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Despite his best efforts, “Hangman” Adam Page just couldn’t get himself a singles match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at AEW‘s Forbidden Door. He tried asking for a match versus Kazuchika Okada, then asked for one against Jay White, who beat “The Rainmaker” for the belt at NJPW Dominion, and even after taking a […]

After watching along live as “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii secured the third spot in the four-way bout to decide on the inaugural All-Atlantic Championship of AEW – or, more realistically, watching a replay of the Japanese-held event the next morning – there was one qualifying match left for the final spot in the match […]

The Bullet Club and The Young Bucks; the wrestling equivalent of peanut butter and chocolate. On their own, both are great; peanut butter is one of the best flavors ever created, and as for chocolate? Well, you can have chocolate on its own or with just about anything else, and it remains good. So naturally, […]

When news broke that there was a Bryan Danielson speaking segment scheduled for this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite, it left more than a few fans worried about what he had to say. Was “The American Dragon” going to announce his opponent at Forbidden Door? Or would he instead inform fans that he’s just too […]

When Adam Cole made his AEW debut at the end of All Out 2021, his arrival was met with near-universal acclaim. Fresh off a fantastic NXT run capstone-d by a best two-out-of-three-falls match at NXT TakeOver: 36 against long-time Undisputed Era friend/foe Kyle O’Riley, Cole emerged alongside his former Bullet Club friends as a galavanting […]

In case you haven’t heard, “Hangman” Adam Page still doesn’t have a match at AEW‘s Forbidden Door. After weeks of openly pining for a spot on the Pay-Per-View in a match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – a belt he has yet to hold in his career up to this point – Page was […]

In case you haven’t noticed, Forbidden Door is right around the corner, and one of the hottest acts in AEW, nay, all of professional wrestling, The Young Bucks, do not yet have a match booked for the Pay-Per-View. Call it an understandable byproduct of their feud with the Hardy Boys, or the logical conclusion considering […]

Despite the event officially being one week away, the entire AEW x NJPW card for Forbidden Door still hasn’t been fully released. The Young Bucks, fresh off of their tag team championship win over Jurassic Express, still don’t have an opponent, neither does Bryan Danielson and after spurning both Adam Page and Adam Cole in […]

Ace Austin is not an announced performer for the AEW/New Japan Pro Wrestling co-promotional event Forbidden Door. He isn’t officially a member of either promotion, and unless he signs a deal in the next dozen or so days, it’s generally assumed that he won’t be wrestling on what could be one of the biggest independent […]

For the last month, The United Empire of NJPW has been running rampant on AEW television. Fans have watched Will Ospreay interrupt segments between FTR and Trent Beretta, watched Aussie Open throw down against FTR and Beretta alongside Ospreay, and even watched Ospreay take care of business against Dax Harwood in a segment that ended […]

As AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Forbidden Door approaches, the first step in finding out who will represent NJPW in the All-Atlantic Championship four-way match will take place at Korakuen Hall tomorrow. That’s right; while the final AEW competitor will not be decided until this Wednesday when Malakai Black takes on Penta Oscuro in […]

The AEW mid-card is absolutely loaded. It has former champions, promising young upstarts, and a performer by the name of Wardlow who has openly declared his desire to run through whoever gets in his way in the relentless pursuit of the TNT Championship. And yet, just because AEW has more performers than spots doesn’t mean […]

Two new matches have been made official for the AEW and NJPW pay-per-view Forbidden Door. According to Fightful, New Japan’s Will Ospreay will take on returning AEW star Orange Cassidy at the show. Ospreay recently defeated SANADA at NJPW Dominion at Osaka Jo Hall to win the vacated IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. Cassidy, meanwhile, […]

It’s here; it’s finally here: NJPW has announced the participants in the 2022 G1 Climax, and it features a certain member of the AEW roster that should get fans hyped for the tournament indeed. No, it’s not Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, or any member of The Elite – much to the chagrin of fans the […]

While AEW and NJPW’s joint event Forbidden Door has already announced and teased a multitude of dream matches, it would appear that fans will have to take at least a couple of names off of their fantasy bookings. After an early morning tweet from Andrade El Idolo, seemingly sarcastically thanking Lucha promotions CMLL and AAA […]

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Cody Rhodes was a full-time wrestler and EVP of AEW. It all started well enough, with Rhodes and his Elite faction positioned as the babyface foils to Chris Jericho’s villainous Inner Circle but after a self-imposed stipulation that would prevent the well-traveled hero from ever challenging […]

As the road towards Forbidden Door, the cross-promotional Pay-Per-View between AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, inches closer and closer with each passing day, wrestlers in both promotions are scrambling to find opponents for what should be one of the most loaded cards in recent memory. Jon Moxley has a bout set with Hiroshi Tanahashi, […]

Heading into Forbidden Door, there were two marquee matches that rose above the rest: Jon Moxley versus Hiroshi Tanahashi – which has now been confirmed – and “Hangman” Adam Page versus Kazuchika Okada versus maybe Adam Cole for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The latter match, initially proposed by Page following his win over David […]

While his Best Friend Trent Beretta continues to feud with Will Ospreay, Chuck Taylor has been notably absent from AEW television. Since securing a win over The WorkHorseman on AEW Dark Elevation back in March, Beretta has bounced around the AEW roster in a variety of different performance configurations, from losing to Samoa Joe for […]

The Forbidden Door is opening once again. After years of one-offs and short stints of visiting wrestlers, AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling will have their joint, very appropriately-named June Pay-Per-View in Chicago. Despite a string of injuries on AEW’s side of the card, this event should have plenty of dream matches and opportunities to […]

Fresh off an impressive showing in a trios loss to Trent Beretta and FTR on AEW Rampage alongside his fellow United Empire stablemates Aussie Open, Will Ospreay is set to compete with Sanada for the now-vacant New Japan Pro Wrestling US Title at NJPW Dominion this weekend. Vacant, you say? Didn’t Juice Robinson win that […]

After literal days of anticipation, Will Ospreay and his United Empire stablemates, Aussie Open, officially made their debut in a fully sanctioned wrestling match on AEW television. That’s right, after charging the ring to attack the unlikely trio of Trent Beretta and FTR on Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite, Rampage viewers were treated to an awesome […]

As the biggest Pay-Per-View of the summer, Forbidden Door, rapidly approaches, fans of AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling are frantically fantasy booking their dream matches. Could we finally see FTR versus Aussie Open? Or how about Will Ospreay wrestle someone like Miro, Wardlow, or Orange Cassidy? Will G.OD. make their AEW debut versus the […]