10 Things You Didn't Know About AEW Double Or Nothing

10. What REALLY Happened With MJF

Rarely does interest in a pro wrestling pay-per-view peak before the show has started.

This was precisely the case with Double or Nothing 2022, a subjectively excellent show with an objectively abhorrent build. Neither side of that two-sided statement was of much relevance by the time of the first bell, the attention instead being solely on MJF who, after no-showing a meet and greet and reportedly possessing a plane ticket ready to fly him out of Las Vegas, was the talk of the town.

So much of the story went unknown, such was the abruptness of it. MJF indeed did show up to the T-Mobile Arena to get the ever-loving p*ss beaten out of him by Wardlow - but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Per PWInsider's Mike Johnson, MJF didn't rock up to Double or Nothing until after the Buy-In pre-show had begun, being "sequestered into a room". Less than an hour later, as MJF's music began to play, he wasn't ready in the Gorilla Position, leading many who knew he was there to believe he'd walked out. MJF, suppressing these rumours, walked out, did the job to Wardlow, and was stretchered to the back where, alongside Pat Buck, he left the show "immediately".

Was it a work?

Was it a shoot?

For the time, nobody truly knew.