Forbidden Door (2023)

AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door
Promotional poster featuring Bryan Danielson, Kazuchika Okada, Kenny Omega, and Will Ospreay
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateJune 25, 2023
CityToronto, Ontario, Canada
VenueScotiabank Arena
Attendance14,826[1]
Buy rate140,000[2]
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The 2023 Forbidden Door was the second annual 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 25, 2023, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was AEW's first PPV to be held outside of the United States and NJPW's first traditional PPV to be held in Canada.

Fourteen matches were contested at the event, including four on Zero Hour pre-show as well as one dark match. In the main event, Bryan Danielson defeated Kazuchika Okada by submission. In other prominent matches, Will Ospreay defeated Kenny Omega to win the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, The Elite ("Hangman" Adam Page, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson), Eddie Kingston, and Tomohiro Ishii defeated Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli), Konosuke Takeshita, and Shota Umino in a 10-man tag team match, Sanada defeated "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, and in the opening bout, MJF defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the AEW World Championship.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference FD2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Update On AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 PPV Buys". cultaholic.com. June 27, 2023. Retrieved May 4, 2024.