AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2022

  • Date: June 26, 2022
  • Location: United Center in Chicago, Illinois

Highlights

  • Several injuries plagued this card. Adam Cole picked up a concussion in the IWGP title match, so it had to be ended early.
  • CM Punk was unable to defend the AEW World Championship because of a broken foot, forcing the interim title stipulation.
  • Hiromu Takahashi was planned to team with Dudes with Attitude and Hikuleo was scheduled to be on the opposing team, but Takahashi was unable to travel after coming down with a fever, resulting in that match being trimmed down to a trios contest.
  • Tomohiro Ishii had placed in the All-Atlantic Championship match, but an injury saw him replaced by Clark Connors.
  • Bryan Danielson was originally scheduled to face Zack Sabre Jr. Claudio Castagnoli (fka Cesaro) took his place.

Event Card

SINGLES MATCH FOR THE INTERIM AEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP:
Jon Moxley defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the new champion

FOUR-WAY MATCH FOR THE AEW ALL-ATLANTIC CHAMPIONSHIP:
PAC defeated Miro, Malakai Black and Clark Connors to become the new champion

SIX-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH:
Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara) and Minoru Suzuki defeated Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta and Shota Umino

IWGP UNITED STATES HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:
Will Ospreay (c) retained against Orange Cassidy

AEW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:
Thunder Rosa (c) retained against Toni Storm

WINNER TAKES ALL THREE-WAY TAG TEAM MATCH FOR THE ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP AND IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:
ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) defeated IWGP Tag Team Champions United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) & Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero) to retain the ROH titles and win the IWGP titles

FOUR-WAY MATCH FOR IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
Jay White (c) retained against Adam Cole, “Hangman” Adam Page and Kazuchika Okada

TRIOS TAG TEAM MATCH:
Dudes with Attitude (Darby Allin, Sting, and Shingo Takagi) defeated The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) and El Phantasmo (with Hikuleo)

SINGLES MATCH:
Claudio Castagnoli defeated Zack Sabre Jr.

BUY IN – EIGHT-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH:
Max Caster and The Gunn Club* (Austin Gunn, Billy Gunn and Colten Gunn) defeated NJPW Dojo (The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin and Yuya Uemura)

*Austin & Colten Gunn ran to the backstage area to find Danhausen early in the match, leaving their father Billy Gunn and Max Caster to fend for themselves.

BUY IN – TAG TEAM MATCH:
Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated The Factory (Aaron Solo and QT Marshall)

BUY IN – SINGLES MATCH:
Lance Archer defeated Nick Comoroto

BUY IN – TAG TEAM MATCH:
Swerve in Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) defeated Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)