Have been you one of many many AEW, NJPW, or CMLL followers Sunday night time’s (June 30) Forbidden Door pay-per-view card and questioning why it had a comparatively gentle load of solely 13 matches? Effectively, AEW President Tony Khan has acquired you lined. He introduced a 14th match for the lineup, with this new 4-way tag crew match happening on the Zero Hour pre-show.
Will probably be Home of Black (Malakai Black & Brody King) vs. Personal Occasion vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Sturdy vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii. This at the very least solutions the query of why NJPW stars Kidd and Ishii all of the sudden 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 Sturdy 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 Event first spherical match
• The Studying Tree (Chris Jericho & Huge 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 Could vs. Saraya in a Girls’s Owen Hart Event first spherical match (pre-show)
• Home of Black vs. Personal Occasion vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Sturdy (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 night time, Cagesiders?