AEW Double or Nothing 2026 is rapidly approaching and tickets have been flying off the shelves in anticipation for the company’s annual celebration. The Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York has never held a wrestling event before, but whichever company tries to follow what AEW is producing with Double or Nothing has a high bar to surpass.

Dave Meltzer wrote in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Double or Nothing is likely to sell out, with a total of 13,848 tickets sold at the time of writing. The maximum capacity with limited or no staging, something Meltzer says is looking likely given the layout of the building, is 14,053, meaning that the company will have sold out the building before bell time. Meltzer also noted that the secondary market has become a lot stronger for the show given that there are so few tickets left to purchase, with the cheapest get-in price currently sitting at $73. Meltzer rounded off by saying that the marquee matchup of Darby Allin and MJF’s Title vs. Hair match has also helped shift tickets in the past week.

Elsewhere on the Double or Nothing card, the 2026 Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments will get underway. In the men’s tournament, Will Ospreay will face Samoa Joe and Swerve Strickland will take on Bandido, while Willow Nightingale and Alex Windsor will kick off the women’s tournament. The Stadium Stampede makes its return as Chris Jericho, The Elite, The Hurt Syndicate, and Jack Perry will take on The Demand, The Dogs, Mark Davis and Andrade El Idolo. Thekla will defend her AEW Women’s World Championship against Jamie Hayter, Hikaru Shida, and Kris Statlander. Konosuke Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada finally look to settle their score over the AEW International Championship, and if Adam Copeland and Christian Cage fail to capture the AEW World Tag Team Championships in their “I Quit” match against FTR, they will never team again.

Fans of former Women’s North American Champion, “The Glamour,” Blake Monroe may not have to wait on her “WWE SmackDown” debut much longer, according to a new report. Monroe was called up to the main roster following her casket match loss against Tatum Paxley on the April 21 edition of “WWE NXT: Revenge,” and teases for her arrival have been airing ever since on the blue brand.

According to PWInsider Elite, Monroe is expected to be on the road for “SmackDown” as early as next week, when the show takes to the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. Monroe was amongst the slew of “NXT” callups following WWE WrestleMania 42, but she is the last to debut of those previously reported.

Monroe will join Fatal Influence’s Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley, and Lainey Reid on the blue brand, as well as former NXT Champion Ricky Saints. Her fellow former Women’s NA Champion Sol Ruca was brought up to “WWE Raw.” Ethan Page and Joe Hendry joined Ruca on the red brand. Je’Von Evans, Oba Femi, and Trick Williams, all former “NXT” stars, have been making a splash on the main roster since before WrestleMania.

“The Glamour” made the jump from AEW, where she was known as Mariah May, to “NXT” back in June 2025, months after her highly-touted Hollywood Ending match against Toni Storm. Monroe is a former AEW Women’s World Champion, and she only held the Women’s North American Championship while competing in “NXT.” After winning the title from Zaria, defending on behalf of Ruca, at Halloween Havoc, Monroe lost the title in controversial manner in December 2026 in a botched finish against Thea Hail.

Earlier this week, WWE announced that it had added 10 new live events, or untelevised events known as “house shows” to its 2026 summer tour, in cities spanning from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Savannah, Georgia from July to the end of August. The lack of house shows is something major stars like Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, on his “What Do You Want to Talk About?” podcast, had lamented, as the untelevised aspect gives younger stars the chance to get in reps and figure out new things without the world watching.

According to Dave Meltzer in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the shows were added in the weeks after Rhodes’ request, and Meltzer was told that the summer dates were indeed added to help young talent. WWE has called up numerous stars from “WWE NXT” over the last seven or so months, with a majority of stars being called up after WWE WrestleMania 42, with more reportedly on the way.

“What we were told is that with more younger wrestlers on the roster than before, they felt it was good for them to get more experience away from television so this was the time to expand the schedule,” Meltzer wrote.

He noted that there would more than likely be a nice profit from the house shows, as compared to other years WWE ran them when the company wasn’t as popular. The previous belief was that more shows created less of a demand, and the roster was older, so WWE chose to cut back. In “NXT,” talent often work the “Coconut Loop,” or house shows in smaller cities and venues in Florida for them to get reps in, in front of a live crowd without TV cameras present.

Earlier this week, it was revealed AEW is suing TrillerTV and its parent company, Triller Group Inc. over late payments to the tune of just under $5 million. Prior to that, TrillerTV filed its own lawsuit against its parent company, saying it can’t pay its debts to companies like AEW, as it has been abandoned by Triller Group Inc. According to Dave Meltzer on “Wrestling Observer Radio,” things with TrillerTV overall haven’t been good even before AEW gave it written notice back at the beginning of 2025.

“I remember being told, I’m going to say late 2024, maybe even earlier, some of the companies were telling me ‘They’re getting late on paying us,’ and things like that, but nobody went public with it, because I guess it’d be bad publicity,” Meltzer said. “When they got, I think it was about a million and a half behind, in January 2025, AEW wrote them a letter and basically said, ‘You’re behind. You’re in danger of breaching the contract.’ So [Triller] went to their parent company and basically said, ‘We need money. We need to pay these people.’ According to the lawsuit, the Triller Group, which is the parent company, said, ‘Okay, we’ll send you the money.’ Then they never send them the money.”

While TrillerTV has been home to other promotions, such as House of Glory and GCW over the years, according to Meltzer, AEW was about 25 percent of its revenue, possibly even more. AEW ended its relationship with TrillerTV in April and launched its own service, MyAEW, internationally the month prior, where fans can watch weekly programming as well as pay-per-views.

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