AEW x NJPW - FORBIDDEN DOOR - 6/26/2022

[(BP)]

Hogan and Jeffrey Tambor in a scene together is like the diner scene in Heat for cancelled dudes. 

[EVA]

31 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

 

So where did King Cuerno end up? He was great in that promotion. 

It worked out okay for him.

[Curt McGirt]

Santos Escobar, right? Well shit.

[Kang]

Spoiler

I will be memeing Tana to win the Interim AEW World title.

 

[hobo joe]

All the people to put in match with Ospreay and you go with OC?

They better announce Danielson vs ZSJ soon

[Kang]

Might be turned into a tag match.

[Matt D]

1 minute ago, Blue Dragon said:

Might be turned into a tag match.

Danielson teaming with Cassidy would get me interested in this or any other PPV.

[EVA]

Oops. Wrong thread.

I would like to say that I called some kind of tag match with Mox teaming with his two sons way back when this was first announced. Too bad Punk got hurt and now it’s a tag with Eddie. Should still be fun though.

Edited June 16, 2022 by EVA

[Casey]

10 hours ago, hobo joe said:

All the people to put in match with Ospreay and you go with OC?

They better announce Danielson vs ZSJ soon

What’s wrong with OC versus Ospreay? Cassidy is more than capable of keeping up with him.

[Log]

There are obviously going to be some matches left off this show that we all want to see, but I'm hoping this show is the start of a relationship between the two companies (and any others like Impact) working together.  I'm just hoping that the end result of Forbidden Door is that AEW's people AND New Japan's people are happy with it and want to keep going.

[EVA]

As long as AEW doesn’t sneak Enzo on the show, it should be fine.

[EVA]

I do think there’s genuine reason to be concerned about Danielson, in general, and Danielson’s ability to make this show, specifically. This is two weeks now where he wasn’t even fit to fly out to the show.

[Craig H]

I'm not worried about Danielson. TK has never shied away from just leaving people at home if there was no real need to have them on the show. Plus, maybe he thought Danielson could use more than a couple weeks off.

[Gramsci]

I'm also worried about Danielson, but I want to think that if he wasn't ready to wrestle at Forbidden Door, Zack Sabre wouldn't have challenged him to a match.

[Kang]

6 matches booked so far for the show.

 

[EVA]

Last night’s angle makes me worry we might be getting a United Empire vs. FTR/Best Friends 8-man tag at the PPV. That would be a fun match but obviously a lot less intriguing than a tag title match.

[porksweats]

5 minutes ago, EVA said:

Last night’s angle makes me worry we might be getting a United Empire vs. FTR/Best Friends 8-man tag at the PPV. That would be a fun match but obviously a lot less intriguing than a tag title match.

Could be United Empire vs CHAOS (O.C, Roppongi Vice, Wheeler Yuta)

[Bill S. Preston ESQ.]

2 hours ago, porksweats said:

Could be United Empire vs CHAOS (O.C, Roppongi Vice, Wheeler Yuta)

O.C. has Osprey. I doubt it changes as it’s too great.

[Bill S. Preston ESQ.]

Switchblade vs Omega would be a good IWGP match. Not sure what Hangman or Cole would have but a Super Elite vs Bullet Club match could be worked out.

[John from Cincinnati]

7 minutes ago, Bill S. Preston ESQ. said:

Switchblade vs Omega would be a good IWGP match. 

Sure, but then either Omega's winning the belt or losing his first match back. And neither of those are likely to be on the table.

It also sounds like there's a ways to go till Omega's ready.

Edited June 16, 2022 by John from Cincinnati

[Salads]

Slowly sinking in that with a couple of weeks to go the dream AEW / NJPW show everyone wanted has a non-zero chance of not featuring Bryan, CM Punk, Omega, Ibushi, Okada or a top title match from either side. Setting my expectations to zero so it can only go up from here.

It's like Tony extended the olive branch across the Pacific but ended up catching whatever curse NJPW had during the pandemic that ensured nothing they had lined up went to plan.

 

[porksweats]

2 hours ago, Bill S. Preston ESQ. said:

O.C. has Osprey. I doubt it changes as it’s too great.

I was assuming Ospreay would be in this 4 on 4

[Curt McGirt]

We should have known that NJPW's tag booking would come into play here. It was inevitable. 

[sabremike]

10 hours ago, EVA said:

As long as AEW doesn’t sneak Enzo on the show, it should be fine.

What if it's a singles match against Suzuki?

[Belgian_Waffle]

4 hours ago, Salads said:

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It's like Tony extended the olive branch across the Pacific but ended up catching whatever curse NJPW had during the pandemic that ensured nothing they had lined up went to plan.

 

Except it's Tony so he extended it across *the Atlantic.