AEW (and friends) Forbidden Door, Monday 1st July 2024, 10am AEST (Zero Hour at 8:30am)

[fuey]

Danielson/Takagi has been fn fanastic so far...

 

[Ry009]

Ospreay is great, but geez Danielson is BITW IMO.

Great match.

 

[Planet14]

First couple of matches were good, but just good. Since then though, woof, great stuff from the Goat and Shingo, the women and Orange and ZSJr.

 

[Ry009]

Good ladder match. Predictable but unfortunate result. But yeah - lost opportunity with Takeshita.

Perry works better as the smarmy chickenshit heel like the Bucks, but they're putting him over way too strong IMO.

 

[Planet14]

But yeah - lost opportunity with Takeshita.

I’m team Takeshita, but I knew he wouldn’t win because he is going to be in Japan for weeks for G1 and not on AEW TV. Shame.

 

[burge13]

Have a drink every time Taz says "Jones". So weird

 

[fuey]

Love the Hayabusa/Ospreay comparison

 

[Ry009]

Awesome match and finish. Glad they didn't do the dirty on Swerve.

Be interesting if they go Swerve/Will or Swerve/MJF for All In. Can't go wrong either way as both have backstory.

 

[burge13]

Awesome match and finish. Glad they didn't do the dirty on Swerve.

Be interesting if they go Swerve/Will or Swerve/MJF for All In. Can't go wrong either way as both have backstory.

Triple threat

 

[RossFC]

 

[RossFC]

Brody King good in the 4 way tag.
Cool that Saraya put over Mariah May.
Trios tag at the end of the pre-season was great.

As for the main card.
Hechicero is awesome hope to see more of him.
Danielson and Shingo very good.
Toni Storm and Mina good, lol at Nigel crying at the end of it.
Glad ZSJ got the win over Orange Cassidy.
Same goes with Joe/Hook/Shibata beating The Learning Tree, would love to see a Joe vs Cobb match.
Ladder match was great, Happy to see Jack Perry win the title, hopefully he keeps the heat going there.
lol at the Celtics fan pretty much causing Boston's Mone to get booed louder, set up a massive pop for returning Britt Baker.
Good to see Naito win the IWGP World Title bringing it back to New Japan, hope New Japan lets him hold it until Wrestle Kingdom, give him a proper run.
Swerve vs Ospreay a great match, and I'm actually shocked Swerve retained, thought for sure Ospreay was gonna go into Wembley as World Champ, or at least main eventing the show.

 

[RossFC]

 

[Cleavy]

Have a drink every time Taz says "Jones". So weird

"Alcoholic Jones" over here, but I disgress...

 

[Cleavy]

Might be just me (or the match layout) but I felt that on both her PPVs so far, Mercedes' opponent has outshone her.

 

[RossFC]

 

[RossFC]

Toni Storm entertaining in the scrum again.

 

[Cleavy]

Toni Storm entertaining in the scrum again.

The Club Venus dance!

 

[Gak Attack]

Great to have Britt back, she looks great physically too, clearly been putting in some work. Women's division finally seems in a pretty good spot with Hayter still to return.

 

[Ry009]

Great to have Britt back, she looks great physically too, clearly been putting in some work. Women's division finally seems in a pretty good spot with Hayter still to return.

Yeah think she was doing a fair bit of work with DDP last few months.

Hayter is one of the best in the world at the moment. Really deserves a big moment at Wembley.

 

[Cleavy]

I hope a potential Britt-Mercedes match is decent, because I need some convincing

 

[Cleavy]

 

[Cleavy]

here's the Meltzer ratings for bitching:

• Kyle Fletcher vs. Serpentico : 1
• Four-Way Tag Team Match : 3.25
• Willow & Tam vs. Statlander & Momo : 3.5
• Mariah May vs. Saraya : 2
• Mistico & Lucha Bros vs. LIJ : 4.25
• MJF vs. Hechicero : 3.25
• The Elite vs. Scissor Ace : 3.75
• Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi : 4.75
• Toni Storm vs. Mina Shirakawa : 4
• Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Orange Cassidy : 4.5
• HOOK, Shibata & Joe vs. Learning Tree : 3.25
• TNT Championship Ladder Match : 4.5
• Mercedes Moné vs. Stephanie Vaquer : 4
• Tetsuya Naito vs. Jon Moxley : 3
• Swerve Strickland vs. Will Ospreay : 5.5

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personally I didn't think Swerve/Ospreay was that high. people are saying that there's no way that Mariah/Saraya was a full star worse than Mox/Naito. YMMV.

 

[Blackhawk42]

Awesome match and finish. Glad they didn't do the dirty on Swerve.

Be interesting if they go Swerve/Will or Swerve/MJF for All In. Can't go wrong either way as both have backstory.

Swerve and Hangman will bring their story to a conclusion in the main event. Could actually be reward for how hot that feud was over the past 12 months. Wouldn't be surprised to see a stipulation as well. Maybe 2 out of 3 falls to really put an exclamation mark on it.

MJF vs Ospreay will be the other 'main event'

 

[Cleavy]

Swerve and Hangman will bring their story to a conclusion in the main event. Could actually be reward for how hot that feud was over the past 12 months. Wouldn't be surprised to see a stipulation as well. Maybe 2 out of 3 falls to really put an exclamation mark on it.

MJF vs Ospreay will be the other 'main event'

2 out of 3 falls matches suck.

 

[Ry009]

Swerve and Hangman will bring their story to a conclusion in the main event. Could actually be reward for how hot that feud was over the past 12 months. Wouldn't be surprised to see a stipulation as well. Maybe 2 out of 3 falls to really put an exclamation mark on it.

MJF vs Ospreay will be the other 'main event'

It was great although if they are going with Hangman for the All-In ME, should have saved the Texas Deathmatch as it seemed like the logical conclusion, should have been an exclamation enough.