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
No.ResultsStipulationsTimes1Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated The Factory (Aaron Solo and Q. T. Marshall)Tag team match8:532Lance Archer defeated Nick ComorotoSingles match6:083Swerve In Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) defeated Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)Tag team match12:084Max 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 match5:355Minoru Suzuki and Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara) (with Tay Conti) defeated Eddie Kingston, Shota Umino, and Wheeler YutaSix-man tag team match18:586FTR (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 Championship16:197Pac defeated Clark Connors, Miro, and Malakai BlackFour-way match to crown the first AEW All-Atlantic Champion15:108Dudes with Attitudes (Darby Allin, Sting, and Shingo Takagi) defeated Bullet Club (El Phantasmo, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) (with Hikuleo)Six-man tag team match13:019Thunder Rosa (c) defeated Toni StormSingles match for the AEW Women's World Championship10:4210Will Ospreay (c) (with Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)) defeated Orange CassidySingles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship16:4311Claudio Castagnoli defeated Zack Sabre Jr.Singles match18:2612Jay White (c) (with Gedo) defeated "Hangman" Adam Page, Kazuchika Okada, and Adam ColeFour-way match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship21:0513Jon Moxley (with William Regal) defeated Hiroshi TanahashiSingles match for the interim AEW World Championship18:14 

References

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