Pre-Show

Women's Owen Hart Cup - First Round
Athena vs. Billie Starkz

United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Kyle Fletcher & TJP)
vs.
Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi)

Stu Greyson w/The Righteous vs. El Phantasmo

Mogul Embassy (Swerve Strickland & Gates of Agony) w/Prince Nana
vs.
Rocky Romero, Trent Baretta & El Desperado

Main Card

Dream Match Main Event
"The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson vs. "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada

AEW World Championship
MJF (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
It was announced on Collision last night that this match will open the show

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
SANADA (c) vs. "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry w/HOOK

IWGP United States Championship
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Will Ospreay

AEW Women's Championship
Toni Storm (c) vs. Willow Nightingale

AEW International Championship - Fatal Fourway
Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Daniel Garcia vs. Zack Sabre, Jr.

Men's Owen Hart Cup - First Round
CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima

Le Suzuki Gods (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara & Minoru Suzuki)
vs.
Sting, Darby Allin & Tetsuya Naito

Adam Cole vs. "Filthy" Tom Lawlor

Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli), Shota Umino & Konosuke Takeshita
vs.
The Elite ("Hangman" Adam Page & The Young Bucks), Eddie Kingston & Tomohiro Ishii

There's rumors that Giulia may appear at Forbidden Door tonight, to confront Willow Nightingale.

There was a clip on Twitter of Giulia talking to someone about Willow and the Strong Women's Title. Then threatening that person, like she's threatening Willow. And then Giulia closes the clip by saying...

"Giulia will open the Forbidden Door."

Stu Greyson vs. El Phantasmo would have been the sleeper match of the show if given time.

And poor Starkz, she is getting murdered tonight.  Athena is a fucking beast these days.

I like how they got some NJPW multi-man tag matches in the pre-show. United Empire vs L.I.J. is a pure NJPW match, versions of that match have happened dozens of times, just not in front of a U.S. audience. BUSHI gets pinned.

El Desperado teaming with "CHAOS" people is certainly an interesting decision. Just a way to squeeze him on the card. In fact he would have been a good fit for the Jericho match, in Sammy Guevara's place. He has the aesthetic connection with Darby/Sting, but more importantly he is allies with Minoru Suzuki. But I understand why they want Guevara in a high profile match.

Looking at the Toni Storm match, a question comes to mind. Does Saraya actually wrestle? How many matches has she had since her grand return? Three?

Saraya does the occasional match but she is far better in the Rebel role as a manager.  Think she is really into the whole helping the next gen get over stuff now, rather than get herself back over.

That's a pretty solid card, should be a great show.

I posted it in the wrong thread, so I'll post it here.

Adam Cole is to ill to compete against Filthy Tom tonight. So the match has been scratched from the card.

Match was not needed at all anyway.

I'd be so mad if I didn't get to go "adam cole baybay" in the crowd.

Match doesn't matter though. I feel bad for Filthy Tom. Maybe they'll still use him somehow.

That preshow is long enough to be a main card.

Jun 25, 2023 19:06:35 GMT Emperor said:

Looking at the Toni Storm match, a question comes to mind. Does Saraya actually wrestle? How many matches has she had since her grand return? Three?

She is either not as healthy as she claims to be or others in the company realize she isn't as good as they hope she would be.

Nothing like 5 to 7 minute matches.

Time for Zero Hour!

no crown jewel robe tonight for Swerve.

MJF curtain jerking o.O

Jun 25, 2023 23:11:50 GMT c said:

MJF curtain jerking o.O

MJF asked for it.

Makes sense, why should the king be around this nonsense.

Cage and Swerve could become a nasty fucking tag team.

DB vs Okada headlining? Was almost certain it would be Omega and Will.

Time for a murder.

Willow vs Athena again is gonna be great.

Dude, that is one killer vest El Phantasmo has.

Here we go, Stu vs Phantasmo.

The titty twister!!!

Wow not seen that DDT in a long ass time.

Hiromu time!!!

LIG may be a bit too tranquilo here as BUSHI gets beat up.

I guess the plus side to scratching the Cole/Lawlor match will be that there'll be more time alotted for the bigger matches.

Likely will give Okada and DB their full time as people are likely to go long and with 11 matches it adds up.

And frankly, that is not the match I wanted to see from either of them and was just set up to use Cole.  

They should bring back Lawlor and give him DB on a Dynamite.