AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 - June 25th, 2023

 AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 - June 25th, 2023

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 - June 25th, 2023

Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Attendance: 14,826

Results:

Dark Match:

• Tom Lawlor def. Serpentico*

Zero-Hour Pre-Show Matches:

• 8-Man Tag Team Match: Mogul Embassy (Swerve Strickland, Brian Cage, Toa Liona and Bishop Kaun) def. CHAOS (Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta) and El Desperado
• Owen Hart Cup Women's Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Athena def. Billie Starkz
• El Phantasmo def. Stu Grayson
• 6-Man Tag Team Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, Bushi and Himoru Takahashi) def. United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Kyle Fletcher and TJP)

Main Show Matches:

• AEW World Championship: MJF (c) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the title
• Owen Hart Cup Men's Tournament Quarterfinal Match: CM Punk def. Satoshi Kojima
• 4-Way Match for AEW International Championship: Orange Cassidy (c) def. Katsuyori Shibata, Daniel Garcia and Zack Sabre, Jr. to retain the title
• IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Sanada (c) def. Jungle Boy to retain the title
• 10-Man Tag Team Match: The Elite ("Hangman" Adam Page and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), Eddie Kingston and Tomohiro Ishii def. The Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta), Konosuke Takeshita and Shota Umino
• AEW Women's World Championship: Toni Storm (c) def. Willow Nightingale to retain the title
• IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay def. Kenny Omega (c) to win the title
• 6-Man Tag Team Match: Sting, Darby Allin and Tetsuya Naito def. The Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara) and Minoru Suzuki
• Bryan Danielson def. Kazuchika Okada

* On the June 21st episode of AEW Dynamite, it was revealed that rivals MJF and Adam Cole would be teaming up in the Blind Eliminator Tournament in order to determine the number one contender for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, much to both men's dismay. Two days later, MJF made his first appearance ever on Rampage, interrupting Cole and informing him that he had arranged Cole a match at Forbidden Door against New Japan Pro Wrestling's Tom Lawlor. This led to Team Filthy's Lawlor and Royce Isaacs making their AEW debut, attacking Cole, as MJF mockingly teased saving his partner Cole from the assault. However, on the day of the event, it was announced for an undisclosed reason that Cole was not medically cleared to compete and therefore the Forbidden Door match was cancelled. Lawlor would end up facing Serpentico in a Dark Match which took place directly before the Zero-Hour PPV Pre-Show before Forbidden Door. Lawlor would win the match with a pinfall. 

Watch: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 Post-Show Media Scrum:

All Elite Wrestling will return this coming Wednesday Night (June 28th) to the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for AEW Dynamite, followed by a taping of AEW Rampage! Then, on July 1st, catch another LIVE episode of AEW Collision, also taking place at the FirstOntario Centre! Stay tuned to AEWsomeWrestling.com and we will keep you covered on the matches to take place!