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AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Established in 2022, it is held annually during the summer and features direct competition between wrestlers from the two promotions.
In February 2021, the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) started a partnership with the Japanese promotion, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). [3] After a year of AEW and NJPW wrestlers appearing on each other's shows, the two companies co-promoted a pay-per-view (PPV) event titled Forbidden Door in June 2022. [4]
The next match was a Winner Takes All match for both the AEW TBS Championship and NJPW Strong Women's Championship between Mercedes Moné (TBS) and CMLL's Stephanie Vaquer (NJPW). In the opening stages, Moné performed a meteora from the middle rope and attempted a swinging DDT on the outside, but Vaquer blocked it and threw her into the LED board.
AEW began readmitting a limited number of fans in August 2020 and then ran full capacity shows in May 2021 before the promotion returned to live touring in mid-July. In June 2022, AEW added a fifth PPV event to its yearly lineup with Forbidden Door, a co-promoted event with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and then further expanded its PPV event ...
On December 1, 2014, NJPW and its minority owner TV Asahi announced it as a new worldwide streaming site for the promotion's events. [4] All major NJPW events air live on the service, which also features matches from the promotion's archives, dating back to 1972. [5]
On the April 20 episode of Dynamite, AEW President Tony Khan introduced NJPW President Takami Ohbari to make a major announcement regarding their respective companies. They were interrupted by AEW wrestler Adam Cole , who officially announced that a co-promoted event titled Forbidden Door would be held on June 26 at the United Center in Chicago ...
The match will be Omega's first with NJPW since Wrestle Kingdom 13 in January 2019, after which he left Japan for AEW. AEW's FTR will also be on the card, defending their IWGP Tag Team ...
As part of NJPW's expansion into the United States, the series would be produced by NJoA. [2] On January 30, 2023, NJPW announced that all of the promotion's future American events would be branded under the "Strong" name. NJoA PPVs have since aired under the NJPW Strong Live banner, and are later presented as part of the NJPW Strong on Demand ...