AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, Monday June 26th 2023, 10am AEST

[Cleavy]

Zero Hour pre-show 9am, main card 10am

main card:

• Kazuchika Okada vs. Bryan Danielson
• Kenny Omega (c) vs Will Ospreay (IWGP United States Championship)
• SANADA (c) vs Jungle Boy (IWGP World Heavyweight title)
• MJF (c) Hiroshi Tanahashi (AEW World Championship)
• Toni Storm (c) vs Willow Nightingale (AEW Women's Championship)
• Orange Cassidy (c) vs Daniel Garcia vs Zack Sabre Jr. vs Katsyuori Shibata (AEW International title)
• Eddie Kingston, Tomohiro Ishii, Young Bucks & Adam Page vs Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Shota Umino & Konosuke Takeshita
• Sting, Darby Allin & Tetsuya Naito vs Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara
• CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima (Owen Hart Foundation tournament)
• Adam Cole vs 'Filthy' Tom Lawlor

Zero Hour:

• Athena vs. Billie Starks (Owen Hart Foundation tournament)
• El Phantasmo vs Stu Grayson
• United Empire (TJP, Jeff Cobb & Kyle Fletcher) vs Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI
• Mogul Embassy (Swerve Strickland, Toa Liona & Kaun) vs Trent Beretta, Rocky Romero & El Desperado

 

[Colonial]

Great card.

 

[mickelboy182]

Bummed I couldn't swing WFH on Monday, this is going to be epic. So much to look forward to.

 

[Nugett]

Looks like a good card.

 

[RossFC]

 

[RossFC]

 

[Cleavy]

Adam Cole off the show due to illness, match vs Filthy Tom Lawlor cancelled.

 

[Ry009]

That sucks, was looking forward to that too. Hope it's not reoccurrence of his concussion issues.

 

[Nugett]

That sucks, was looking forward to that too. Hope it's not reoccurrence of his concussion issues.

Illness sounds more like the flu.

 

[Nicho50]

Punk getting roasted by the crowd.

 

[Ry009]

Punk getting roasted by the crowd.

A nice 50/50 from the crowd. Great that he's leaning into being a heel too.

Great match as well. Haven't seen much of Kojima but he's great.

 

[Ry009]

Final Countdown.... nice!

 

[mickelboy182]

Can't wait to watch this, long may these continue.

 

[RossFC]

**** I love pro-wrestling.

 

[Mostyn]

No one talking about that fantastic PPV?

Ospreay and Omega was amazing.

 

[Ry009]

Seriously should run back Kenny/Osprey and Danielson/Okada at Wembley. Thats stadium level stuff. Lived up to the hype.

 

[RossFC]

MJF vs Tanahashi was a great opener. I'd say 25% were cheering MJF, but crowd were right behind Tanahashi.
CM Punk getting booed again, and then him doing the Hogan taunt and leg drop was hilarious. Kojima's elbow drop hit him right in the nuts as well haha.
4 way International title match was great, Garcia's taunt reminds me of Alex Wright for some reason. I wonder who will finally dethrone Cassidy.
Jungle Boy was booed on Rampage and they've pulled the trigger on his heel turn, so I guess he feuds with Hook over the FTW title?
Great 10 man tag. Eddie Kingston the added wrinkle in the match, not really wanting to fight Mox, and even stopping him from getting hit at one point.
Crowd right behind Willow Nightingale but she was never going to win.
Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay was an absolute classic.
Sammy Guevara needs to dial back someone of the moves he does, I thought he f'd up Sting at one point.
As for the main event, was actually hoping that Okada would get the dub. Perhaps Danielson can go to Wrestle Kingdom in Jan 2024 for a rematch?

 

[RossFC]

Adam Cole off the show due to illness, match vs Filthy Tom Lawlor cancelled.

This show had plenty of matches already, book it for TV when Cole is better.

 

[JP Sauce]

Seriously should run back Kenny/Osprey and Danielson/Okada at Wembley. Thats stadium level stuff. Lived up to the hype.

Danielson may have fractured his arm during the match, so not sure on his availability.

 

[Planet14]

Danielson may have fractured his arm during the match, so not sure on his availability.

Two month, so plenty of time to heel. Just don’t expect him to wrestle before then, so he won’t be in Blood and Guts in Boston in July.

 

[Planet14]

No one talking about that fantastic PPV?

Ospreay and Omega was amazing.

Probably the best AEW show to date, which is high praise. Only question mark is how much of the main was impacted by the injury. Did not quite reach expectations, but who knows how the plan changed to compensate?

 

[RossFC]

This was posted during his match.

 

[RossFC]

Sounds like Danielson using Final Countdown is a once off. The price per play is extremely expensive.

 

[Gak Attack]

Sounds like Danielson using Final Countdown is a once off. The price per play is extremely expensive.

Isn't it like $250k or something? Ridiculous.

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

Well, holy shit that’s how you do a PPV