All Elite Wrestling’s Double or Nothing event to return to Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — In May, one of professional wrestling’s biggest events and a southern Nevada mainstay will return to the Las Vegas Strip.

All Elite Wrestling’s tentpole event, Double or Nothing, will take place once again in the entertainment capital of the world five years after the company’s inaugural pay-per-view was hosted in Las Vegas. In what has become an annual tradition starting in 2019, and only relocating in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Double or Nothing will be hosted at the MGM Grand Garden arena on Sunday, May 26.

In 2023, that year’s edition saw a wild main event between the Blackpool Combat Club and The Elite in an Anarchy in the Arena match. The BCC’s Claudio Castagnoli spoke with 8newsnow.com about the match, saying that the concourse at T-Mobile Arena was the most unique location he had ever performed his finishing maneuver, the giant swing.

“I gave him a piledriver on a pickup truck with the Luxor in the background,” Castagnoli said of another memorable moment from the event.

Another performer who has good luck in Las Vegas is “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy, who retained his AEW International Championship at 2023’s Double or Nothing in a 21-man Blackjack Battle Royal.

“For some reason, I do very, very well in Vegas, and my odds are very, very good,” Cassidy said, adding that taking on 20 other wrestlers at once was probably a bad idea.

Darby Allin, the man who teamed with the legendary Sting for his final match against the Young Bucks in early March, took part in a World Championship four-way in Las Vegas for last year’s Double or Nothing in a losing effort. However, he made it clear to 8newsnow.com in February that Allin plans to be an integral part of AEW for the foreseeable future.

“I want to be the face of this company, and to be the face of this company, you got to be world champion,” Allin said.

In addition to Double or Nothing, AEW Collision will also take the stage at the Grand Garden Arena the day before the pay-per-view event on May 25.

Tickets for the event will go on sale on March 30 and are available on AEWtix.com and AXS.com.

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