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Darby Allin is the jack of all trades in All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
He won the TNT Championship twice, won tag team gold with Sting, climbed Mount Everest and shocked the pro wrestling world last month when he defeated Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) to win the AEW World Championship for the first time.
Allin will put the championship on the line on Sunday when he faces MJF in a title match at Double or Nothing. If Allin loses, MJF will win back the belt for the third time in his career. If MJF suffers defeat, he will be forced to shave his head.
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Darby Allin arrives at Sports Illustrated’s SI The Party at Cow Palace Arena and Event Center in Daly City, California on February 8, 2026. (Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)
It’s that kind of bravery that Allin has brought with him to AEW since he started the company in 2019.
“It’s the determination to live life to the fullest,” Allin told Pak Gazette Digital when asked where bravery comes from. “I have such a lust for life and I feel like the crazier I get, the more mental barriers and the more confidence I have. That’s where it comes from. It’s just determination and lust for life.
“I feel like I’ve lived a hundred lives in my life. I’ve done a lot and a lot of it comes from not being afraid. I have no regrets. I’ve made the most of life. I could die tomorrow and be totally at peace.”
Allin is bringing that mentality to New York City. Since winning the AEW World Championship, he has been on tears knocking down any challenger that has approached him trying to knock him off his pedestal.
While he has certainly proven himself worthy of holding the title, he said there is still more to do.
“There is always something to prove,” he said. “The most important thing I have to prove this Sunday is that the Max game in Seattle wasn’t a fluke win. This Sunday at Double or Nothing, that’s the most important thing I need to prove right now: that it wasn’t a fluke win.”
AEW Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman appears during AEW Dynamite at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona on February 22, 2023. (Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)
Allin is confident he can beat MJF (in his home state) and take home a lock of hair too.
“Make a voodoo doll and torture it for the rest of its life,” he said.
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Double or Nothing will take place at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens and promises to be a card full of hard-hitting action.
The card looks like this:
Thekla enters the ring during the Stardom women’s wrestling event at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on March 8, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)
- Megan Bayne and Lena Kross vs. Zayda Steel and Vita Van in a 5-minute Tag Team Title Elimination Match.
- “Big Boom” AJ, QT Marshall, Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong vs. Shane Taylor, Anthony Ogogo, Captain Shawn Dean, Carlie Bravo and Lee Moriarty in a 10-man tag team match.
- Claudio Castagnoli, Daniel García, Wheeler Yuta vs. Anthony Bowens, Hook and Katsuyori Shibata in a trio match.
- Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the AEW International Championship.
- Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler (c) against Adam Copeland and Christian Cage in an I Quit Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship. If Cope and Cage lose, they will have to retire as a team.
- Chris Jericho, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, Kenny Omega, Jack Perry, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson against Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, Toa Liona, Mark Davis, Andrade El Idolo, Clark Connors and David Finlay in a Stadium Stampede Match.
- Thekla (c) vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Kris Statlander for the AEW Women’s World Championship.
- Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay in a quarterfinal match of the Owen Hart men’s tournament.
- Bandido against Swerve Strickland in a quarterfinal match of the Owen Hart men’s tournament.
- Athena vs. Mina Shirakawa in a quarterfinal match of the Owen Hart Women’s Tournament.
- Jon Moxley (c) against Kyle O’Reilly for the AEW Continental Championship.
Allin said pro wrestling fans who have never seen an AEW show before are in luck.
Darby Allin competes in the ring during AEW Collision on October 3, 2024 at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Sportswire Icon)
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“The unpredictability of what AEW is,” Allin told Pak Gazette Digital when asked what first-time viewers could expect from AEW. “You can watch it any Wednesday, you can watch it any Saturday, the PPVs, whatever night it is, it will be unpredictable and totally out of the ordinary.
“That’s how I love it. That’s how I love to live my life and that’s how I love to do my wrestling. Yeah, just completely crazy. That’s what you can expect.”
