Forbidden Door is officially over. AEW and NJPW officially pulled it off and while the event didn't go on without a hitch, as both Dax Harwood and Adam Cole suffered injuries during their matches, it's hard to call the show anything but a resounding success both in the ring and on the financial ledger.

Jon Moxley won the Interim AEW World Championship, Jay White retained the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, and “The Bastard” PAC ran the field to become the first-ever -winner of the All-Atlantic Championship.

Surely this was a card with a little something for everyone; an unannounced hoss fight between Lance Archer and Nick Comoroto, a certified spot-fest between the Jericho Appreciation Society plus Minoru Suzuki – yes, that actually happened – and the unlikely trio of Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta, and Shota Umino, the son of NJPW referee Red Shoes Umino, and even an incredible match between Will Ospreay and Orange Cassidy that might just get a few votes for Match of the Year in the Wrestling Observer's end-of-year poll.

And the best part of Forbidden Door? It set up more than a few interesting matches, interactions, and maybe even long-term feuds that will live on long after the United Center is cleaned up for the Stray Kids concert on July 1st.

3 feuds that picked up steam coming out of AEW x NJPW's Forbidden Door.

3. Adam Cole versus Jay White

Coming into Forbidden Door, Adam Cole wanted nothing more than to compete in a good old-fashioned test of strength between himself and his Bullet Club buddy Jay White. While White consistently turned down this request, embarrassing Cole on national television on multiple occasions in the process, the current holder of the Men's Owen Hart Cup belt still tried to broker a truce in his four-way bout with “King Switch,” “Hangman” Adam Page, and Kazuchika Okada, and work together to turn things into a two-on-one-on-one one instead of a free-for-all.

For a time it worked… at least until Cole turned on White with the fittingly named Backstabber and suddenly all heck broke loose. All four performers duked it out, with each playing through a greatest hits of their respective movesets, before Okada popped Cole's shoulder in an attempted Rainmaker and White audibled to the end of the match with a make-shift roll-up finish on his one-time buddy.

Will White attempt to justify his actions by citing Cole's injury? You bet. Will the Young Bucks and Kyle O'Riley, who mean-mugged White on their way to the ring, care? Probably not.

If White sticks around in America post-Forbidden Door, this feud could be a money angle, especially once Cole is able to return to the ring with a clean bill of health.

2. Billy Gunn and the Acclaimed versus The Gunn Club

When Billy Gunn introduced his sons, Austin and Colton, who are known collectively as The Gunn Club, to The Acclaimed, it was supposed to help the Sons of a Gun find direction, get on television, and maybe earn a little respect in AEW as a savvy, secure unit that needed to be taken seriously by the rest of the roster.

Instead, the younger Gunns continued to be goofballs, more concerned with getting on the mic and not being called the “Ass Boys” than actually picking up wins in the ring. This has led to Gunn favoring the duo of Max Caster and Anthony Bowens over his own children in promos/backstage segments, and more than a few occasions where he outright called Austin and Colton disappointments.

This disconnect came to a head during the AEW x NJPW Pre-Show, when after Danhausen delivered The Gunns a gift, the song “Ass Boys (Theme Song)” by Two Minutes To Late Night, and Colin Young, who plays drums in Brodie King's band God's Hate and has written music for the House of Black. This caused Austin and Colton to run off in either shame or a reckless pursuit of Danhausen and forced their father and Max Caster to wrestle a four-on-two match against four of the best prospects the NJPW LA Dojo had to offer.

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Buckle up folks; this might be the best feud in the history of AEW Dark and Dark Elevation.

1. Claudio Castagnoli versus Eddie Kingston

Come on, could any other feud top this list?

Claudio Castagnoli and Eddie Kingston hate each other, to the point where the “Mad King” suggested he would stab his long-time Chikara rival with a fork if he ever had to eat lunch with him, as per a very fun quote from Sean Ross Sapp. Whether Kingston and Castagnoli attempt to play nice at Blood and Guts for the sake of their mutual friend Jon Moxley or decide to become the first team in the match's history who care more about fighting each other than the team across the ring from them, it's clear the duo is running head first towards a confrontation at some point in the not-to-distant future.

The winner of it all? The fans both watching at home and in the Little Ceaser’s Arena in Detroit, Michigan.