Conflicting Reports Regarding STARDOM Involvement At Forbidden Door

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There are conflicting reports regarding STARDOM talent participating at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.

Fans and critics alike have discussed the possible involvement of STARDOM talent taking part in the upcoming Forbidden Door event on June 25.

As previously reported, Fightful Select reported that there were conversations between All Elite Wrestling and STARDOM to use talent from the Joshi promotion at the upcoming show.

According to Dave Meltzer on the June 10 edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, wrestlers from STARDOM are not expected to appear at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2.

With STARDOM’s Sunshine 2023 pay-per-view taking place from Yoyogi National Gymnasium on the same day as Forbidden Door, the promotion’s top stars are all booked for matches on that show.Detailing all the obstacles preventing STARDOM from appearing at the joint AEW and NJPW show, Meltzer said:

“There’s been some talk regarding Stardom and Forbidden Door and there’s nothing going on there.”

“This is from Stardom. First of all, none of the Stardom women have Canadian visas so even if they wanted to do something, it would have to be rushed, Stardom has a pay-per-view that day. From people in Stardom, there has been no talk from there side, they have heard nothing.”

“They said the only contact that Stardom and AEW have had – they didn’t have any last year either – the only contact they’ve had, Stardom had contacted AEW about perhaps one of the women from AEW wrestling against KAIRI, I believe it was, at the Tokyo Dome show for the IWPG Women’s Championship and they couldn’t get the deal done.”

“It never was never serious. It was going to be KAIRI and Tam [Nakano] at that show. But they did make an inquiry at that time, so that’s the only contact that there’s been. 

“KAIRI could have a visa from her time working in WWE, I don’t know that she does. I was told nobody does, and she’s somebody but none of the other women for sure do. They have a pay-per-view that day and every key wrestler on the roster is booked on that pay-per-view. “

Meltzer went on to provide an update on the situation with STARDOM on Sunday, saying:

“A couple of notes off last night’s show. Pro wrestlers are exempt from needing visas to even though no Stardom talent has Canadian visas, that’s not apparently an issue although Stardom was of the belief it was, but have found out that wasn’t the case.”

“That said, all the Stardom key talent is booked on a PPV in Japan the same day as Forbidden Door and there have been no talks with AEW that had even reached management as of yesterday in regard to talent at Forbidden Door and nobody is scheduled at this point and they are of the belief nobody will be scheduled at this late an hour.”

“At this point only four or five have U.S visas and we’ve seen with so much of the Mexican and U.K. talent what a time consuming process that is to get these days.”

Another potential big Forbidden Door match has been discussed, which you can read about here.

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