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Top AEW Star Getting Married Just A Day Before Forbidden Door 2026: “No Honeymoon Here”

By John Canton • Published May 23, 2026 09:47 EDT
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A major name in AEW is getting married the day before one of the company’s biggest shows of the year.

As the AEW World Champion, Darby Allin is known for being one of the biggest risk-takers in all of pro wrestling, who is willing to do anything to win a match.

Many fans thought Allin would never become the AEW World Champion due to his daredevil nature in the ring, but he proved everybody wrong when he beat MJF for the World Title on the Spring BreakThru edition of Dynamite.

Since winning the championship, Allin has had 7 successful World Title defenses, including matches on every episode of Dynamite and twice on Collision, too.

During an interview with Q1043 New York, Darby Allin revealed that he’s getting married on Saturday, June 27th, which is one day before the AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door PPV. That means no immediate honeymoon for the champ.

“June 27th. June 27th. Yes. So it’s coming up. I just found out the wedding’s on the 27th, and the very next day we have another pay-per-view. So no honeymoon — it’ll be in Seattle, where we’re from.”

The 33-year-old Allin has known his fiancée since high school: “Yeah, we met her on the school bus in high school.”

As Allin continued, he revealed that his future wife survived a shooting.

“They’re walking on a trail one day, and then he starts arguing with another wannabe gang member and that guy pulls out a gun… she got shot in the head.”

After reconnecting with his fiancée many years after high school, she thought it was cool that he was still wrestling.

“She’s like, ‘It’s so cool that you’re still doing all the crazy stuff from high school.’ Then I was like, ‘Let’s hang out,’ and then brought her bungee jumping.” (H/T Wrestlezone)

Darby Allin Defending AEW World Title At Double Or Nothing

In the main event of AEW Double or Nothing, Darby Allin will defend the World Title one more time against his biggest rival, the former 2-time AEW World Champion, Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF). There’s more than just the title on the line because if MJF loses this match, then he will have his head shaved.

The next AEW PPV is Double or Nothing on Sunday, May 24th in Queens, New York. Here’s the lineup so far:

* AEW World Championship – Title vs. Hair: Darby Allin (c) vs. Maxwell Jacob Friedman

* AEW International Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita

* AEW World Tag Team Championship I Quit Match: FTR – Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler vs. Adam Copeland & Christian Cage (If Cope and Cage lose, they must retire as a tag team)

* 14-man Stadium Stampede Match: Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin), and The Elite (Kenny Omega, “Jungle” Jack Perry, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) vs. The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona), The Dogs (David Finlay & Clark Connors) and The Don Callis Family (Mark Davis and Andrade El Idolo)

* AEW Women’s World Championship: Thekla (c) vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Kris Statlander

* AEW Continental Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Kyle O’Reilly

* Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinals: Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay

* Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinals: Swerve Strickland vs. Bandido

* Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinals: Athena vs. Mina Shirakawa

* Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia) vs. The Opps (Hook, Katsuyori Shibata, and Anthony Bowens) – PRE-SHOW

* Boom & Doom (“Big Boom!” A.J. and Q. T. Marshall) and The Conglomeration (Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, and Roderick Strong) (with Big Justice) vs. Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Carlie Bravo, Capt. Shawn Dean, and Anthony Ogogo) – PRE-SHOW

* Divine Dominion (Megan Bayne and Lena Kross) vs. Zayda Steel and Viva Van – PRE-SHOW