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| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 26, 2022 | ||
| City | Chicago, Illinois | ||
| Venue | United Center | ||
| Attendance | 16,529[1] | ||
| Buy rate | 125,000-127,000[2] | ||
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The 2022 Forbidden Door was the inaugural Forbidden Door professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and supershow co-produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the Japan-based New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on June 26, 2022, at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first AEW/NJPW co-promoted event. It was the first professional wrestling pay-per-view held at this venue since Spring Stampede in 2000, which was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including four on The Buy In pre-show. In the main event, Jon Moxley defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the interim AEW World Champion. In other prominent matches, Jay White defeated "Hangman" Adam Page, Kazuchika Okada, and Adam Cole in a four-way match to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, Pac defeated Clark Connors, Miro, and Malakai Black in a four-way match to become the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion, and Claudio Castagnoli, formerly known as Cesaro in WWE, defeated Zack Sabre Jr. in his AEW debut match. The event also saw special appearances by Juice Robinson and Katsuyori Shibata.
- ^ "2022.06.26 AEWxNJPW: FORBIDDEN DOOR". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Nash, Josh (July 1, 2022). "AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door does estimated 125,000-127,000 PPV buys". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.