this spot is supposed to top off with QT doing a Blockbuster but QT loses his balance and crashes and burns all the way off the top turnbuckle to the floor. They do the spot anyway and AJ pins Carlie to win. AJ got color the hard way somehow
• EDDIE KINGSTON, ORTIZ, and MANCE WARNER are here to chase off Shane Taylor Promotions. They're still bitter about losing that 6-man tag title match a couple weeks ago.
• Mick Foley and Renee Paquette are talking in the ring about the main event. Mick predicts that Darby's going to hang onto the title tonight and now MJF comes out pissed as fuck. He says people consider Mick a legend even though in the biggest moments of his career, all he did was fail. Max tells Mick that he and Darby are a lot alike: they're underdogs, and when their backs are against the wall, they do what they do best: lose.
• Mick says he's going to give Max a piece of advice, and a piece of history: he lost a lot of matches in his career, but not only could The Rock recall that he won quite a few too, he also never lost one in 2 minutes and 15 seconds. "Unless you want to be known as the man whose matches can time an egg, you better put your big boy pants on, because you've got Darby Allin to contend with!"
• Max kicks Mick in the nuts and tries to go for a ring shot but DARBY ALLIN is here to make the save. That chases Max off and now Mick addresses Darby, saying that he didn't know until a month ago that he was an inspiration to Darby. Foley tells Darby to win one for the weird ones tonight. 
• Dax tries to wrap barbed wire around his elbow pad and charges Christian in the corner who repels him. Christian then wraps that around the rope and drop toe holds Dax into it and chokes him on the rope. He also takes Paul Turner's belt and whips him with it. Paul sells this by repeatedly adjusting his pants.
• Dax produces a toolbox from the timekeeper's area. Christian cuts him off in the ring and takes out a pair of pliers and uses it on Dax's mustache before grabbing Cash by the balls with them. They then obliterate him with a chair. They also hit a spike piledriver on Copeland on the Spanish announce desk.
• A cinder block has been taken to the cast on Christian's left arm. They put his arm inside the block and Pillmanize it several times as if that would do anything. Christian teases like he's going to say he quits but instead says "I banged your mother."
• Stokely is unscrewing the entire top turnbuckle. He gives it to Dax who charges Christian but instead gets cut off by a spear and chokes Dax. We then hear Dax's real voice. Christian eats a Shatter Machine after Cash chokes him with barbed wire. Cash grabs the microphone, says "this big pussy is gonna quit" and hits him with a wrench but Copeland hits them both with spears.
• Cash from the floor tells Copeland he'll say it but it's a diversion for Stokely to hit him in the face with the watch he stole from Christian. That staggers Edge long enough for FTR to hit the Shatter Machine. He rolls out as Stokely celebrates in the ring--but BETH COPELAND has returned to get her revenge. Stokely meets her at the stage and they brawl down to the ring but Dax ambushes her and throws her into the side of the ring steps.
• As FTR usually do when they see a woman, they have decided it is time to kill Beth Copeland. Dax pours an entire bottle of lighter fluid onto a table and lights it as Stokely holds Beth in place on the apron for Cash to spear her. As Cash is charging, Beth slips away, leaving Stokely to take the full spear into the flaming table.
• Dax is alone now, but Edge is still wiped out in the ring, so he goes to conchairto him. He demands Edge quit if he wants to see his daughters tomorrow. Beth in the corner has been playing possum though, and low blows him as he lifts up the chair. Christian also runs up and punts him in the balls. Adam spears him.
• Edge and Christian get Dax into a sharpshooter and crossface at the same time. Somehow that's not enough, and Adam signals for Beth to retrieve Spike, who has been under the ring stairs on the west side. Adam has given up the crossface and instead just shoves Spike into the top of Dax's head and this is enough to finally get Dax to say the magic words. 
• Don Callis on commentary for Okada-Takeshita. He says after this match he's going to meet up with Davis and the boys to prepare for the Stampede.
• Takeshita lands on his feet out of a German suplex and tries the Blue Thunder Bomb, that's countered into a tombstone that's countered into the Bastard Driver that Takeshita hits into a wheelbarrow suplex. Okada takes it but scrambles to his feet and hits a dropkick that Takeshita beasts and takes a swing but Okada takes a rear waistlock and hits a discus lariat.
• Okada and Takeshita are jockeying for position on the apron that ends with Okada hitting the Rainmaker from inside the ring to Takeshita on the apron. Takeshita is in a bad way and it's not much better when he gets DDTed firmly on the floor. Okada now wants to piledrive Takeshita on the floor but Don Callis gets up from comms and pleads with him not to; Okada gets in the ring, evidently content with a countout.
• Before Rick Knox gets to six, Takeshita stirs, and Okada decides to yield that position in the ring to go back after him. He picks up Takeshita, but Takeshita quickly takes control and hits a gnarly brainbuster on the floor. Don is livid but Takeshita is matching his energy basically forcing him back into his seat.
• Back in the ring, Takeshita hits the nastiest fucking Helluva Kick I've seen in a long time. He gets a superplex and tries to maintain control for Raging Fire to put this one to bed but Okada slips out and goes for the Rainmaker. Takeshita cuts it off by kicking that right arm, hits a forearm shiver, and for the first time in AEW, hits Okada with a fucking German suplex BALLS STYLE for a near fall. Take tries the Power Drive but Okada counters into the tombstone for a double down.
• Okada gets the better of a meaty strike exchange but Takeshita refuses to be denied, fighting back and eventually trying for a discus lariat. Okada counters into a Rainmaker attempt that Takeshita turns into the Blue Thunder Bomb. Popping back up, he wants the Power Drive again and once more he's caught, this time into a partial Emerald Flowsion. Another Rainmaker attempt is also intercepted by Takeshita, who drops Okada on his head in an inside cradle before floating over for a 2 count.
• Okada backslides Takeshita into a disgusting short-arm lariat. Wrist control is maintained but Takeshita ducks the second and hits the ropes straight into a dropkick. This time Okada's Rainmaker effort is countered by Takeshita just fucking hitting it himself but for the third time, the Power Drive is countered with another dropkick. Takeshita just beasts it and hits the knee from where he's standing anyway. Okada shoves Takeshita off him at 1 but is unable to mount any kind of return offense. He literally braces himself on Takeshita looking up at him so Takeshita winds up and takes his fucking head off with a forearm, hits a Raging Fire that lands Okada on his side, and claims what's his.
• Don briefly enters the ring to congratulate Takeshita before turning his attention to Okada. After Takeshita's done celebrating on the turnbuckles, he turns around to see Don and Okada with MARK DAVIS and ROCKY ROMERO. Don, Mark, and Rocky all have words for Takeshita, so Takeshita squares up to fight when KYLE FLETCHER's music hits. He charges down to the ring and exchanges glances with Takeshita before bowing up to Okada, prompting Don and the others to back off.
• ProtoShita embrace finally in the ring with Kyle taking the championship belt and presenting it to Takeshita, lifting his arm--before wiping him out with a lariat. Takeshita doesn't even have the energy to be outraged, just lying there looking up at him. Don, Okada, and Rocky are all smiles; Davis looks surprised more than anything but makes no effort to intervene. Kyle squats besides Takeshita, smirking as the crowd chants "ASSHOLE" at him, before picking him up by the hair. Takeshita is trying to fight back but has nothing in the tank. Kyle tells Takeshita "you knew this was coming" several times before hitting him with a brainbuster.
• Both Fletcher and Okada go to pick up the International Championship belt; Okada yields to Fletcher as Rocky and Davis pick up Takeshita one more time and hold him in place for Fletcher to hit him with the belt. He and Okada dap up as the Family finally exits, allowing medical to finally get to Takeshita. 
• Athena wipes out the right side of the video barricade with a dropkick to Mina early on here.
• Mina goes for the figure 4 on Athena but she gets sent to the ropes before being caught with a headscissors to ground her. Mina charges back but Athena sweeps the leg and then hits a fucking nasty Super Dragon curbstomp for a 2 count. Athena's been fighting through a lot of knee pain this match after having it heavily targeted by Shirakawa in the early goings.
• Athena tries the O-Face off the second but can't get Mina all the way down. Mina performs a somewhat awkward O'Connor roll for a 2. She hits the ropes, ducks a line, and spikes Athena off a tijeres and applies a modified Seatbelt for another near fall.
• Mina gets the best of a strike exchange with a spinning backfist that wipes out Athena and allows her to apply the figure 4 but Athena's able to reach the bottom rope. She's still in a bad way, though, and hits another backfist before trying for the Glamorous Driver. She can't get it, though, and after briefly jockeying for position, Athena tombstones her before hitting the O-Face to take the win. Athena returns to the semifinal of the Owen, where she's been twice before but has yet to escape.
• Lot of grappling and dick-measuring in the early goings of this Continental title match.
• Kyle's trying to focus heavily on the leg of Moxley to prepare for the ankle lock. He's on a long string offense before he gets Moxley against the ring post and starts throwing martial arts kicks. Moxley sidesteps one, though, and Kyle's left foot meets solid metal.
• When they try to initiate a strike exchange in the ring shortly after and Kyle throws a kick at the back of Moxley's knee he crumbles. Moxley starts working over that left leg and maintains control over the next several minutes.
• Moxley tries for a third Dragon Screw of the match on Kyle but KOR stays on his feet and drops into a juji gatame which he's searched for several times before transitioning into picking the ankle. Mox has no answer for this, but he won't tap out, so Kyle yields the hold and instead just stomps on the left ankle of Moxley before PKing him.
• Mox rolls out and psychs himself up before getting back in where Kyle immediately curbstomps him. Moxley answers with an Ace Crusher for a double down.
• Mox wins a strike exchange and hits the Death Rider into a rear naked choke. He tries to lie down into it but Kyle rolls through and picks the left ankle again. Mox is able to take Kyle's left ankle during this. Kyle yields the hold to get a 2 count on the supine Moxley but Mox gets the left shoulder up without surrendering his grip. There's nowhere for Kyle to go; Mox can't be dragged and they're in the center of the ring. Kyle gives up.
• The Death Riders come out to celebrate with Moxley; in the opposite corner, The Conglomeration come out to check on Kyle. Both men get to their feet and Moxley exchanges some words with Kyle before the two shake hands 
• Ospreay hot starts on Joe with an OsCutter and we're off to the races.
• Ospreay hits a house show to the floor and a springboard 450 in the ring for a 2 count before trying to get the juji gatame locked in. Joe won't let him get to full extension and forces a rope break. Will wants a Hidden Blade but Joe rolls to the floor so Ospreay tries the Sasuke Special but comes up short and Joe grabs the Coquina Clutch. Ospreay forces Joe back into the barricade twice so Joe relinquishes the hold and just chucks Will into the board.
• Joe's getting a lot of heat over the next few minutes but gets cut off when Will gets his knees up on an attempted big boy senton. Will's focusing on the left arm of Joe including a double stomp to it off the second while Joe's using it to brace himself on the ropes. Ospreay gets a 2 off a back handspring corkscrew kick. He tries for another OsCutter but Joe nopes out of the way before turning around video game style and hitting the big boy senton for a 2.
• Joe hits a powerbomb for a 2 and maintains control into a Boston Crab the long way. He transitions into an STF before yielding the leg hook and wrenching Ospreay's right arm back. Will gets his foot on the rope. He eats a series of PKs, firing up after each one into a strike exchange that Joe gets the better of.
• Joe wants a short-arm lariat but Ospreay floats all the way over and somehow hits the Styles Clash for a 2. A Hidden Blade also gets a near fall, and Ospreay takes down the elbow pad for a second one. Joe catches him into a snap powerslam for a double down.
• Joe sends Ospreay off the ropes who goes around for an attempted La Mística but can't get the arm. Instead he goes back into the flying armbar but can't get Joe's arm extended. Joe stacks Ospreay for a 2 and then takes the Coquina Clutch. Will's able to get to his feet and flips back into a pin for his own 2-count. Ospreay gets a thrust kick and tries to charge Joe in the corner but gets countered with the STJoe.
• Joe now gets the Coquina Clutch again and has it for the next 40 seconds as Ospreay fades. Bryce Remsburg does a 3-count arm raise, and on the third, Will grabs the rope to force a break. Joe wants the Muscle Buster but he's got Ospreay too far back and Will springs out and hits a nasty Hidden Blade off the ropes for a one count, gets up, and wipes him out with another Hidden Blade to the back of the neck to take the win. Joe bows to Ospreay as he leaves the ring.
• Swerve and Bandido start fast; Bandido's got a lot of kinesio tape on his shoulder and neck.
• Bandido's got control for the first several minutes of this match until he tries a spear in the corner and Swerve sidesteps. Thus begins the heat.
• Bandido pops up Swerve but he lands standing on the shoulders of Bandido and kicks him in the back of the head before hitting the Swerve Stomp off the top for a 2.9. Bandido responds by hitting a Poisonrana off the apron to the floor because he's a psychopath lol
• Bandido hits a grounded 21 Plex that realistically should have put Strickland away, but he's unable to keep the bridge because of the pressure on his injured shoulder and neck and loses the pin at 1. They trade sunset flips and Bandido tries to hit a Code Red; Swerve hangs on and pops him up for a powerbomb but Bandido instead spikes Strickland on the top of his head with a Hurricanrana.
• Bandido has Swerve up for the traditional 21 Plex but can't get enough momentum to rebound and Swerve takes the Vertebreaker hold, drops Bandido on his shit, hits the House Call, and walks away the winner. It's a frustrating high-profile, albeit non-title, loss for the ROH champion.
•  The women's 4-way starts with everyone ganging up on Thekla before pairing off.
• Shida and Statlander are, at least temporarily on the same page early on, working as a unit against Jamie Hayter before she cuts them off. They end up getting both Hayter and Thekla in the corner and Stat charges in and body presses them with Shida narrowly getting out of the way. That leads to them exchanging words briefly, allowing Hayter to glom Shida from behind and send her into Statlander.
• Hayter and Stat both catch Thekla out of a crossbody, and they effective fallaway slam her when Shida wipes all three of them out with a missile dropkick. Shida tries for covers on Thekla and Hayter, each for a 1 count, before Statlander immediately throws her off and has some words for her as Shida begs off. Both Stat and Shida get schoolboyed for two counts.
• Statlander and Shida are back on a united front for the time being, with Kris calling for Shida to move before lining Hayter over the top rope and Shida hammer throwing Kris for an attempted tope onto Hayter. Statlander gets cut off by a boot on the apron from Thekla, then Shida just kicks Thekla in the back of the leg and she dies.
• Every time Statlander and Hayter meet in the ring this match neither can get the better of the other.
• Thekla does her spider taunt to Shida, preparing for a spear, so Statlander just picks her up into Staturday Night Fever position. Thekla slips out and shoves her into Hayter, who catches her into an exploder suplex, before booting Thekla in the jaw. Kris fights Jamie into the ropes and tries to whip her into a leaping knee from Shida, but Hayter reverses and Statlander gets wiped out instead.
• Thekla has Hayter in an octopus stretch that Hayter escapes with a backbreaker before hitting Hayterade. Shida breaks it up with a knee on Hayter at 2.
• Shida hits the Falcon Arrow on Hayter and rolls her into the most fucked-up looking ankle lock of all time and Statlander walks up and just grabs Shida by the throat and stands her up. Shida's begging off as Stat says "you're gonna do this to me?" She eventually releases the grip as Shida continues to apologize before just very lightly slapping her in the face and the brawl is on.
• Stat and Shida brawl on the floor until Shida gets thrown into the stairs. Stat turns her attention to Hayter, who she lays out with a pump kick, before getting back in the ring. Thekla tries for a spear but Statlander leapfrogs her, hits a couple thrust kicks, and puts Thekla down with Staturday Night Fever. That pin gets broken at 2 when Shida hits Statlander across the back with a kendo stick.
• Both Thekla and Statlander are laid out and it's not clear who Shida is targeting when she swings the kendo stick back again, but Hayter grabs the stick from the apron and pulls Shida over the top to the floor. A still-rising Statlander is completely vulnerable when Thekla hits her with the curbstomp to pick up the win and retain the title. 
• There are several beach balls in the crowd throughout the Stadium Stampede.
• The Hurt Syndicate and GOA fight into the backstage hallways. Bobby tries to get the Hurt Lock on Toa but he fights out and headbutts him onto the ground. The camera pans over to LIO RUSH being a freak. He says "he"'s got it from here so Toa grabs Lio's lat and Lio just bites the fuck out of Toa's hand. Bobby beats Toa back as Lio jumps onto Toa's back.
• The Bucks brawl with the Dogs over to the merchandise stand where Matt hits David with a replica title and they both superkick Clark onto an escalator going upwards. A camera operator follows him all the way up.
• Back in the arena, Andrade is trying to take a selfie with a couple women when a tall figure with long blonde hair comes up behind him from the crowd. Turns out it's LUCHASAURUS in a wig. Luchasaurus starts chewing in Andrade's general direction and then yells at him which prompts Andrade to throw the phone at him. He does not know what to do with this phone so instead he just spits chewed onion into Andrade's face.
• Jack Perry and Mark Davis are now in catering. Perry fist bumps TOMMY INVINCIBLE who is just here for some reason. Davis bumps Perry and Tommy says leave him alone because we are invincible and Davis just decks him. Perry drop toe holds Davis into an upturned chair.
• The feed dies for like 15 seconds and when it comes back we see Andrade and Kenny standing off. Andrade charges Kenny who sidesteps him and he runs into the back of someone who is apparently eating an entire cake by himself. He stands up and turns around to reveal that he is SATNAM SINGH. Andrade slowly realizes this and says "holy shit... oh fuck... sorry boss." Satnam screams "FOOD FIGHT" as Andrade runs away and throws a jobber into Satnam so he just gorilla presses him and throws him into a table. All hell has broken loose in catering as Tony Schiavone mourns their "post-game meal." Luchasaurus is also back here.
• Toa Liona picks up an entire shopping cart over his head and hits Matt Jackson with it.
• We now go backstage into Generic Tennis Training Room where Ricochet and Jericho are fighting. Jericho knocks Ricochet down and opens a door to reveal LUTHER, the butler of Toni Storm, who presents to Jericho an enormous tennis racket. Jericho hits Ricochet with a few times before turning on a tennis ball shooter and throwing him into a loading bay door. Apparently the Stadium Stampede is falls count anywhere and Aubrey gives him a two count.
• Mark Davis with a bandage around his head is now in the back of the parking lot outside. He stumbles towards a golf cart and notices that a note has been stabbed into the back cushion with a knife. Picking it up, he reads "WAIT HERE ASSHOLE." The camera pans to reveal the Jurassic Express, which promptly crashes into and obliterates the golf cart. Jack Perry exits the bus, looks into the wreckage and shrugs annoyed as he turns around to go back into the arena.
• Apparently Mark Davis was not in that wreckage as back at ringside Bobby promptly spears him through a table leaning against the barricade. Kenny hits Andrade with a One Winged Angel off the apron through a table.
• Everyone runs a train on Ricochet before Bishop Kaun shoves him out of the way to take the bullet for him. Jericho pins him off the Lionsault. 
• Darby immediately gets three two-counts in a row off side headlock takeovers on MJF before dropkicking him through the ropes to the floor. He goes for a tope suicida but Max shoves him out of the way and he lands COMPLETELY on his neck in one of the most horrifying bumps of this entire reign. Max spends a lot of this match focusing on that spot on the upper back.
• Max tries for a tombstone piledriver off the second but Darby switches control and gets a Stundog Millionaire out of it. He tries for a Coffin Drop but Max powders to the floor so instead he drills him on a bottom rope tope suicida that sends MJF tumbling over the announce desk.
• Darby's got Max's supine with his head positioned on the apron. He tries for a Coffin Drop guillotine-style off the ring post but MJF moves and Darby eats the apron. Max proceeds to hit a package piledriver on the side of the upturned ring stairs.
• Max wants the side headlock takeover himself but Darby throws him to the ropes. Referee Bryce Remsburg has to duck out of the way which gives Allin enough time to low blow Friedman and get a 2.9 off his own fourth side headlock takeover. Max double stomps Darby's extended arm off the second. His own lower back is in bad shape and Darby puts him in the Scorpion Death Lock. Max is able to get to the ropes to force a break so Darby scrambles up for the Coffin Drop but Max gets the knees up to generate a 2-count.
• MJF tries the Heatseeker for the second time, Darby shoves him away so he tries the forced slingshot cutter a second time but Darby lands on his feet into the Scorpion Death Drop. He wants the Coffin Drop but Max has rolled away so he jumps down and charges and Max takes over with the side headlock for a late 1 count. Darby takes his own for a 2 and Max rolls him over into a crucifix. They trade pins obsessively for a minute before Darby tries the Code Red. Max tries to counter into the Alabama Slam, Darby lands on his feet and is promptly met with a cross chop to the throat from Max who gets him up for a powerbomb. Darby pops out and hits the Code Red for a 2.
• Max charges Darby screaming "FUCK YOU!!!" and Darby takes over with the setup for Last Supper into a jackknife pin that gets him a near fall. MJF powders so Darby tries another tope; Max responds by grabbing the camera operator nearest the ring and pulling him into the path of Darby, who crashes and burns.
• Max fireman carries Darby over to the stage, where a barbershop setup has been erected with a chair, which he sets Darby down into before taking the electric razor from the table. Darby boots it out of his hand and applies a front guillotine with a body lock, sufficiently choking him out on the stage. Darby sees his chance. He picks up MJF and puts him on the table before looking up at the scaffolding supporting the screen above the entrance. Allin climbs all the way up what Tony Schiavone estimates to be about 20 feet, does Cactus Jack's taunt, and hits the Coffin Drop onto MJF through the table.
• The back of Darby's head is IMMEDIATELY opened up. Max is dead but the back of Allin's hair has been stained red with his own blood. This one is a gusher, and it's making it that much harder for Darby to stay on his feet as he tries to drag MJF back to the ring. Darby hits the Coffin Drop in the ring but only gets about a 2.7 or so.
• Darby gets the Scorpion Death Lock back in but his body gives out on him as he collapses out of it. The look on Max's face reflects what he knows--Darby's tank is empty. He stands up and throws Bryce out of the way, standing Darby up and applying a side headlock. Max screams "HEADLOCK" before Darby suddenly springs to life, taking over and hitting the Death Drop for the second time. Both men are supine for about 10 seconds before Darby kips up, going over and climbing up for the Coffin Drop but MJF lunges to the rope and crotches Darby. Max proceeds to hit a DISGUSTING tombstone off the second rope and that's enough to put Darby away once and for all. Bryce Remsburg is disgusted but hands MJF the belt anyway.
• Darby is rolled out of the ring onto a stretcher. Once the medical team straps him in, MJF gets up and kicks them out of the way, screaming "THIS IS MY MOMENT!" and posing with one foot on the stretcher holding up the title. Suddenly, he powders, as KEVIN KNIGHT sprints to the ring to chase him off. "Get your ass back here! You hear me? You hear me?" he yells at MJF, perching on the ropes with one foot on the middle and one on top.
• The EMTs have rolled Darby back towards the stage end of ringside. Suddenly, Kevin gets up and HITS THE UFO SPLASH ON DARBY before UPENDING THE STRETCHER WITH HIM STILL STRAPPED ONTO IT. He looks introspective for a moment, almost like he's reflecting on what he just did, before a slight smile appears on his face. MJF at the entranceway can't believe what he just saw but he's happy he saw it. The show fades to black zoomed in on the face of Kevin Knight breathing heavily, stone-faced staring at Darby.

STILL TO COME

Dynamite/Collision, 27 May

• We'll hear from: AEW Men's World Champion MJF, TNT Champion KEVIN KNIGHT, AEW Men's World Tag Team Champions CAGE & COPE, DON CALLIS & KYLE FLETCHER 
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: AEW National Champion MARK DAVIS vs. JUNGLE JACK PERRY
• Winner faces Will Ospreay in semifinal
• Everyone Banned from Ringside: JERICHO vs. RICOCHET 
• Lights Out Philly Street Fight: KRIS STATLANDER vs. HIKARU SHIDA