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Double or Nothing (2022)

The 2022 Double or Nothing was the fourth annual Double or Nothing professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place during Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 2022, at the T-Mobile Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada. The event returned Double or Nothing to its home of Las Vegas, after the previous two years had to be held at Daily's Place and the adjacent TIAA Bank Field stadium in Jacksonville, Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including one on The Buy In pre-show. In the main event, CM Punk defeated "Hangman" Adam Page to win the AEW World Championship, which was Punk's first world championship win since 2011. In other prominent matches, Adam Cole and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. were the inaugural winners of the men's and women's Owen Hart Cup, The Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, Jake Hager, Angelo Parker, and Matt Menard) defeated The Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley), Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz by technical submission in an Anarchy in the Arena match, and in the opening bout, Wardlow defeated MJF, which freed Wardlow from his "contract" with MJF and officially "signed" with AEW.

The event saw the AEW debuts of Stokely Hathaway (who aligned himself with Jade Cargill), Athena (previously known as Ember Moon in WWE), and Rush (who aligned himself with Andrade El Ídolo and became a member of the Andrade Family Office). It additionally featured a special appearance from Owen Hart's widow Dr. Martha Hart, the in-ring debut of mixed martial artist Paige VanZant, and the first-ever Anarchy in the Arena match, which replaced Stadium Stampede featured at the prior two events.

Double or Nothing is considered All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) marquee event, having first been held in 2019, which was the promotion's first professional wrestling event and first pay-per-view (PPV) produced. It is held annually in May during Memorial Day weekend and is one of AEW's "Big Four" PPVs, which includes All Out, Full Gear, and Revolution, their four biggest domestic shows produced quarterly. The event's name is a reference to its Las Vegas theme, which was where the inaugural event was held. After the previous two years' events had to be held at Daily's Place and the adjacent TIAA Bank Field stadium in Jacksonville, Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 event returned Double or Nothing to Las Vegas.

On February 23, 2022, it was confirmed that the fourth Double or Nothing event would take place on May 29, but unlike the inaugural event, which was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the 2022 event was held at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Additionally as part of Double or Nothing week, both of AEW's weekly television programs, Wednesday Night Dynamite and Friday Night Rampage, aired live on May 25 and May 27, respectively, at the nearby Michelob Ultra Arena at the Mandalay Bay. There was also a fan fest on Saturday, May 28, held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Tickets for Double or Nothing went on sale on March 4, 2022, in which first day sales drew over $1 million at the gate, marking the first time AEW crossed $1 million at the gate. In addition to PPV, AEW partnered with Joe Hand Promotions to air Double or Nothing in select movie theaters across the United States.

Double or Nothing featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines. Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Rampage, the supplementary online streaming shows, Dark and Elevation, and The Young Bucks' YouTube series Being The Elite.

In September 2021, AEW announced the establishment of the Owen Hart Cup, an annual tournament to honor the legacy of Owen Hart, a prominent wrestler for WWE (at the time was known as the World Wrestling Federation) during the 1990s, who died at that company's 1999 Over the Edge PPV. The tournament was established in collaboration with The Owen Hart Foundation. On December 17, AEW revealed that there would be both a men's and women's tournament of the Owen Hart Cup, and the winners would receive a trophy called "The Owen". It was also confirmed that the tournaments would begin in May with the finals to be held at Double or Nothing. AEW President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan revealed that he had originally considered concluding the Owen Hart Cup at the Revolution, but decided on Double or Nothing so that Dr. Martha Hart could be involved due to her schedule. In deciding why there would be both a men's and women's tournament, Khan likened it to the Wimbledon tennis tournament, which also has both men's and women's tournaments.

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