AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door 2024
AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door 2024 is scheduled to take place on June 30, 2024, at UBS Arena in Elmont, NY. This is the third event in the Forbidden Door series after events in 2022 and 2023.
The main card of the event will start at 8 PM ET while pre-show is expected to start at 6:30 PM ET. The PPV event can be ordered via Bleacher Report and traditional PPV in the United States. It will be available on NJPW World in Japan apart. Triller TV and Dazn will air the event in several countries on PPV basis including US, UK and Canada.
Match card
| Matches | Title/Stipulation |
|---|---|
| Pre-show: Kyle Fletcher def. Serpentico | Singles Match |
| Pre-show: House of Black (Malakai Black & Brody King) def. Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen), Roderick Strong & Gabe Kidd, and Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii | 4-Way Tag Team Match |
| Pre-show: Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe def. Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano | Tag Team Match |
| Pre-show: Mariah May def. Saraya | 1st Round Match for Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament 2024 |
| Pre-show: Lucha Bros(Rey Fenix & Penta El Zero Meido) & Mistico def. Los Ingobernables de Japon(Yota Tsuji, Titan & Hiromu Takahashi) | Tag Team Match |
| MJF def. Hechicero | Singles Match |
| The Elite(Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson & Kazuchika Okada) def. Scissor Ace(Anthony Bowens, Max Caster & Hiroshi Tanahashi) | Tag Team Match |
| Bryan Danielson def. Shingo Takagi | 1st Round Match for Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament 2024 |
| Toni Storm(c) def. Mina Shirakawa | AEW Women’s Championship |
| Zack Sabre Jr. def. Orange Cassidy | Singles Match |
| Samoa Joe, Hook & Katsuyori Shibata def. The Learning Tree(Chris Jericho & Big Bill) & Jeff Cobb | Tag Team Match |
| Jack Perry def. Konosuke Takeshita, Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin, Lio Rush & El Phantasmo | Ladder Match for Vacant AEW TNT Championship |
| Mercedes Mone(TBS) def. Stephaine Vaquer(NJPW Strong Women’s) | Winner Takes All match for AEW TBS Women’s Championship and NJPW Strong Women’s Championship |
| Tetsuya Naito def. Jon Moxley(c) | IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| Swerve Strickland(c) def. Will Ospreay | AEW World Championship |
storylines & notes
On April 11, 2024, AEW revealed the complete PPV schedule for the year 2024 where Forbidden Door was announced to take place on June 30, 2024.
AEW World Championship: On May 22, AEW President Tony Khan announced the return of Casino Battle Royal on Dynamite May 29 episode with the winner challenging for AEW World title at this event. Will Ospreay won this Casino Ladder match to get the title shot.
TNT Championship: TNT Champion Adam Copeland suffered an injury during his title defense in Barbed Wire Steel Cage match at Double or Nothing event. The Young Bucks announced that Copeland was to undergo a surgery and was stripped of the title. They were about to anoint Jack Perry the new champion, but interim EVP Christopher Daniels announced that the new champion would be crowned via a ladder match at Forbidden Door. The following qualifying matches took place to determine the participants in the match:
- Konosuke Takeshita defeated Penta El Zero Meido
- Mark Briscoe defeated Brian Cage
- Jack Perry defeated Dustin Rhodes
- Dante Martin defeated Lee Moriarty
- Lio Rush defeated Action Andretti
AEW Women’s Championship: Toni Storm appeared on Stardom’s event on June 2, 2024 via video where she said she was opening Forbidden Door and giving Mira Shirakawa a chance to compete for AEW Women’s Championship. Shirakawa accepted the challenge. Shirakawa used to be a tag team partner of Toni Storm’s protege Mariah May. On Dynamite June 5 episode, Shirakawa came out to save Toni and May from an attack from Saraya and Harley Cameron.
TBS vs Strong Women’s Winner Takes All: NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Stephaine Vaquer came out to the stage on Dynamite May 29 episode after Mercedes Mone retained her TBS Women’s title.
Cassidy vs Sabre: Zack Sabre Jr. appeared on AEW Collision June 8 episode via video to challenge Orange Cassidy for a match at Forbidden Door. Cassidy later confirmed this match.
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley defeated Tetsuya Naito to win IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at NJPW Windy City Riot 2024 event. After his third successful title defense at NJPW Dominion 6.9 event against EVIL, Moxley put out an open challenge for anyone in NJPW to challenge him at Forbidden Door. Naito came out to answer the challenge and fix their rematch.
