Darby Allin makes AEW title defense before Double or Nothing, Willow Nightingale surrenders title and more

Darby Allin made 1 last AEW World Championship defence connected Wednesday’s treble occurrence of "Dynamite" and "Collision" against "Speedball" Mike Bailey and did truthful successful beforehand of his Double oregon Nothing challenger, Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF).

Allin had been connected an unthinkable tally of rubric defenses since capturing the title implicit MJF astir a period ago. In the pb up to a rubric vs. hairsbreadth lucifer against MJF, Allin proved again wherefore helium was 1 of the champion successful pro wrestling.

Bailey missed a high-flying aerial maneuver allowing Allin to deed a Coffin Drop. But MJF interfered, putting Bailey’s ft connected the enactment to interruption the count. Bailey astir got a 3 number connected Allin aft a kick, but Allin would yet survive.

Darby Allin competes successful the ringing during AEW Collision connected Oct. 3, 2024, astatine the Huntington Center successful Toledo, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

Allin enactment Bailey into aggregate Scorpion Death Locks, and forced Bailey to pat out. Still the champion, Allin and MJF volition quadrate disconnected astatine Double oregon Nothing. If Allin retains, MJF volition person to shave his head.

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Willow Nightingale reveals injury, relinquishes TBS Championship

Willow Nightingale and Momo Watanabe vie during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Wrestle Dynasty lawsuit astatine Tokyo Dome successful Tokyo, Japan, connected Jan. 5, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

Unfortunately, Willow Nightingale’s ascendant reign arsenic TBS champion came to an abrupt extremity connected Wednesday night. She announced during "Dynamite."

"Winning this title was 1 of the top moments of my vocation and I haven’t had a shortage of large moments successful my clip astatine AEW. I’ve won the Owen before, I’ve won the TBS rubric earlier this reign," she said successful a backstage segment. "And I became fractional of the precise archetypal AEW women’s tag squad champions But winning this backmost from Mercedes (Moné), I knew that if I could bash that, I could beryllium to myself, I could beryllium to the satellite that I americium everything I believed I could beryllium which is wherefore I told myself I would combat time in, time retired to immoderate challenger that steps up and if I couldn’t bash that, past I didn’t merit to beryllium the TBS champion.

"As destiny would person it, successful my astir caller rubric defence against Red Velvet, I injured my close enarthrosis and I privation truthful bad, I privation truthful atrocious to wrestle astatine Double oregon Nothing successful beforehand of my family, astatine location successful New York, against Alex Windsor. I privation to spell connected successful the Owen and spell to All In and go the AEW satellite champ. But unfortunately, I person to retreat from the Owen Hart Cup. Furthermore, I indispensable relinquish the TBS Championship."

Nightingale said she was "overjoyed" to the look of TBS implicit the people of her 10 rubric defenses and vowed to beryllium back, though it was unclear when.

Mina Shirakawa volition present instrumentality connected Athena successful the archetypal circular of the Owen astatine Double oregon Nothing. Windsor volition person a wild-card hostile successful the tournament.

Will Ospreay makes connection earlier Double oregon Nothing

Will Ospreay appeared connected the "Collision" information of Wednesday night’s special, taking connected Katsuyori Shibata – a subordinate of The Opps. It was a tune-up lucifer earlier Ospreay takes connected chap Opps subordinate Samoa Joe successful the archetypal circular of the Owen Hart Foundation Men’s Tournament.

Ospreay has been much unsafe since helium trained with The Death Riders successful caller weeks, showing his tenacity past week against Ace Austin. It was overmuch of the aforesaid against Shibata. His aerial stylings and hard hits proved to beryllium excessively overmuch for Shibata successful the end. He deed Shibata with a Styles Clash and a Hidden Blade, pinning Shibata for the win.

Joe addressed Ospreay aft the match, saying helium was going to "put your a--  to sleep."

Ospreay responded, detailing his ain "nightmare" concern successful which helium comes to grips with immoderate of his doubters. He said that helium received messages for years astir however Joe was going to "kill" him and wondered however that would beryllium imaginable if he’s "already died successful this precise ring."

"This year, the stakes are precocious due to the fact that the victor of the Owen Hart Cup goes connected to look whoever the satellite champion is astatine the biggest stadium my state has. A stadium that each kid successful my schoolhouse wanted to beryllium successful and I person a accidental to fulfill my country’s imagination and I person a accidental to fulfill my imagination due to the fact that it’s not conscionable the institution connected my back, I got a full flipping state connected my back.

"My nightmare, Joe, my nightmare died and it was successful the hands of these men (The Death Riders) and Marina (Shafir). They killed the aged maine and they rebuilt me. They rebuilt maine into a murderer, into a killer, into what I’ve been this full time."

He said Sunday astatine Double oregon Nothing started his roadworthy to winning the AEW World Championship.

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Swerve Strickland, Bandido brawl earlier Double oregon Nothing match

Referee Aubrey Edwards raises the manus of Swerve Strickland aft helium defeated Shelton Benjamin during AEW Dynamite astatine the Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected Oct. 30, 2024. Prince Nana celebrates nearby. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

For weeks, Swerve Strickland had made it wide that helium was going aft Ring of Honor champion Bandido. The 2 were acceptable to quadrate disconnected successful the archetypal circular of the Owen Hart Foundation Men’s Tournament astatine the upcoming Double oregon Nothing pay-per-view but they decided to springiness fans a preview of what’s to come.

Strickland was going to code the assemblage successful Portland, Maine, erstwhile Bandido blindsided Strickland. The 2 brawled for respective minutes arsenic Strickland was trying to deed a Vertebreaker connected a char that helium acceptable up successful the mediate of the ring. Bandido countered and deed a subject property slam connected Strickland.

As Bandido was going for a knockout stroke with the chair, Strickland rolled retired of the ring.

New matches added to Double oregon Nothing

Jon Moxley volition support the Continental Championship against Kyle O’Reilly aft their eliminator lucifer went the distance.

Viva Van and Zaya Steel volition beryllium a portion of a women’s tag squad eliminator lucifer against champions Megan Bayne and Lena Kross. The lucifer volition instrumentality spot during the Buy In hr earlier the pay-per-view officially kicks off.

"Dynamite" lucifer results:

Andrade El Idolo, Mark Davis and Ricochet def. Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Chris Jericho.

Mark Briscoe def. Tommaso Ciampa successful a nary rules match.

Jon Moxley and Kyle O’Reilly spell the region successful a Continental Championship eliminator match.

Thekla, Julia Hart, Skye Blue and Athena def. Thunder Rosa, Jamie Hayter, Alex Windsor and Mina Shirakawa.

Darby Allin def. "Speedball" Mike Bailey to clasp the AEW World Championship.

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"Collision" lucifer results

Will Ospreay def. Katsuyori Shibata.

Rush def. TJ Crawford.

Megan Bayne and Lena Kross def. Kayla Loprez and Elle Valentine successful an AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship eliminator match.

Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler def. Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong successful an AEW World Tag Team Championship eliminator match.