AEW And NJPW Announce Joint Forbidden Door PPV Event For This Summer
AEW owner Tony Khan's latest «huge announcement» has the wrestling world buzzing, as he and NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) president Takami Ohbari came together onto last night's AEW Dynamite program to announce that the two promotions will be hosting a joint PPV titled AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, taking place on June 26 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
AEW and NJPW's groundbreaking announcement comes just over a month following Khan's acquisition of Ring of Honor (ROH) and all its assets, and a little under three weeks removed from his first successful ROH production Supercard of Honor, which saw a number of the promotion's major titles switch hands and appearances from numerous ROH alumni, including Jay Lethal, the Young Bucks, new ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta, and the surprise return of newly-minted ROH Hall of Famer Samoa Joe.
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It perhaps should be clarified that while Khan and Ohbari did ultimately make the announcement of the cross-promotion supershow on social media via press release, it was in fact current AEW megastar Adam Cole who made the formal announcement on Dynamite with the two executives present on the stage. Cole made a point to tout himself as someone worthy of making such a grand announcement, being one of the biggest stars in modern-day Japanese wrestling history (a not-so-veiled dig at the currently-absent Kenny Omega), and proceeded to announce the name, date and overall purpose of the show, as well as provide a taste of future attractions with an upcoming cross-promotional match on Friday's AEW Rampage pitting himself against NJPW's «Stone Pitbull» Tomohiro Ishii.
Cole would cap off the announcement with the reintroduction
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