We will have…
spoiler
Samoa Joe HOOK, and Shibata challenging Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith to a trios match. Just what Forbidden Door needed.
We will have…
Samoa Joe HOOK, and Shibata challenging Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith to a trios match. Just what Forbidden Door needed.
Seems like there’s a lot of purely AEW matches for Forbidden Door this year.
Yup…
Edit: All I want out of Forbidden Door is X number of matches where it’s AEW vs NJPW/Stardom. I don’t care if the card ends up with 1 singles match and 9 8-man tags, just give me AEW vs NJPW/Stardom.
Don’t bring in other companies. Don’t fill the card with Collision-filler. I have no hate for CMLL but give them their own Forbidden Door show where it’s AEW vs CMLL people per above, and stop shoving in filler you (TK) forgot to book on TV.
This year we have (so far):
Singles Match
Hechicero vs. MJF
Owen Hart Foundation 2024 Men’s Tournament Quarter Final Match
Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi
Singles Match
Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
AEW Women’s World Title Match
Toni Storm (w/Luther & Mariah May) © vs. Mina Shirakawa (w/Mariah May)
AEW TNT Title Ladder Match (vakant)
Mark Briscoe vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Lio Rush vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin vs. ???
AEW TBS Title / NJPW STRONG Women’s Title Match
Mercedes Mone © vs. Stephanie Vaquer ©
IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Jon Moxley © vs. Tetsuya Naito
AEW World Title Match
Swerve Strickland (w/Prince Nana) © vs. Will Ospreay
(Edit: and the match I mentioned above with Jericho)
2 CMLL vs AEW
4 AEW vs NJPW/Stardom
3 AEW vs AEW
So CMLL gets 2 loses cause neither Hechicero nor Vaquer are gonna win.
3 AEW matches whose only tenuous grasp of the theme of ‘forbidden door’ is that Ospreay used to work for NJPW, Shibata used to work for NJPW, and in the other match you may have the mystery opponent be from NJPW/CMLL (tho they’re losing by default in that line up, and I’m not counting Lio Rush as an NJPW 'guy). Both great matches for a PPV. Both shit-poor matches for a Forbidden Door PPV.
4 AEW/NJPW-Stardom matches, all 4 of which will be bangers I am 100% sure.
Whereas they could have 4 multi-man/woman tag matches, 4+ singles, have them be all AEW vs NJPW-Stardom (or again all AEW vs CMLL on a different show) and at least I know I’d enjoy it more.
*stops yelling at clouds and eats his now soggy cheerios*
I don’t mind having CMLL involved (though I agree, a separate cross promotion show with then would be better), but I at least would want the show to be all interpromotional matches. Let’s face it, for those 3 AEW matches, the door ain’t that forbidden.
Yeah, zero matches should be on the card which are AEW vs AEW. 2 of them are fantastic sounding championship matches which could be done on any other PPV with zero issues and the 3rd is a Rampage piss match, I can name a dozen matches I’d rather see on Forbidden Door and that includes Saki Kashima vs Serpentico for no fucking reason other than I’d be funny as shit to see Serpento’s reaction to her rolling him up for the pin 15 seconds into a match.