AEW & New Japan host their first joint PPV, an event several months in the making, tonight in Forbidden Door. All but one match features wrestlers from each promotion competing against each other, with a number of title matches set as well. New Japan lost a couple of participants the last few days as Tomohiro Ishii was removed due to injury while Hiromu Takahashi was unable to travel due to illness (fever) while Bryan Danielson was not cleared to compete, denying him a match against Zack Sabre Jr. This resulted in Clark Connors being added to the AEW All-Atlantic Title 4-way as a replacement and a planned 8-man tag match becoming a 6-man instead. The main event will be Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Championship.
Today’s event will be held at United Center in Chicago and can be watched LIVE on PPV via participating cable/satellite providers and Bleacher Report in the US, ppv.com in Canada ONLY, New Japan World in Japan ONLY and FITE elsewhere for $49.99 except in Japan, where it is 4980 yen. If you go the Bleacher Report route, you get the live stream and then on demand replays for 72 hours after a 24 hour wait. A FREE pre-show will stream on YouTube 1 hour before the main show. A post-event media scrum on YouTube is currently scheduled for 12:30 AM ET/9:30 PM PT indicating the PPV’s likely runtime will be in the neighborhood of 5 hours total.
Tonight’s current lineup:
Pre-show:
Gunn Club & Max Caster vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin & Yuya Uemura
Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. QT Marshall & Aaron Solo
PPV:
The Young Bucks & El Phantasmo vs. Darby Allin, Sting & Shingo Takagi
Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino
AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa vs. Toni Storm for the title
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan vs. ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR and Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero in a 3-way for BOTH titles
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy for the title
Malakai Black vs. Miro, Pac & Clark Connors in a 4-way for the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada, Adam Cole & Adam Page in a 4-way for the title
Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Championship
Updates below will begin at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Click below to watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube at that time:
Pre-show:
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI beat QT Marshall & Aaron Solo. Goto pinned Solo after GTW.
Lance Archer beat Nick Comoroto..
Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. Lee pinned Kanemaru after a fireman’s carry powerbomb.
Gunn Club & Max Caster vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin & Yuya Uemura. Caster pinned DKC after Mic Drop. Austin & Colten Gunn were immediately taken away from the match at the start by Danhausen.
PPV:
Chris Jericho, Minoru SUzuki & Sammy Guevara beat Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Unimo. Jericho pinned Umino after Judas Effect.
ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan and Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero in a 3-way, when Dax Harwood pinned Romero, to retain the ROH titles and win the IWGP titles. FTR become the 96th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
Pac beat Miro, Malakai Black & Clark Connors in a 4-way by beating Connors to become the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion.
Sting, Darby Allin & Shingo Takagi beat The Young Bucks & El Phantasmo. Takagi pinned Phantasmo after Last of the Dragon.
AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa beat Toni Storm to retain the title.
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay beat Orange Cassidy to retain the title. V1 for Ospreay.
TBA beat Zack Sabre Jr. TBA was a replacement for Bryan Danielson, and it was Claudio Castagnoli (formerly Cesaro in WWE).
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White beat Kazuchika Okada, Adam Cole & Adam Page in a 4-way by pinning Cole to retain the title. V1 for White.
Main Event: Jon Moxley beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the Interim AEW World Champion.
End Show.
Post-event media scrum has been tentatively moved up to 12:15 AM ET/9:15 PM PT. Click below to watch on YouTube after the PPV:
