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Double or Nothing (2024)

Double or Nothing (2024) was an AEW pay-per-view event in Las Vegas on May 26, 2024. It featured MJF's return and the Anarchy in the Arena main event.

Double or Nothing (2025)

AEW Double or Nothing 2025, a pay-per-view held May 25, 2025 at Desert Diamond Arena, Glendale, Arizona; AEW's Arizona PPV debut. Adam Page and Mercedes Mone won Owen Hart Cup finals; Anarchy in the Arena returned.

Double or Nothing (2026)

Double or Nothing (2026) was AEW's May 24, 2026 pay-per-view at Louis Armstrong Stadium, Queens, New York, its first New York and HBO Max edition; MJF beat Darby Allin Title vs. Hair, Cage & Cope and Takeshita won titles.

Doug Blubaugh

Doug Blubaugh was an American freestyle wrestler who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and later coached at Indiana University.

Doug Williams (wrestler)

Doug Williams (Douglas Clayton Durdle, b. 1972, Reading) is an English retired technical wrestler, two-time TNA X Division Champion, British Invasion member, ROH Pure Champion, and Chaos Theory originator.

Douglas Lima

Douglas "The Phenom" Lima, born 1988 in Brazil, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former three-time Bellator welterweight champion who now fights at middleweight for the PFL.

Dragon Lee (wrestler)

Dragon Lee (Muñoz González, born 1995, Tala, Jalisco), Mexican luchador in WWE's LWO on Raw and AAA; also Ryu Lee in NJPW. 12 major titles including NXT North American, WWE Speed, and World Tag Team with AJ Styles.

Drake Maverick

Drake Maverick (James Michael Curtin, born 1983), also known as Rockstar Spud, English wrestler; 205 Live GM, multi-time WWE 24/7 Champion, two-time TNA X-Division Champion; since 2022 a WWE writer/producer, returned to the ring for PROGRESS in 2026.

Dream Star Fighting Marigold

Dream Star Fighting Marigold (マリーゴールド), or Marigold, is a Japanese joshi puroresu promotion founded April 15, 2024 by Rossy Ogawa after his Stardom dismissal, with a WWE working relationship, four titles, and the Dream Star Grand Prix tournament.

Drew Dober

Drew Dober, American UFC lightweight (born 1988, Omaha), holds the all-time UFC lightweight knockout record with 11 stoppages; 29-15-0 (1 NC) pro record, two-time amateur Muay Thai national champion.

Drew Gulak

Drew Gulak (born 1987, Philadelphia) is an American professional wrestler and coach; WWE 2016-2024, Cruiserweight and 24/7 Champion, CZW World Heavyweight Champion, now independent and running Catchpoint schools.

Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre, ring name of Andrew McLean Galloway IV, is a Scottish professional wrestler in WWE and the first Briton to win the Royal Rumble, in 2020.

Dricus du Plessis

Dricus "Stillknocks" du Plessis, South African UFC middleweight fighter; first South African UFC champion (UFC 297, 2024), defended vs Adesanya, lost belt to Chimaev at UFC 319, record 24-3.

Driulis Gonzalez

Driulis Gonzalez (full name Driulis González Morales) is a retired Cuban judoka born in 1973. She won four Olympic medals across five Olympic Games, including gold in 1996.

Droz (wrestler)

Droz (Darren Drozdov, 1969-2023), American pro wrestler and former NFL defensive lineman for the Denver Broncos; WWF's 'Puke,' Legion of Doom partner; quadriplegic after a 1999 D-Lo Brown powerbomb.

Drunken boxing

Drunken boxing, also known as zui quan or drunken fist, is a group of Chinese martial arts styles that imitate a drunk person while masking real strikes.

Drunken Master (醉拳)

Drunken Master (醉拳, Zui Quan) is a 1978 Hong Kong kung fu comedy directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Jackie Chan as young Wong Fei-hung trained by Beggar So; it ranked second at the 1978 Hong Kong box office and founded the kung fu comedy genre.

Dual wield

Dual wield: fighting with one weapon in each hand, in offset pairs like rapier and parrying dagger or Musashi's Niten Ichi-ryu, or matched pairs. Distinguished from shield and two-handed weapon use; survives in kendo nito, HEMA, and Chinese double weapons.

Duane Ludwig

Duane "Bang" Ludwig (born 1978), American MMA coach and retired kickboxer and MMA fighter; held the UFC's fastest-knockout record with a six-second KO of Jonathan Goulet (2006), later 2013 Coach of the Year at Team Alpha Male and founder of Bang Muay Thai.

Dudley Boyz

The Dudley Boyz, Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley, an ECW-born WWE tag team (also Team 3D in TNA) famous for the 3D and table spots; 18 WWE/WCW/ECW title reigns, 23 worldwide, 2018 WWE Hall of Famers.

Duke Hudson

Duke Hudson, real name Brendan Vink (born 1989, Adelaide), Australian wrestler; WWE NXT 2019-2025, one-time NXT Tag Team Champion with Andre Chase in Chase U; released January 2025, now wrestles as Duke Hanson.

Dumitru Pirvulescu

Dumitru Pîrvulescu (Dumitru Pârvulescu), 1933–2007, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler; flyweight ≤52 kg. Olympic gold at Rome 1960, first Romanian Greco-Roman champion, bronze Tokyo 1964, world silver 1961.

Dustin Poirier

Dustin Poirier, "The Diamond" (born 1989, Lafayette, Louisiana), retired UFC lightweight, 30-10, interim champion 2019, beat McGregor twice, lost final fight to Holloway at UFC 318, 2025.

Dustin Rhodes

Dustin Rhodes (Dustin Runnels), American pro wrestler, son of Dusty Rhodes, half-brother of Cody; famous as WWE's Goldust (1995, three Intercontinental reigns), now in AEW, TNT Champion July 2025.

Dusty Rhodes

Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Runnels, 1945–2015), "The American Dream," American pro wrestler from Austin, Texas; three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Hard Times promo, War Games creator, 2007 WWE Hall of Famer, father of Goldust and Cody Rhodes.

Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (Dusty Cup): WWE NXT bracket-style tag team tournament honoring Dusty Rhodes, first held 2015, won by Finn Balor & Samoa Joe; 2026 edition has 14 teams from five brands.

Dutch Mantel

Dutch Mantel (Dutch Mantell): ring name shared by Wayne Keown (b. 1949), wrestler, booker, and WWE's Zeb Colter, and by Alfred de Re la Gardiur (1881), Luxembourg-born early wrestler.

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (born 1972, Hayward, California) is an American actor, producer, and former WWE wrestler, the first third-generation WWE Superstar, an eight-time WWE Champion, and star of the Fast & Furious and Jumanji films.

Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Dwight Muhammad Qawi, born Dwight Braxton (1953-2025), American boxer, the Camden Buzzsaw, two-division world champion: WBC light heavyweight 1981-83 and WBA cruiserweight 1985-86, IBHOF 2004, record 41-11-1.

Dynamite Kid

Dynamite Kid (Thomas Billington, 1958–2018), English pro wrestler, half of the British Bulldogs with cousin Davey Boy Smith; WWF tag champion at WrestleMania 2, famed for Tiger Mask matches in Japan.