Forbidden Door (2022)

**AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door (2022)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view co-promoted by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on June 26, 2022 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first Forbidden Door event to take place and the first event that AEW and NJPW have held together. This was also the first professional wrestling event held at the United Center since 2000 when World Championship Wrestling (WCW) held Spring Stampede in the arena.

The main event of the show saw Jon Moxley defeat Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the new interim AEW World Champion. Moxley put Tanahashi in a rear naked choke before hitting his _Paradigm Shift_ and getting the pinfall victory to win the title.

During the event, Bryan Danielson announced Zack Sabre Jr.'s hand-picked opponent. The opponent was revealed to be Claudio Castagnoli who made his unannounced AEW debut. He then defeat Sabre after hitting him with his _Ricola Bomb_.

## Matches

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|Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated The Factory (Aaron Solo and Q. T. Marshall)|Tag team match|8:53||||||
|Lance Archer defeated Nick Comoroto|Singles match|6:08||||||
|Swerve In Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) defeated Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)|Tag team match|12:08||||||
|Max Caster and Gunn Club (Billy, Austin, and Colten Gunn) (with Anthony Bowens) defeated Yuya Uemura and New Japan LA Dojo (Alex Coughlin, The DKC and Kevin Knight)|Eight-man tag team match|5:35||||||
|Minoru Suzuki and Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara) (with Tay Conti) defeated Eddie Kingston, Shota Umino, and Wheeler Yuta|Six-man tag team match|18:58||||||
|FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (ROH) defeated United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) (IWGP) and Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta)|Winners Take All Three-way tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship and IWGP Tag Team Championship|16:19||||||
|Pac defeated Clark Connors, Miro, and Malakai Black|Four-way match to crown the first AEW All-Atlantic Champion|15:10||||||
|Dudes with Attitudes (Darby Allin, Sting, and Shingo Takagi) defeated Bullet Club (El Phantasmo, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) (with Hikuleo)|Six-man tag team match|13:01||||||
|Thunder Rosa (c) defeated Toni Storm|Singles match for the AEW Women's World Championship|10:42||||||
|Will Ospreay (c) (with Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)) defeated Orange Cassidy|Singles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship|16:43||||||
|Claudio Castagnoli defeated Zack Sabre Jr.|Singles match|18:26||||||
|Jay White (c) (with Gedo) defeated "Hangman" Adam Page, Kazuchika Okada, and Adam Cole|Four-way match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship|21:05||||||
|Jon Moxley (with William Regal) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi|Singles match for the interim AEW World Championship|18:14||||||
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## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Forbidden Door (2022)
- **promotion**: All Elite Wrestling
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
- **date**: June 26, 2022
- **venue**: United Center
- **city**: Chicago, Illinois
- **attendance**: 16,529
- **lastevent**: **AEW:**
Double or Nothing (2022)
**NJPW:**
Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jo Hall
- **nextevent**: **AEW:**
All Out (2022)
**NJPW:**
G1 Climax 32
- **event**: AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, Forbidden Door
- **lastevent2**: _First_
- **nextevent2**: Forbidden Door (2023)