Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including Bryan Danielson, all the injuries in AEW, Vince and John Lauranitis, the booking leading to Forbidden Door, Dave Hebner and Tim White, Slammiversary thoughts and so much more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
Tag: Forbidden Door
Wrestling Observer Live: AEW injuries, Forbidden Door, Danielson, Hunter back, NXT 2.0 review, more!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including Bryan Danielson, tons of injuries in AEW, Dynamite tonight with more Forbidden Door matches, RAW huge ratings, Hunter back to NXT, NXT 2.0 review and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
AEW Forbidden Door notes: Jay White’s opponent, Countdown show, Dynamite
During his weekly appearance on Busted Open Radio, AEW head Tony Khan said the Forbidden Door opponent for IWGP Champion Jay White will be revealed on tonight’s Dynamite.
Last week after attacking Hangman Page as Adam Cole gleefully looked on, White said he wouldn’t be defending the title against Page or Cole which then made Cole dismayed.
White recently defeated Okada for the title. Cole said in a promo last week that the former champion will not be on Sunday’s pay-per-view, but it’s unclear if that was storyline or not.
More matches, more NJPW talent tonight
Khan also said more matches will be announced for Sunday’s PPV on tonight’s Dynamite which will also feature more NJPW talent on AEW TV than fans have seen thus far.
Countdown show time & network
Khan said the countdown show for Sunday’s PPV will air at 11 PM Eastern following Friday’s Rampage and will feature the usual video packages to help better introduce fans to NJPW stars who they might not otherwise be familiar with.
Here’s the current card for Sunday:
- 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
Wrestling Observer Live: Prichard takes another role, RAW report, Bryan Danielson, more!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including the weekly RAW report, Bryan Danielson update, Forbidden Door, Bruce Prichard taking over another job, and tons more. A fun show as always and we apologize for the audio delay!
New participant confirmed for AEW All-Atlantic title match at Forbidden Door
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
AEW All-Atlantic title qualifying match set for New Japan Road
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
ROH & IWGP Tag Team title match added to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
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
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
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
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
Wrestling Observer Live: Dynamite preview, Jericho hair, Forbidden Door, NXT 2.0 review!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including AEW Dynamite tonight, the Jericho hair match, Forbidden Door, NXT 2.0 review and thoughts on the product of late, questions and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
AEW’s Tony Khan stopped Tanahashi vs. Moxley from happening ‘many times’
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.
Wrestling Observer Radio: Jeff Hardy arrest, Paige future, RAW report, Dominion, Forbidden Door, more!
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Jeff Hardy’s DUI, AEW’s so far non-reaction to it, Paige’s future, Muto’s upcoming retirement, the All Atlantic Tournament update, New Japan Dominion top matches, ratings, RAW report from Monday night and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
Timestamps:
Start: Jeff Hardy arrested for DUI
10:20: WWE not renewing Paige’s contract
12:38: Keiji Mutoh announces retirement for next spring
17:23: NJPW announces details for their AEW All-Atlantic title qualifier match
20:30: Ratings
23:02: Speedball Mike Bailey vs. Konosuke Takeshita
26:20: The last two matches of Dominion
35:35: Raw report
54:48: NXT and AEW Dynamite lineups (contains NXT spoilers)
Andrade, Lucha Bros not appearing at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
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:
this was an incorrect tweet https://t.co/UigGGR4BgR
— luchablog (@luchablog) June 13, 2022
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:
We have nothing to do with NJ or. CMLL arcane decisions
— Konnan (@Konnan5150) June 13, 2022
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.
Interim AEW World Championship match set for Forbidden Door
Jon Moxley’s opponent in the interim AEW World Championship match at Forbidden Door is set following today’s NJPW Dominion show.
Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Hirooki Goto to advance in the eliminator tournament to crown an interim AEW World Champion at Dominion, and will now face Jon Moxley in Chicago on June 26 at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.
Tanahashi appeared on the June 1 AEW Dynamite and confronted CM Punk, seemingly setting up Punk vs. Tanahashi in an AEW World title match in Chicago. Punk then went on the shelf with an injury, and underwent surgery this past week.
An eliminator tournament was set, with Jon Moxley taking on a battle royal winner on the June 8 Dynamite, and Tanahashi facing Goto at Dominion. Moxley defeated battle royal winner Kyle O’Reilly, and now Tanahashi has defeated Goto to set the first official bout for Forbidden Door.
The first-ever AEW All-Atlantic Champion will also be crowned at Forbidden Door, with a four-way tournament final the only other match announced for the event.
AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —
- Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
- AEW All-Atlantic Championship tournament final