Vanquishing all the rumours, the much-anticipated match featuring CM Punk and KENTA isn’t happening. Rather, the Second City Savior will be facing a legend from NJPW, Satoshi Kojima. This match will be a part of the Owen Hart Foundation Cup.
Over on Dynamite, Punk made an appearance to save The Hardys from a beatdown from The Gunns alongside Ricky Starks, and AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR. Punk also issued a challenge to The Gunns or an eight-man tag team match at Collision.
Later in the night, it was revealed that Punk will be participating in the Men’s Owen Hart Cup tournament which begins this Sunday night at Forbidden Door. Apart from the PPV, the first-round match of this tournament will also go down at Collision on Saturday.
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In another major announcement for the Forbidden Door, it was confirmed that AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm will be defending her title against Willow Nightingale, this Sunday night in her second title defense of this current reign.
Nightingale, herself is the NJPW Strong Women’s Champion, but it was clarified that her title will not be on the line and this match won’t be a title unification match. Nightingale became the inaugural holder of the title, last month.
At New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Resurgence event, Nightingale defeated Mercedes Moné fka Sasha Banks of WWE in the final of a tournament to become the champion. Moné was supposed to be the champion but she was injured during this match.
On the flip side, Storm won the AEW Women’s Championship by defeating Jamie Hayter at the Double or Nothing pay-per-view. Her first title defense went down against Skye Blue at last week’s Dynamite.
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In a tag team match, legendary Sting will also be seen in action at Forbidden Door. Darby Allin and a Mystery opponent will be his partner in this trios action against Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, and Minoru Suzuki.
AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 pay-per-view will take place at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Sunday, June 25. Ten matches for the cross-promotional event have been confirmed as given below:
– AEW World Heavyweight Championship Match: MJF (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
– AEW Women’s World Championship Match: Tony Storm (c) vs. Willow Nightingale
– Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup First-Round Match: CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima
– Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada
– IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Match: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Will Ospreay
– IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Match: Sanada (c) vs. Jungle Boy
– Sting, Darby Allin & TBA vs. Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara & Minoru Suzuki
– Jon Moxley, ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs. “Hangman” Adam Page, Young Bucks, Eddie Kingston, & Tomohiro Ishii
– AEW International Championship Match: Orange Cassidy (c) vs. NJPW TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata vs. Daniel Garcia
– Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament Match: Athena vs. Billie Starkz [Pre-Show]
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