Opening Match Of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 Revealed

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On tonight’s episode of AEW Collision (June 24) the opening match for Sunday’s pay-per-view AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door was revealed.

After Hiroshi Tanahashi took on Swerve Strickland in a match that the NJPW star eventually won (despite being visibly banged up), AEW World Champion MJF’s music hit.

However MJF did not appear in person in front of the Toronto crowd, rather appearing in a pre-taped segment in front of the Scotiabank Arena on the big screen.

Telling Tanahashi that he wouldn’t appear an extra night in Toronto just for him, he also didn’t plan on sticking around long to watch “a bunch of Indie Jabrones,” so he spoke to Tony Khan.

MJF will still be defending his AEW World Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi but their match will go on first in the pay-per-view’s main show.

Earlier on AEW Collision, an announcement about the mystery partner for Sting and Darby Allin at Forbidden Door in their match against Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara and Minoru Suzuki.

Teaming with Sting and Allin was revealed to be NJPW legend, Tetsuya Naito! Click here to read more about how the reveal happened. 

You can click here to read the entire card for Sunday, June 25 pay-per-view, AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023.

"With all due respect, 'Ace' you are not on the level of The Devil."#AEWxNJPW #ForbiddenDoor is LIVE on PPV THIS SUNDAY at 8pm ET/5pm PT

Watch #AEWCollision LIVE on TNT!@The_MJF | @tanahashi1_100 pic.twitter.com/xzOwsNlNzW

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 25, 2023

 

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• Collision
• Forbidden Door
• NJPW
• AEW

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