Forbidden Door (2022)
Forbidden Door (2022) | ||||
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling | |||
Date | June 26, 2022 | |||
Attendance | 16,529 | |||
Venue | United Center | |||
City | Chicago, Illinois | |||
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AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door (2022) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view co-promoted by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on June 26, 2022 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first Forbidden Door event to take place and the first event that AEW and NJPW have held together. This was also the first professional wrestling event held at the United Center since 2000 when World Championship Wrestling (WCW) held Spring Stampede in the arena.
The main event of the show saw Jon Moxley defeat Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the new interim AEW World Champion. Moxley put Tanahashi in a rear naked choke before hitting his Paradigm Shift and getting the pinfall victory to win the title.[1]
During the event, Bryan Danielson announced Zack Sabre Jr.'s hand-picked opponent. The opponent was revealed to be Claudio Castagnoli who made his unannounced AEW debut. He then defeat Sabre after hitting him with his Ricola Bomb.[2]
Matches
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door Results (6/26/22): Moxley vs Tanahashi for Interim AEW Championship + More". Fightful. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ↑ "Claudio Castagnoli/Cesaro debuts at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ↑ "AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door Buy-In pre-show results: Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado, Max Caster, Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, and Billy Gunn vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin, and Yuya Uemura, and Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi vs. QT Marshall and Aaron Solo". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ↑ "AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door results: Powell's live review of Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Title, Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page vs. Adam Cole for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title, Thunder Rosa vs. Toni Storm for the AEW Women's Title, Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy for the IWGP U.S. Title". ProWrestling.net. Retrieved November 24, 2023.