Had been you one of many many AEW, NJPW, or CMLL followers taking a look at Sunday evening’s (June 30) Forbidden Door pay-per-view card and questioning why it had a comparatively gentle load of solely 13 matches? Nicely, AEW President Tony Khan has acquired you lined. He introduced a 14th match for the lineup, with this new 4-way tag workforce match happening on the Zero Hour pre-show.
It is going to be Home of Black (Malakai Black & Brody King) vs. Personal Social gathering vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Robust vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii. This not less than solutions the query of why NJPW stars Kidd and Ishii instantly appeared on AEW tv this week.
That provides us the next 14 match card for Forbidden Door:
• Swerve Strickland (c) vs. Will Ospreay for the AEW World championship
• Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight title
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo in a Ladder Match for the vacant TNT title
• TBS champ Mercedes Moné vs. NJPW Robust Girls’s champ Stephanie Vaquer in a Title for Title match
• Timeless Toni Storm (c) vs. Mina Shirakawa for the AEW Girls’s World championship
• Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• MJF vs. Hechicero
• Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi in a Males’s Owen Hart Match first spherical match
• The Studying Tree (Chris Jericho & Large Invoice) and Jeff Cobb vs. Samoa Joe, Hook & Katsuyori Shibata
• The Elite (The Younger Bucks & Kazuchika Okada) vs. The Acclaimed & Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano (pre-show)
• Mistico, Rey Fenix, & Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Titan, Yota Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi (pre-show)
• Mariah Might vs. Saraya in a Girls’s Owen Hart Match first spherical match (pre-show)
• Home of Black vs. Personal Social gathering vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Robust (pre-show)
That is most likely the ultimate card, however there’s nonetheless technically time left on the clock so as to add a fifteenth match sooner or later on Sunday.
Do you propose to observe all 14 matches on Sunday evening, Cagesiders?
