Tag Archives: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy took part in the post-AEW Double or Nothing media scrum and discussed several topics, including a potential opponent for the AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door event. Issuing a challenge to NJPW WORLD Television Champion, Orange Cassidy stated, “If you know me, I just never want to wrestle, I wrestle when  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling sent out the following: AEW Announces Massive Six-Show Summer Canadian Tour Kicking off with the Return of Forbidden Door in Toronto, AEW Will Host Shows in Three Provinces across June and July March 15, 2023 – AEW CEO, GM and Head of Creative Tony Khan today announced that AEW will begin a  Continue Reading »

The second All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling: Forbidden Door II event is listed to take place on June 24th, 2023, according to Spectrum Cable, with the event priced at $49.99. The event is listed among other upcoming events including WWE: WrestleMania 39 Part 1 (priced at $29.99), WWE: WrestleMania 39 Part 2  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan revealed recently on his official Twitter account that last Sunday’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event did over $5 million on pay-per-view. Additionally, Khan revealed that the event also did over $1 million in ticket sales. Thank you to everyone, especially wrestling fans around the world, who made last  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling star Kazuchika Okada took part in the post-AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door media scrum and discussed his appearance at the event, the crowd in Chicago and more. Okada, who largely spoke through translator Chris Charlton, said that the crowd in Chicago were great and that he hopes that as the restrictions  Continue Reading »

Newly-signed All Elite Wrestling star Claudio Castagnoli (the former Cesaro in WWE) took part in the post-AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door media scrum and discussed his surprise appearance, potential opponents and more. Castagnoli stated that his familiarity with a large portion of the All Elite Wrestling roster and the circumstances to sign made it the  Continue Reading »

Newly-crowned IWGP Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) took part in the post-AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door media scrum and discussed their title victory, plans to defend the titles in Japan and more. Harwood and Wheeler said that they have had their eyes on defending the titles in Japan for a while  Continue Reading »

Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley took part in the post-AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door media scrum and discussed his match against Hiroshi Tanahashi, as well as why he feels a joy in wrestling right now. “That feeling, when you’re doing what you were put on Earth to do, like the absolute pleasure of being  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling President and CEO Tony Khan took part in the post-AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door media scrum and discussed several topics, including the success of the show, the debut of Claudio Castagnoli (fka Cesaro in WWE) and more. Khan said that anything over 100,000 worldwide pay-per-view buys is what he would consider a  Continue Reading »

The following results are from a recent All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling co-promoted event. The event took place on June 26th, 2022 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois and aired live on Bleacher Report and FITE TV. AEW x NJPW: FORBIDDEN DOOR ~ THE BUY-IN (PRE-SHOW) Tag Team Match Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling crowned the Interim AEW World Champion during tonight’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois as Jon Moxley defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the interim Champion. Earlier in the night, FTR defeated The United Empire and Roppongi Vice to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions,  Continue Reading »

Claudio Castagnoli, the former Cesaro in WWE, made his All Elite Wrestling debut during tonight’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event as the mystery opponent for Zack Sabre Jr., personally chosen by Bryan Danielson. Castagnoli will be a member of the Blackpool Combat Club going forward alongside Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Wheeler YUTA and William  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling crowned the first-ever AEW All-Atlantic Champion during tonight’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois as PAC defeated Clark Connors, Malakai Black and Miro to become the inaugural Champion. Earlier in the night, FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) defeated The United Empire (Jeff Cobb &  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling crowned new IWGP Tag Team Champions during tonight’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois as FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) defeated The United Empire (Jeff Cobb & The Great-O-Khan) and Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero & Beretta) in a Winner Takes All Match for  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling announced today that Hiromu Takahashi is off tomorrow night’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event due to a fever and can’t travel to America to compete. The originally planned 8 Man Tag Team Match at the event will now see BULLET CLUB (Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson & El Phantasmo) (w/Hikuleo) face off  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling have announced that Swerve In Our Glory (Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee) will face off against Suzuki-gun’s Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado as part of tomorrow night’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door: The Buy-In. Additionally, The Factory (QT Marshall & Aaron Solo) will face off against CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto). The  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling revealed during this week’s episode of AEW Rampage that the match featuring Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler YUTA & Shota Umino will now have a stipulation added to the match that will affect the Blood And Guts episode of AEW Dynamite this Wednesday. The winning team  Continue Reading »

In a post on his official Twitter account, Kevin Kelly revealed that he will be part of the commentary team for this Sunday’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. As of writing it is unconfirmed as to who will make up the full commentary team for the event.  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling sent out the following: Tomohiro Ishii Injured; Clark Connors steps in AEW 4 Way Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Tomohiro Ishii, who was scheduled to compete on June 26 at AEWxNJPW Presents Forbidden Door, has sustained a left knee injury and is not medically cleared to compete. We apologise  Continue Reading »

All Elite Wrestling announced during tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite that the following matches will take place as part of this Sunday’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Singles Match To Determine The Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi. Fatal Four Way Match For The  Continue Reading »