AEW Dynamite Notes: Andrade El Idolo & The Dogs Joins Ricochet’s Team for Stadium Stampede Match, Brian Cage & Mark Briscoe Returns, Two Men’s & One Women’s Owen Hart Cup 1st Round and MJF vs. Darby Allin in Hair vs. AEW World Title Matches Set for Double or Nothing, 5/20 Show Card, 5/16 Collision Card

AEW
May 13, 2026

Andrade El Idolo & The Dogs Joins Ricochet’s Team for 14-Man Stadium Stampede Match at AEW Double or Nothing 2026

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville in Asheville, North Carolina featured one newly updated match for the card of Double or Nothing 2026.

This newly updated match announced was a 14-Man Stadium Stampede match of The Demand (Ricochet, Toa Liona, & Bishop Kaun), Don Callis Family (Mark Davis & Andrade El Idolo), & The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) vs. Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley), & The Elite (Jungle Jack Perry, Kenny Omega, & The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson)).

This newly updated match was setup following a backstage promo segment involving The Demand and Davis. Ricochet revealed that the remaining partners for his team were Andrade and The Dogs, confirming that this year’s match will be a 14-Man team match and not the usual 10-Man team match.

Current card for AEW Double or Nothing 2026:

  • AEW Women’s World Championship Four-way match – Hikaru Shida vs. Kris Statlander vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Thekla (c)
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship New York Street Fight I Quit match – Cage & Cope (Christian Cage & Adam Copeland) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)
  • AEW International Championship – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)
  • 14-Man Stadium Stampede match – The Demand (Ricochet, Toa Liona, & Bishop Kaun), Don Callis Family (Mark Davis & Andrade El Idolo), & The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) vs. Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley), & The Elite (Jungle Jack Perry, Kenny Omega, & The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson))

Brian Cage Makes Surprise Return & Answers TNT Title Open Challenge

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Brian Cage making his surprise return from injury.

During the show, JetSpeed’s “Speedball” Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight came out for their scheduled matches. Following Bailey’s victory in a quick squash match, Knight got into the ring for his match right afterwards and waited for his mystery opponent to come out. Cage’s music played and came out to the ring revealing he was the one who answered the challenge.

This was Cage’s first appearance in AEW since March of 2025.

Two Men’s and One Women’s Owen Hart Cup Matches Set for AEW Double or Nothing 2026

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the first three of four new matches announced for the card of Double or Nothing 2026.

These three new matches announced were First Round matches for this year’s Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament.

The new matches were:

  • 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay
  • 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Swerve Strickland vs. Bandido
  • 2026 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Willow Nightingale vs. Alex Windsor

Mark Briscoe Makes Surprise Return

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Mark Briscoe making a surprise return.

Briscoe’s surprise return was setup following a backstage interview segment involving The Conglomeration’s Willow Nightingale, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, and Kyle O’Reilly. Briscoe showed up after O’Reilly talked about how something has been missing for some time and needing a word of the day to motivate them. This led to Briscoe showing up and hyped up The Conglomeration for his return back with the group. Briscoe then issued a challenge to Tommaso Ciampa for next week’s show.

This was Briscoe’s first appearance since this past March due to a storyline injury.

MJF vs. Darby Allin in Hair vs. AEW World Title Match Set for AEW Double or Nothing 2026

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the fourth of four new matches announced for the card of Double or Nothing 2026, which takes place on May 24th at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York.

This new match announced was a AEW World Championship Hair vs. Title match of MJF (hair) vs. Darby Allin (AEW World).

This new match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over MJF demanding a rematch for the title and Allin only willing to grant it if MJF put his hair on the line. Following Allin’s victory over Konosuke Takeshita to retain his title, Allin called out MJF for their match contract signing if he really wanted a shot at his title. This led to MJF coming out and after some back-and-forth banter, MJF signed the contract after Allin did earlier to make the match official. This then led to MJF attacking Allin and a brawl breaking out that was ended after TNT Champion Kevin Knight rushed out to the ring to prevent MJF from hitting a top rope Tombstone to Allin.

Current card for AEW Double or Nothing 2026:

  • AEW World Championship Hair vs. Title match – MJF (hair) vs. Darby Allin (AEW World)
  • AEW Women’s World Championship Four-way match – Hikaru Shida vs. Kris Statlander vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Thekla (c)
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship New York Street Fight I Quit match – Cage & Cope (Christian Cage & Adam Copeland) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)
  • AEW International Championship – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)
  • 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay
  • 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Swerve Strickland vs. Bandido
  • 2026 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First Round match – Willow Nightingale vs. Alex Windsor
  • 14-Man Stadium Stampede match – The Demand (Ricochet, Toa Liona, & Bishop Kaun), Don Callis Family (Mark Davis & Andrade El Idolo), & The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) vs. Chris Jericho, The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley), & The Elite (Jungle Jack Perry, Kenny Omega, & The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson))

Current Card for Next Week’s AEW Dynamite Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one new match announced for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on May 20th at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine.

This upcoming show was announced to be a three-hour show with the first two hours branded as Dynamite and the third hour as Collision.

Current card for May 20th AEW Dynamite show:

  • Mark Briscoe vs. Tommaso Ciampa

Current Card for This Week’s AEW Collision Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured one new match announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on May 16th at the Wicomico Youth And Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland.

Current card for May 16th AEW Collision show:

  • AEW Women’s World Championship Five-Minute Eliminator match – mystery opponents vs. Divine Dominion (Lena Kross & Megan Bayne) (c)
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