Why There Was No Blood For Stadium Stampede At AEW Double Or Nothing 2026

Stadium Stampede returned to All Elite Wrestling, with a bloodless 14-man brawl taking place at Double or Nothing on May 24 206.

The Stadium Stampede - as well as Anarchy in the Arena - has become one of the highlights of AEW’s annual pay per view offerings, with the matches infamous for being wild, sprawling, and often blood spattered. However, as noted, Stadium Stampede 2026 was a strictly bloodless affair, with the New York Athletic Commission not allowing bloodshed for the match.

A report from F4WOnline’s Bryan Alvarez also states that the Commission also would not sanction any in-crowd brawling.

The match was still a wild and wooly affair, with a backstage food fight, a giant tennis racquet, and a bus crash all part of the action, with the babyface team of Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin), and The Elite (Kenny Omega, Jack Perry, & The Young Bucks) defeating The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, & Toa Liona), The Don Callis Family’s Mark Davis, & Andrade El Idolo, and The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay).

This was the fourth Stadium Stampede match in AEW history, with the last coming at AEW All In 2023 in London’s Wembley Stadium.