For the fifth annual Forbidden Door, AEW will join forces with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, CMLL and Stardom for a one-night showcase of the four promotions crossing paths at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on Sunday, June 28.
The show is headlined by the Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Finals, with the winner of each match earning a world championship opportunity at All In.
Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland will face off for the first time since Forbidden Door 2024, with a chance to headline Wembley Stadium hanging in the balance. The story being told has centered around the Aerial Assassin, but could AEW shock everyone by taking the rivalry in a different direction? Perhaps not, but these are two of the company’s biggest stars, and the match should deliver.
Mercedes Moné and Maya World will also go head-to-head in the women’s final. For World, it would mark the culmination of making the most of an opportunity created when Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize left an AEW Collision taping in the fall of 2025. It would be a major upset if she earned a world title match at All In, but given the magnitude of this show, it would be a major surprise if Moné didn’t win the Owen Hart Tournament for the second consecutive year and punch her ticket to Wembley.
Before that, Thekla will defend the AEW Women’s World Championship against Stardom’s Starlight Kid. It has been a strong title reign for the Toxic Spider, and if she emerges victorious here, her path to All In becomes much clearer.
Additionally, an all-star steel cage match will see members of The Conglomeration, led by Mark Briscoe and joined by Darby Allin, take on MJF and the Don Callis Family. Briscoe has been calling out Long Island’s own for weeks in pursuit of an AEW World Championship match, and if his team wins at Forbidden Door, the odds are he’ll finally get his opportunity.
These matches, along with others, have been confirmed for Forbidden Door as of June 20. Here’s how the card stands:
AEW Continental Championship Match
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Bandido
IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship Match
Shota Umino (c) vs. PAC
AEW World Tag Team Championship Match
Adam Copeland and Christian Cage (c) vs. David Finlay and Clark Connors
Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final
Mercedes Moné vs. Maya World
Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final
Will Ospreay vs. Swerve Strickland
AEW Women’s World Championship Match
Thekla (c) vs. Starlight Kid
Steel Cage Match
Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly, Konosuke Takeshita and Darby Allin vs. MJF, Kevin Knight, Kyle Fletcher, Jake Doyle, Kazuchika Okada and Andrade El Idolo
This article was originally published on Forbes.com
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