AEW Double Or Nothing news: MJF becomes three-time World Champion, Cope and Cage win tag titles, and more

On Sunday night, AEW presented one of its biggest shows of the year, Double Or Nothing from Louis Armstrong Stadium.

MJF became a three-time AEW World Champion, and Adam Copeland and Christian Cage became tag team champions, with Stadium Stampede making a return, too. 

A night which had highly anticipated matches throughout the card, Sports News Blitz writer Mosaddek Abu discusses the takeaways from an exciting night in Queens, New York. 

Cope and Cage are poised for one last run

Adam Copeland and Christian Cage defeated their bitter rivals, FTR, to win tag team gold. 

Cope mentioned when he first came to AEW that one of his goals was to reunite with Christian Cage, and after a career-highlight win for the legendary tag team, they will have one final run together, providing excitement on the road to All In London.

They'll likely carry the titles into Wembley Stadium too, but there is excitement with Cope and Cage, especially with a promotion that is the place for pure tag team wrestling. 

The eight-time tag team champions are in the final runs of their legendary careers and want to finish it together, given that's how they started three decades ago. 

It's an exciting time in the AEW tag team division, as C&C will provide plenty of exciting options and matches as the months build up to All In.

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Kyle Fletcher, return and betrayal, possible three-way rivalry

After being sidelined with a neck injury, "the prototype Kyle Fletcher made his return at Double Or Nothing after Konnosuke Takeshita defeated Kazuchia Okada in a hellacious battle, winning the AEW International Championship. 

Takeshita was the better man on the night and stood tall on the biggest stage possible, defeating Okada, one of the great big-match wrestlers. 

He thought he'd be celebrating with the returning Fletcher, and for a moment they did, until Fletcher unleashed an assault on his longtime friend. 

The former TNT champion has remained allied with Don Callis and the rest of the Callis family, but he hasn't always seen eye to eye with Okada. 

Over the last year, the two have had some tense moments. 

Whilst Fletcher and Takeshita will likely battle it out at Forbidden Door, the rainmaker is still a factor in this story, especially given that he doesn't play teamaker with Fletcher; this opens the door to a potential triple threat match at Wembley Stadium. 

This story is going to continue over the next few months on AEW TV, exploring the rivalry between the former longtime friends first, whilst also playing the tension between Fletcher and Okada in the background. 

Stadium Stampede bring beautiful carnage

Stadium Stampede made a return for the first time since 2021, and it was an amazing amount of carnage. 

Having had a series of title matches and a couple of matches from the Owen Hart tournament, Stadium Stampede provided a break from those series of matches and gave fans a wild ride, insanity, chaos and laughter. 

With wrestling shows, there needs to be variety that gives fans a break from the main storylines and featured matches and leads into some multi-man fun, which is exactly what Stadium Stampede provided.

Two teams of seven, just all 14 men going at it, with crazy table spots and insane moments such as Jack Perry crashing a school bus into a car Mark Davis was in. 

Had new weapons introduced to pro wrestling, such as tennis rackets, tennis balls and even shopping trollies. 

We even had food fights and special cameos, along with comedy; it was pure insanity and fun, which makes it all the more special.

Beautiful carnage and the perfect mix of serious wrestling and pure chaos add nice variety to a wrestling show and make the fan experience more memorable, because they'll talk about matches like Stadium Stampede. 

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Owen Hart's tournament men's bracket is too predictable

The Owen Hart Foundation tournament was underway at Double or Nothing this past weekend, with two matches in the men's bracket. 

Will Ospreay and Samoa Joe faced each other in an excellent match, and the ariel assassin advanced into the next round, defeating Joe. 

Meanwhile, Swerve Strickland faced Bandido, with Strickland winning his match and advancing to the next round. 

The finals of the tournament will take place at Forbidden Door on June 28th, but it feels like the winner is predictable. 

Now the other two matches remaining in the first round are Jungle Jack Perry vs Mark Davis and Claudio Castagnoli vs Brody King. 

But it seems set up for an Ospreay-Strickland final, with Ospreay likely to come out on top, given that the winner gets a match for the AEW World Championship at All In London, at Wembley Stadium. 

It feels like a forgone conclusion that it'll be the commonwealth kingpin. 

If AEW wants to go in that direction, it'll be an electric atmosphere at the "cathedral of football," but at what expense to the Owen Hart tournament and to keep fans speculating? 

With a wrestling tournament, and you look at the bracket, you'd want to guess a few different names that you think are going to win it, create theories and possible scenarios, but nothing about this year's bracket screams suspense.

 Instead, it feels like we're just waiting to see the final and the eventual victory for Ospreay. 

MJF becoming a three-time world champion was the right move

On Sunday night, Maxwell Jacob Friedman became a three-time world champion, defeating Darby Allin in a rematch for the AEW World Championship.

It was hair vs title, and "the salt of the earth" managed to retain his hair whilst also becoming World Champion again; it was the logical move in this story. 

Ever since Allin won the title on April 15, he had been defending the title every week against different opponents and risking his body with every title defence. 

The story coming into the match was whether Allin could pull through and not let his body fail him in his defence against MJF. 

But because of the wear and tear on the bodies, which was told throughout this story and it gave up on him, as his body reached a breaking point, with his rival MJF capitalising with a super tombstone piledriver and successfully winning back his title. 

From a story perspective, it made sense as Allin’s body couldn’t make it through an eight defence and thus collapsed on him, with MJF able to strike on a wounded champion and take victory in New York. 

The right move, as it allowed for another chapter in this long-running rivalry, with another match in the future, and it restrains the main event picture with "the devil" right back at the helm. 

Plus with Ospreay the favourite to win the Owen Hart cup and get a title shot at Wembley, it makes sense for it to be AEW’s biggest superstar and the biggest heel in wrestling, MJF.

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