AEW Double or Nothing predictions: CM Punk’s moment highlights stacked card
All Elite Wrestling celebrates its three-year anniversary with a loaded Double or Nothing pay-per-view that could shift the landscape going into an important stretch for the company.
CM Punk has a chance to become a world champion of the first time since 2013 and kick off the Summer of Punk. Wardlow’s star is set to be freed from MJF, there will be a clash between “pro wrestlers” and “sports entertainers”, a dream tag-team rematch and the inaugural winners of the Owen Hart Foundation men’s and women’s tournaments will be crowned. It will launch AEW into a summer that includes its crossover pay-per-view with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Forbidden Door, and end with All Out on Labor Day weekend. AEW’s pay-per-views usually come with a few surprises, so expect the unexpected.
With a jam-packed card set, The Post’s pro wrestling columnist Joseph Staszewski gives his predictions of what we will see at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday (8 p.m., Bleacher Report PPV).
Danhausen and Hook over Tony Nese and Mark Sterling (Buy In)
Hook hasn’t lost yet in AEW and this match certainly is not the place for it. Hope this ends with a double pin or Hook doing something to allow Danhausen to avenge his squash loss to Nese and give the fans something to cheer early.

Darby Allin over Kylie O’Reilly
Allin called out O’Reilly for injuring Sting’s leg in a steel chair and this match wasn’t made official until Friday. Allin will to avenge Sting’s injury. It’s uncertain if the injury is just in the storyline or legit.
House of Black (Malaki Black, Brody King, Buddy Matthews) over Death Triangle (Pac, Rey Fenix, Penta El Zero Miedo)
This feels like a tossup, but I’d lean toward AEW wanting to keep House of Black strong as it’s the newer faction and really hasn’t scratched the service of its potential in the company.
Jade Cargill (c.) over Anna Jay (TBS championship)
This has had so little build that just maybe AEW sneaks in a stunning loss for Cargill to an opponent she’s already beaten. More likely, Cargill — who just had a piece in The Players’ Tribune — gets pushed by Jay before ultimately winning and awaiting a potential challenge from Ruby Soho or Kris Statlander in the future.
Scorpio Sky, Ethan Page and Paige VanZant over Sammy Guevara, Frankie Kazarian and Tay Conti.
Having Paige VanZant lose in her in-ring debut seems out of the question. Since the stipulation is if Guevara and Kazarian lose they can not longer challenge Sky for the TNT championship, it immediately goes away once he drops the title so that shouldn’t be a concern for not letting VanZant get a win here.
Samoa Joe over Adam Cole (Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament final)
This will be the first ever meeting between these two, a match that originally seemed destined to happen in NXT. Instead someone leaves the first tournament winner. Cole likely will need to go back to Undisputed Elite business after this and a win keeps Joe unbeaten in AEW and a potential opponent for a world champion CM Punk. This one is one of the matches that could steal the show.
Ruby Soho over Britt Baker (Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament final)
AEW may reconsider this one after Soho was booed heavily while cutting a promo on Baker after defeating Kris Statlander in an awesome match on Rampage. For now at least, it appears AEW is intent on have Soho going on a revenge tour. She lost to Baker at Grand Slam last summer in a match for the AEW women’s world championship TBS champion Jade Cargill may be next.

Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager, Angelo Parker and Matt Menard) over The Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson Jon Moxley) and Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz in Anarchy in the Arena
AEW hasn’t exactly explained what an Anarchy in the Arena match is, but I’d bet on it being exactly as it sounds – a falls count anywhere affair. For that reason, it opens the door for the “sport entertainers” from the Jericho Appreciation Society to one up the “pro wrestlers.” It likely will lead into a Blood and Guts match on Dynamite in the next two weeks before the Forbidden Door show on June 26.
Wardlow over MJF
The only question here is how fast does Wardlow win to free himself from MJF’s employment and how many times does he power bomb his soon to be former on-screen boss. This whole storyline has turned Wardlow into a rising star and he could leave an ever bigger one after this match. Expect some Shawn Spears interference, but it won’t matter.
The Hardy Boyz over The Young Bucks
Here is another one that could go either way. The Young Bucks won their last meeting at Ring of Honor’s SuperCard of Honor in 2017. The Hardys, who are talking about going on one last run, feel like they need to be victorious to establish them in the AEW tag team division. For that reason, I lean toward the Matt and Jeff to beat “Hardy cosplayers” Nick and Matt Jackson.
Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland over Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) (c.) and Team Taz (Will Hobbs and Ricky Starks) (AEW tag team championship)
AEW has something special building with the new team of Lee and Swerve and it’s time to run with it. Jurassic Express’ reign, which began in January, has felt a bit lackluster. With the belts off them, AEW can start to give Jungle Boy a singles push and a potential match against Christian Cage.
Thunder Rosa (c.) vs. Serena Deeb (AEW women’s world championship)
Thunder Rosa cut one of the best promos of her AEW career on Dynamite heading into this match and really sounded like a champion. This feud will get her reign off to a solid start. These two likely will put on a wrestling clinic with Deeb just constantly being unable to put the champion away.
CM Punk over “Hangman” Adam Page (c) (AEW world championship)
It’s hard to see AEW get CM Punk to this point and not put the strap on him, unless they want to push this feud to a match with a stipulation down the road. Hangman is dealing with self-doubt again, this time channeling it through fake anger at Punk, who has kept his approach fairly low key. Unless AEW wants to have Hangman do something nefarious to keep the championship at all costs, he likely will make an emotional mistake trying to “destroy” Punk that costs him the championship.
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