In a recent appearance on the “Under the Ring” podcast, Rocky Romero shared his insights on the difficulties surrounding building toward and presenting a massive crossover super card such as AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. Noting that the quality of the show would be the lost of either promotion’s problems, Romero said,
“Well, I think the quality part is kind of easy in the fact that I think both companies have such great talent that you can put any mixture of these guys or girls together and, you know, create something super special, like we saw last year. Outside of that, I think the hardest part is just, like, two big companies like this who have a really regular schedule. It’s hard to try to schedule everybody in when we need to, right? So now that Double or Nothing is finished, AEW has to build to Forbidden Door. On the Japan side, we had just finished Dominion, and now we are building to Forbidden Door. Now it’s just kind of getting everybody acclimated to having these three or four weeks that we need to build the pay-per-view. Also, there doesn’t also need to be a crazy build like you would normally build to a big show because Forbidden Door is kind of special in the fact that it’s dream matches or we’re trying to give you matches that you wouldn’t normally see on either program, right? Whether it’s in AEW or in New Japan.”
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door II will take place on June 25, 2023, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
