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IWGP World Heavyweight title match set for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ethan Renner

An IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match has been announced for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. 

In a match set up on this week’s Dynamite, Jay White will defend the IWGP World title in a four-way against Kazuchika Okada, Hangman Page, and Adam Cole. 

Following a Hangman vs. Silas Young match with Adam Cole on commentary on Dynamite, Cole cut a promo. White interrupted, and said that he would not be defending the title against Cole or Page on Sunday. White and Cole attacked Page, Cole seemingly considered attacking White, then Okada ran in to make the surprise save for Page, setting up the four-way. 

Including a bout announced for the Buy-In pre-show, 10 matches are now set for Forbidden Door. The lineup: 

AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —

  • Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jay White (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page vs. Adam Cole
  • AEW All-Atlantic Championship: Malakai Black vs. PAC vs. Miro vs. Tomohiro Ishii
  • AEW Women’s World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Toni Storm
  • IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships / ROH World Tag Team Championships: United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan) (c) vs. FTR (Dax HArwood & Cash Wheeler) (c) vs. Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero)
  • IWGP US Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Orange Cassidy
  • Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino
  • Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA
  • Bullet Club (Young Bucks, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo) vs. Dudes with Attitudes (Sting, Darby Allin, Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi)
  • Buy-In: Max Caster & Gunn Club (Billy Gunn, Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) vs. LA Dojo (Yuya Uemura, Alex Coughlin, Kevin Knight & The DKC)

Malakai Black qualifies for AEW All-Atlantic title match at Forbidden Door

Posted on by Bryan Rose

The four-way match to crown the first ever AEW All-Atlantic Champion is now set for Forbidden Door.

Malakai Black defeated Penta Oscuro to win the fourth spot in the Forbidden Door title match after hitting Penta with the black mass. After the match, PAC came out to face off against Black. A video then aired with Miro saying he would send everyone to meet their maker at Forbidden Door.

PAC was the first to qualify for the title match, defeating Buddy Matthews. Miro defeated Ethan Page to advance, while Tomohiro Ishii defeated Clark Connors at New Japan Road on June 21 to score the third spot.

Here is the current lineup for Forbidden Door, which takes place at the United Center in Chicago on June 26:

  • Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the interim AEW World Championship
  • PAC vs. Miro vs. Malakai Black vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship
  • Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, and Minoru Suzuki vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta, and Shota Umino
  • Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy for the IWGP United States Championship
  • Thunder Rosa vs. Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s World Championship
  • FTR vs. United Empire vs. Roppongi Vice for the ROH and IWGP Tag Team titles
  • Zack Sabre Jr. vs. a mystery opponent

Jay White to defend IWGP World title at Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ian Carey

Jay White will be defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Forbidden Door.

White stated on Dynamite last week that he will not be giving a title shot to either Hangman Page or Adam Cole. He will be defending the title on the show, however, it’s just not clear who his opponent will be. 

AEW sent out a press release on Tuesday with a lineup for the card. White is listed as defending his title against an opponent “TBD.” 

AEW’s last stop before the Forbidden Door is on Wednesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door will take place Sunday, June 26 from the United Center in Chicago. The updated lineup for the show is as follows: 

  • Interim AEW World Championship match: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White defends against an opponent TBD
  • AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa defends against Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay defends against Orange Cassidy
  • Four-way match to crown the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion: Miro vs. PAC vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro
  • Winner-take-all match for the ROH Tag Team titles and IWGP Tag Team titles: FTR vs. The Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Roppongi Vice
  • Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

New participant confirmed for AEW All-Atlantic title match at Forbidden Door

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Tomohiro Ishii has secured his spot in the All-Atlantic Championship match at AEW & NJPW’s Forbidden Door pay-per-view.

The first-ever AEW All-Atlantic Champion will be determined as Miro, PAC, Ishii, and either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro collide in a four-way match at Forbidden Door this Sunday. Ishii advanced to the title match by defeating Clark Connors at Tuesday’s New Japan Road show in Tokyo.

Ishii had to win two qualifying matches to get into the All-Atlantic Championship bout. He defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru on Monday to advance to the qualifier against Connors.

Black and Oscuro are facing each other on Dynamite this Wednesday to determine the final participant for the All-Atlantic Championship match.

Forbidden Door is being held at the United Center in Chicago on Sunday (June 26). It’s the first time that AEW and NJPW have ever co-promoted a show together.

The updated Forbidden Door card is listed below:

  • Interim AEW World Championship match: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa defends against Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay defends against Orange Cassidy
  • Four-way match to crown the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion: Miro vs. PAC vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro
  • Winner-take-all match for the ROH Tag Team titles and IWGP Tag Team titles: FTR vs. The Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Roppongi Vice
  • Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

Bryan Danielson to address Forbidden Door, Blood & Guts on AEW Dynamite

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Bryan Danielson has been announced for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite event.

Tony Khan announced that Danielson will appear to address the upcoming Forbidden Door pay-per-view, which takes place this Sunday, as well as Blood and Guts, which takes place on June 29.

Danielson has been out of action with an injury since Double or Nothing last month, when he, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Ortiz, and Santana lost to the Jericho Appreciation Society in an Anarchy in the Arena match. It was Danielson who passed out after a submission by Chris Jericho after Danielson and Kingston got into an argument.

Zack Sabre Jr. of New Japan Pro Wrestling has frequently been calling out Danielson, and did so again in backstage comments following Dominion. AEW announcers pushed on Friday the possibility of the match.

Here is the lineup so far for Wednesday’s Dynamite:

  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jon Moxley vs. Lance Archer & Chris Jericho
  • Will Ospreay & Aussie Open vs. Orange Cassidy & Roppongi Vice
  • Bryan Danielson to speak on Forbidden Door, Blood and Guts events
  • AEW All-Atlantic Championship qualifying match: Penta Oscuro vs. Malakai Black

AEW All-Atlantic title qualifying match set for New Japan Road

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Either Tomohiro Ishii or Clark Connors is headed to Forbidden Door.

Ishii vs. Connors in an AEW All-Atlantic Championship qualifying match will take place at Tuesday’s New Japan Road show in Tokyo. The winner will advance to the four-way match at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door to crown AEW’s first-ever All-Atlantic Champion.

Ishii and Connors advanced to the qualifying match with victories at Monday’s New Japan Road Show. Ishii defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru, while Connors defeated Tomoaki Honma.

Miro, PAC, and either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro will be the other three participants in the four-way match to crown the inaugural All-Atlantic Champion. On AEW Dynamite this Wednesday, Black and Oscuro are facing each other in a qualifying match.

Forbidden Door is being held at the United Center in Chicago this Sunday (June 26). Here’s the updated card for the pay-per-view:

  • Interim AEW World Championship match: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa defends against Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay defends against Orange Cassidy
  • Four-way match to crown the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion: Miro vs. PAC vs. Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro vs. Tomohiro Ishii or Clark Connors
  • Winner-take-all match for the ROH Tag Team titles and IWGP Tag Team titles: FTR vs. The Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Roppongi Vice
  • Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

AEW’s Andrade El Idolo says he was set to face Will Ospreay at Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ethan Renner

AEW’s Andrade El Idolo says he was supposed to face Will Ospreay at Forbidden Door, but the match was changed for political reasons.

Appearing on Hugo Savinovich’s Lucha Libre Online interview show, Andrade said that he was set to fly to Japan to shoot the angle for the match with Ospreay, but that plans changed. Credit to LuchaBlog for the translation: 

The change is a result of  the complicated political situation involving NJPW’s alliance with CMLL, as AEW has a working relationship with Mexico’s AAA promotion. Andrade worked one match for AAA in 2021, and one match so far this year, last appearing at Triplemania in Monterrey on April 30. 

In the interview with Savinovich, Andrade also expressed frustration with AAA, as he says that they have not booked him as they said they would, leading to a situation where he cannot work for NJPW due to the NJPW-CMLL relationship. Andrade says that he was scheduled for this weekend’s AAA Triplemania show, then that booking was canceled. 

Andrade’s full interview with Savinovich can be seen below.

ROH & IWGP Tag Team title match added to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ethan Renner

A “winner takes all” ROH World Tag Team Championship and IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match has been added to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. 

ROH Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler), IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb), and Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero) will face off in a triple threat match at Forbidden Door with both sets of titles on the line. 

Six matches have been announced for the Forbidden Door show. Here is the updated lineup: 

AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —

  • Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW Women’s World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Orange Cassidy
  • AEW All-Atlantic Championship: Miro vs. PAC vs. TBD vs. TBD
  • ROH World Tag Team Championship & IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: FTR vs. Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Roppongi Vice
  • Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

Speak Now: AEW Dynamite Road Rager show recap

Posted on by Denise Salcedo

It’s been a busy day of wrestling news, join on-camera personality Denise Salcedo as she breaks down the June 15 edition of AEW Dynamite Road Rager 2022!

Topics include: Chris Jericho vs. Ortiz hair vs. hair match, Will Ospreay vs. Dax Harwood, the return of Orange Cassidy, Moxley confronts Hiroshi Tanahashi, Miro adavances to Forbidden Door, Jay White attacks Hangman Page, Thunder Rosa’s reign as AEW Women’s World Champion, The Young Bucks win gold once again, and lots more! 

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Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy set for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Three new matches have been announced for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. 

Will Ospreay defending the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Orange Cassidy has been added to Forbidden Door. The match was set up in a post-match angle on this week’s Dynamite where Cassidy confronted Ospreay. 

Also announced, Thunder Rosa will defend the AEW Women’s World Championship against Toni Storm in Chicago on June 26. Storm defeated former champ Britt Baker on this week’s Dynamite, and had a staredown with Rosa for the second consecutive week. The match was officially announced later in the show. 

Additionally, Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki, and Sammy Guevara will face Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta, and Shota Umino in a trios match at Forbidden Door. The bout was announced during a face-to-face confrontation between Forbidden Door opponents Jon Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi on Dynamite. 

Here is the updated Forbidden Door lineup: 

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —

  • Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW Women’s World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Orange Cassidy
  • AEW All-Atlantic Championship: PAC vs. Miro vs. TBD vs. TBD
  • Minoru Suzuki, Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

Miro advances to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door All-Atlantic title match

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Miro defeated Ethan Page at AEW Dynamite Road Rager to advance to the inaugural All-Atlantic Championship match at Forbidden Door on June 26. 

With the victory, Miro becomes the second competitor to qualify for the four-way at Forbidden Door to crown the first All-Atlantic Champion. 

PAC defeated Buddy Matthews on last week’s Dynamite to qualify, while a Malakai Black vs. Penta Oscuro match on next week’s episode will determine the third entrant. 

The fourth entrant in the Forbidden Door title bout will be decided in Japan on June 20 and June 21. Tomohiro Ishii faces Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and Clark Connors takes on Tomoaki Honma at the June 20 New Japan Road show. The winners of those two matches will face off the next day at New Japan Road, with the winner added to the Forbidden Door bout. 

Here is the updated Forbidden Door lineup following Road Rager: 

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —

  • Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • AEW Women’s World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Toni Storm
  • IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Orange Cassidy
  • AEW All-Atlantic Championship: PAC vs. Miro vs. TBD vs. TBD
  • Minoru Suzuki, Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino

AEW’s Tony Khan stopped Tanahashi vs. Moxley from happening ‘many times’

Posted on by Josh Nason

AEW head Tony Khan admitted that he put the kibosh on Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi happening, not once but many times in the past.

During his weekly appearance on Busted Open Radio, Khan said there was backstory with how the match came to be, saying that in the past, “I would never allow it to happen.”

“They tried to do it so many times…I have always been there to stop it from happening. It’s such a huge match that we had to be involved if it was going to happen,” he said, joking he was like Vince McMahon at WWF Armageddon when McMahon drove out to the ring in a truck to prevent the six-way cage match from happening.

Khan said “it’s fate” that now is the right time and place for Moxley vs. Tanahashi to happen as it will be the main event for this month’s cross-promoted Forbidden Door pay-per-view with NJPW. The two will battle over the interim AEW World title.

Earlier this year, Moxley had challenged Tanahashi for May’s Capital Collision, saying he wanted the Japanese legend to stop ducking him.

The two will come face-to-face for the first time ever on Wednesday’s Dynamite.

Tony Khan ‘hoping’ AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door becomes annual event

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Tony Khan is hoping that Forbidden Door becomes an annual event.

In an interview with Comicbook, Khan expressed hope that the joint show between AEW and NJPW would happen anually going forward.

“Yeah. I think we are hoping that’s what it’ll become,” Khan said when asked.

Khan also talked about working with Gedo in developing the card for the June 26 show, which will take place at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

“So, Gedo and I, generally anything that involves AEW & New Japan, I think we’re both going to have to agree on what the matchup is, and what the ideas are for the show,” Khan said. And in general, that’s what we’ve been doing for over a year now. And it’s worked really well.”

The first match for Forbidden Door was set at NJPW Dominion this past weekend, when Hiroshi Tanahashi won the interim AEW World Championship qualifier. He will face Jon Moxley, who defeated Kyle O’Reilly to earn a spot in the title match. Another match, a four-way for the new AEW All-Atlantic Championship, has also been announced with PAC being the first to qualify.

Andrade, Lucha Bros not appearing at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

Posted on by Josh Nason

Due to the partnership between NJPW and CMLL, AAA contracted wrestlers Andrade El Idolo, Penta Oscuro and Rey Fenix will not appear at this month’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view.

LuchaBlog first reported the news Monday, saying Andrade was booked at one point and then removed from the show. Bryan Alvarez noted that with Penta and Fenix, it’s been known they wouldn’t be able to work the show “for a long time.”

AAA and CMLL are rival promotions in Mexico. Luchablog insinuated on Twitter that it was CMLL who forced NJPW’s hand:

Earlier Monday, Andrade tweeted the following:

https://twitter.com/AndradeElIdolo/status/1536220228291645443

As of this writing, neither Fenix nor Penta have tweeted anything about the situation

LuchaBlog also noted that there are apparently issues between Andrade and AAA over a canceled booking that wasn’t communicated properly that cost him an opportunity (and money) to work somewhere else. Andrade deleted a tweet replying to Konnan who tweeted the following:

At this point, the issue won’t affect FTR who are the current AAA Tag Team Champions. The creative direction appears to be a three-way with Roppongi Vice and new IWGP Tag Team Champions Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb at the Sunday, June 26th PPV. The AAA titles haven’t been mentioned in the buildup.

Zack Sabre Jr. challenges Bryan Danielson for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

Posted on by Ian Carey

Zack Sabre Jr. wants to face Bryan Danielson at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. 

ZSJ called out Danielson in a backstage promo following his match at NJPW Dominion on Sunday. 

“American Dragon, can you take some time out of your busy golfing schedule at the Blackpool Country Club to find out who the best technical wrestler in the world is? But I’ll tell you now, darling, it’s f—ing me,” ZSJ said. 

Danielson recently mentioned wanting to face ZSJ as well during an interview with Sports Illustrated. 

“I’m thinking about Zack Sabre Jr. and wrestling him to see who is the best technical wrestler in the world,” he said. “We have two very different styles of technical wrestling. We wrestled in 2008, and he was just a kid, but I was super impressed with him then. He’s grown into this amazing wrestler, and I don’t ever recall seeing anyone wrestle with his technique.”

Danielson and ZSJ are the only two wrestlers since 2004 to win the Bryan Danielson/Best Technical Wrestler Award in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards. Danielson won the award every year from 2005 until 2013. It was then named after him in 2016. ZSJ won the award consecutively from 2014 until 2020. Danielson then claimed the award for a tenth time last year.