MJF wins third AEW World Championship

Maxwell Jacob Friedman left AEW Double or Nothing on May 24 with the company’s top title again, ending Darby Allin’s reign and starting his third run as AEW world champion. AEW’s championship history page had listed Allin as champion since April 15, when he beat MJF on “Dynamite: Spring BreakThru.” Yahoo Sports’ post-show coverage said MJF regained the belt in the main event in Queens, New York, at Louis Armstrong Stadium. The result closed a short title swing at the top of AEW’s card. AEW’s official records show MJF previously held the championship from November 19, 2022, to December 30, 2023, and again from December 27, 2025, to April 15, 2026. Darby Allin’s reign began when he beat MJF in Everett, Washington, and it ended just 39-plus days later, according to AEW’s title history page. (allelitewrestling.com) ### How did MJF get back to the title so quickly? Darby Allin had been defending the championship repeatedly in the weeks after his April 15 win. AEW’s official results page shows title defenses for Allin on April 22, April 29, May 6 and May 9, while AEW’s site also promoted his May 20 defense against “Speedball” Mike Bailey before Double or Nothing. Sports Illustrated’s live coverage said Allin had defended the title seven times in roughly a month across “Dynamite” and “Collision” before the pay-per-view main event. (allelitewrestling.com) That schedule set up a rematch with MJF at Double or Nothing, where the former champion tried to win the belt back one month after losing it. ### What is verified about the finish? (allelitewrestling.com) Yahoo Sports’ event coverage verified the core result: MJF defeated Darby Allin for the AEW world title and began his third reign. The user-provided briefing and social coverage also said the finish was credited as an Avalanche Tombstone Piledriver, but I could not independently confirm that move description from an official AEW results post available in search results at the time of writing. (si.com) AEW had not surfaced a full Double or Nothing results page in the search results I reviewed, though the company’s official site carried the event preview and its rolling results archive. Because of that, the match winner and title change are verified, while the exact finishing move attribution remains based on secondary and social reporting rather than the official event recap now visible in search. (sports.yahoo.com) ### Why does the “third reign” matter in AEW’s records? AEW’s championship history page makes the count straightforward. MJF first won the title in November 2022, regained it in December 2025, and now has a third reign after Double or Nothing. That places him among the small group of multiple-time AEW world champions tracked on the company’s official lineage page. (allelitewrestling.com) Jon Moxley is listed by AEW as the first four-time champion, while Samoa Joe, Adam Page and MJF are among the wrestlers with multiple reigns on the same record page. In that context, MJF’s latest win adds another entry to a title history that AEW presents as one of its central continuity markers. ### What else happened around the main event? (allelitewrestling.com) Yahoo Sports’ post-show report said Kevin Knight turned on Darby Allin after the match. The same coverage also noted Mick Foley’s appearance on the Buy In pre-show before the main event, part of the build around the MJF-Allin program. AEW’s preview page billed Double or Nothing as the first edition of the event at Louis Armstrong Stadium and said the pay-per-view began at 8 p.m. (allelitewrestling.com) Eastern on May 24. That gave the title change a new venue for one of AEW’s annual marquee shows. ### Where does the story move next? AEW’s official results archive is the next place to watch for the company’s full Double or Nothing recap and any follow-up booking tied to MJF, Darby Allin and Kevin Knight. (sports.yahoo.com) AEW’s website was already carrying the event preview and weekly results pages as of May 25. The next concrete update should come through AEW’s post-show results coverage and its upcoming “Dynamite” and “Collision” programming, where the company typically formalizes the fallout from pay-per-view title changes. (allelitewrestling.com 1) (allelitewrestling.com 2)