ESPN has officially restored its AEW section, and one in all the primary major features focuses on Darby Allin ahead of this weekend’s AEW Double or Nothing 2026 pay-per-view event.
The article, written by Andreas Hale and titled “AEW’s Darby Allin keeps tempting fate and coming back for more,” was published prematurely of Sunday’s pay-per-view event. AEW also promoted the feature across its social media platforms on May 20.
The piece dives deep into Allin’s long history of dangerous stunts and high-risk behavior that stretches far beyond skilled wrestling. Among the many stories highlighted were Allin landing a skateboard kickflip at 20,998 feet during his Mount Everest climb, performing a front flip off a piano onto concrete when he was just five years old, and making a 100-foot jump on a Can-Am while gripping bicycle handlebars at Travis Pastrana’s property just days after winning the AEW World Championship.
Despite his reckless popularity and punishing in-ring style, Allin has reportedly suffered only three broken bones throughout his wrestling profession.
Allin successfully summited Mount Everest on May 18, 2025, at 8:40 AM local time, becoming one in all fewer than 7,000 people to succeed in the summit because the first successful ascent in 1953. Once at the highest, Allin planted an AEW flag and filmed a video wherein he proposed to his girlfriend, Sarah.
Chatting with ESPN about his outlook on life, Allin said,
“If the worst that’s going to occur to me is dying, so be it. It’s advantageous, however it’s not value sitting by and watching this life go by and doing nothing interesting with it.”
Allin captured the AEW World Championship on April 15, 2026, defeating MJF in under three minutes during Dynamite: Spring BreakThru on the Angel of the Winds Arena in Kennewick, Washington — just ten miles from the Buddy Wayne Academy where he trained. Since then, he has successfully defended the title seven times.
Tony Khan also spoke to ESPN for the story, praising Allin’s growth inside AEW and calling him the fitting alternative to develop into each world champion and one in all the faces of the corporate after being a part of AEW because the very first episode of AEW Dynamite.
Allin’s latest title defense comes this Sunday at Double or Nothing 2026, where he faces MJF in a title-versus-hair match. If MJF loses, he must shave his head.
AEW Double or Nothing 2026 takes place on Sunday, May 24, at Louis Armstrong Stadium. The event airs on HBO Max PPV at 8 PM EST, while the Buy In pre-show begins at 7 PM EST with Mick Foley joining Renee Paquette because the co-host.
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