AEW on pay-per-view is making its New York City debut.<\/p>\n
Tony Khan\u2019s company is bringing one of its tent-pole events, Double or Nothing, to 14,000-plus-seat Louis Armstrong Stadium on May 24, The Post has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This will be the fifth time AEW has run a show from the Billie Jean King National\u00a0 Tennis Center, after hosting Dynamite: Grand Slam from Arthur Ashe Stadium from 2021-24.\u00a0<\/p>\n
AEW will host Double or Nothing at Louis Armstrong Stadium. Annie Wermiel\/NY Post<\/p>\n
The company has made it a point to run a pay-per-view regularly in the New York area at Nassau Coliseum, UBS Arena and Prudential Center, but this marks the first time one is taking place inside the five boroughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
AEW World champion MJF, a Plainview native not shy about professing his love for Long Island, understands the importance of an NYC show, even if it is in Queens. The Big Apple is \u201cpart of Americana.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people think of America, when they don\u2019t live in America, they think of New York. Every single famous movie is based in New York,\u201d MJF told The Post in a phone interview. \u201cThe most famous professional wrestler who ever lived, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, is from New York. \u2026 the nice part is I don\u2019t have to schlep as far as I usually do for the pay-per-view.\u201d <\/p>\n
The New York shows have always felt like more of a home game for MJF, especially on Long Island, compared to other parts of the U.S. and other countries. There is still no love lost for him by the city fan base, and it comes with a different vibe than his hometown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fans on Long Island are a lot more intelligent and a lot more attractive,\u201d he said. \u201cThe second you leave Long Island, you are looking at Queens, that\u2019s gross. Hammerstein Ballroom, we go there every now and then. That place is disgusting. The people who inhabit Manhattan are grotesque.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the five boroughs are gross. The difference is, I\u2019m not a fan of them and they\u2019re not a fan of me. It\u2019s a different kind of New York. To me, the difference between Long Island and the five boroughs it might as well be Buffalo to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
AEW is coming off a strong 2025 creatively, powered by the redemption story of \u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page defeating Jon Moxley and the Death Riders to reclaim the world championship at All In Texas in July.<\/p>\n
MJF, who will turn 30 in March, returned from a three-month hiatus in December and defeated Page, Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland at Worlds End to begin his second reign as AEW World champion.<\/p>\n
AEW will hold \u201cDouble or Nothing\u201d at Louis Armstrong Stadium on May 24. AEW<\/p>\n
He plans on still being champion when Double or Nothing comes around and trying to eclipse his record 406-day run as world champion and continue to fuel the energy he believes his return has injected into the company as he heads into a title defense against Page at the Revolution pay-per-view on March 15.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s called MJF. Ticket sales are up, ratings are up, momentum is up,\u201d MJF said. \u201cMore people are talking about our company than they have in a long time and it\u2019s because daddy has the world title. I\u2019m the greatest wrestler on God\u2019s green earth. \u2026 I will be defeating \u2018Hangman\u2019 Adam Page at Revolution because he\u2019s a loser and I can assure you I will be walking into Double or Nothing still the AEW world champion and I look forward to defeating whoever comes my way at that point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
MJF, who has been with AEW since its inception in 2019, believes this is the best version of the company so far, after it got through a time a few years back where not everyone in the locker room was pulling in the same direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MJF attacks Brody King during their match at Grand Slam in Australia. Ricky Havlik\/AEW<\/p>\n
\u201cTo put it mildly, I don\u2019t have to name names, it\u2019s not necessary to name names, but problem children tend to have a way of finding their way out the door,\u201d MJF said. \u201cAnd some of those problem children, in my opinion, they thought they were taking a step forward when all they were doing was taking a step laterally or backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now he feels AEW is in the blood, the hearts, the minds and the souls of all the performers fans are seeing weekly on TV. They want the company to be around for generations to come as a top-tier alternative to WWE.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s pushing each other to be the absolute best version of ourselves,\u201d MJF said. \u201cI\u2019m pushing Swerve, Swerve\u2019s pushing Hangman, Hangman\u2019s pushing Kenny [Omega], Kenny\u2019s pushing [Kyle] Fletcher, Fletcher\u2019s pushing [Will] Ospreay and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n
\u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page takes on Andrade. Ricky Havlik\/AEW<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a domino effect. And that\u2019s why our show is so incredible right now. We are all biting on each other\u2019s heels. We all want the spot. We all want the championship. To top it off, we all care deeply about All Elite Wrestling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tickets for Double or Nothing\u00a0go on sale March 9 at 10 a.m., with presales beginning the week of March 2 at AEWTix.com<\/a> and Ticketmaster.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AEW on pay-per-view is making its New York City debut. Tony Khan\u2019s company is bringing one of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38531,68,9,56,63,65,64,319,8962],"class_list":["post-137502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-exclusive","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sports","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}