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AEW’s Double or Nothing 2026 sold out the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens Sunday night, with MJF beating Darby Allin in a Title vs. Hair main event.
AEW‘s eighth annual Double or Nothing drew a near-capacity crowd to Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens on Sunday, May 24, with the promotion landing its strongest ticket count of the year at the first wrestling event the venue has ever hosted.
Pre-event tracking had AEW at roughly 13,848 tickets sold against a maximum capacity of about 14,053. AOL’s pre-show ticket-sales update, citing Wrestling Observer reporter Dave Meltzer’s count, projected the building to fill before bell time, with secondary-market prices climbing to a $73 floor.
The building filled. RingsideNews’s comparison of 2025 PPV attendance figures across AEW’s marquee events showed last year’s Phoenix Double or Nothing drew 8,200 paid tickets, well below the Queens turnout.
The main event was the centerpiece. MJF defeated Darby Allin in a Title vs. Hair match to win the AEW World Championship, the closing match of an event that ran twelve total bouts including three on the Buy In pre-show.
The opener was the night’s most loaded high-stakes match. Cage and Cope, the tag team of Christian Cage and Adam Copeland, defeated FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a New York Street Fight I Quit stipulation. The team had agreed to disband forever if they lost.
Wikipedia’s running record of the full Double or Nothing 2026 card and match outcomes captures the other major results: Konosuke Takeshita defeated Kazuchika Okada for the AEW International Championship, and the annual Stadium Stampede match closed with Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate, and The Elite defeating The Demand, The Don Callis Family, and The Dogs.
The night also produced two notable returns. Kyle Fletcher returned from a March injury, and WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley made his on-screen AEW PPV debut after signing with the promotion a few days earlier.
The venue selection was novel. Louis Armstrong Stadium, opened in 2018 and located inside the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens, had never hosted a wrestling event before Sunday. AEW had previously run Grand Slam editions of Dynamite at the larger Arthur Ashe Stadium, which is closed for renovations until summer 2027.
The Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments also kicked off at the show, with first-round matches for both the men’s and women’s brackets. The men’s side opened with Will Ospreay against Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland against Bandido; the women’s side opened with Willow Nightingale against Alex Windsor.
Women’s World Champion Thekla retained against Jamie Hayter, Hikaru Shida, and Kris Statlander in a four-way match.
The NYC metro Double or Nothing was AEW’s first in the area. The company’s previous New York-state pay-per-views were Worlds End 2023 and Forbidden Door 2024.
The show streamed live on HBO Max for U.S. subscribers and on Prime Video, Triller TV, PPV.com, and YouTube. Buy figures have not yet been released.
