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AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 Discussion Thread (Spoilers) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by GeekFTW@lemmy.zip to c/squaredcircle@lemmy.zip

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Tonight, AEW/NJPW brings us Forbidden Door, live from The O2 in London, England!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Zero Hour:

Six Man Tag Team Match
Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) & Ricochet vs. JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & Mike Bailey) & Michael Oku

Eight Man Tag Team Match
Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, Queen Aminata & Willow Nightingale vs. Triangle Of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue & Thekla) & Megan Bayne (w/Penelope Ford)

Eight Man Tag Team Match
Paragon (Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong), El Desperado & Yuya Uemura vs. CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush) & The Don Callis Family (Hechicero & Josh Alexander)

AEW World Trios Title Match
The Opps (Katsuyori Shibata, Powerhouse Hobbs & Samoa Joe) (c) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney & Robbie X)

Main Show:

Tag Team Match
Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. The Matriarchy (Killswitch & Kip Sabian) (w/Mother Wayne)

AEW TNT Title Match
Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi

AEW TBS Title Four Way Match
Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Alex Windsor vs. Persephone vs. Bozilla

AEW World Tag Team Title Three Way Elimination Match
The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin) (c) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (w/Stokely) vs. Brodido (Bandido & Brody King)

AEW Unified Title / AEW Continental Title / AEW International Title Match
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Swerve Strickland

AEW Women's World Title Match
Toni Storm (c) vs. Athena

IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Nigel McGuinness (w/Daniel Garcia)

AEW World Title Match
Adam Page (c) vs. MJF

Lights Out Steel Cage Match
Darby Allin, Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi), Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay vs. Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley), Gabe Kidd & The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)

And more!

Please check your local listings for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

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[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Please find some rambling hungover thoughts below:

If the Toronto crowd want to keep Canada in the Commonwealth they best bring their best
Oku being pounced out the ring look liked actual murder from my seat
I'll need to check the exact numbers this later, but the sheer amount of North allum wrestling (or pretending to be security, I see you Shreddy!) on the card was mad. Like, the majority of matches had at least 1 person whose been on a North show
The pacing was really good this year - the last two All Ins have dragged a bit in the second half, but this year I was surprised by how quickly (it felt) we got to lights out
HAYTERGANG
If you told me after a WCPW show in 2017 that in 8 years I'd be in The Dome seeing ZSJ, Nigel, Tanahashi, Ibushi, Edge and Christian, Okada, etc etc, I'd call you a god damn liar because no way could TNA pull that off
oh, and the skinny flippy essex boy would be the most over of the lot
Wheeler's still got a gun!
Swerve's house is located in the middle of our street, possibly near a yellow submarine

Most importantly, I cannot really express just how much fun I had last night. I can remember going to the dome years ago (definitely pre covid) to see a wwe house show with a childhood friend, the same guy I used to watch pirated 240p copies of smackdown and raw with when we were little. Sure, it was neet, and the tickets were (relatively) cheap, but my main memory was it all feeling a bit flat and paint by numbers, and while we both said we enjoyed it, it was clear that we'd been wishing for something more.

Every AEW show I've been to, is that more.

I truly don't mean this factionily. If you enjoy WWE then I'm genuinely and sincerely happy for you, but I'm so glad that a major wrestling company is producing a show I can get lost in and just enjoy. Not one I find myself watching in a meta, smarky way, but one where I can be enthralled by a technical masterclass, and minutes later have haribo being the deadliest weapon in a match where I'm fairly sure someone died twice.

If you've been on the fence about going to a wrestling show, you should do it. If it's an AEW show, you should definitely do it.

Oh, and support your local indie.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

If the Toronto crowd want to keep Canada in the Commonwealth they best bring their best

We're trying 😭