Why Hiroshi Tanahashi Should Beat Jon Moxley At AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

screenrant.com:

Hiroshi Tanahashi is set to face Jon Moxley for the interim AEW World Championship at Forbidden Door, and there are a few reasons why NJPW's Ace should go over in the presumed main event of the evening. Moxley secured his spot after downing Kyle O'Reilly in a barnburner on the June 8 edition of Wednesday Night Dynamite. Meanwhile, Tanahashi got the victory over Hirooki Goto at Dominion on June 12, earning the right to fight Moxley for the interim championship at Forbidden Door.

It's a bout that is several years in the making, even though Moxley and Tanahashi have never had a singles match against each other in their careers. AEW fans may forget that when the former Dean Ambrose left WWE, it wasn't simply to go All Elite and call it a career. Instead, he wanted to face the best of the best, regardless of promotion and had an outstanding run as NJPW's IWGP United States Champion. He seemed destined to take on New Japan's Ace while defending the US Title, but that never came to fruition due to a variety of extenuating circumstances.

Related: Why AEW's Contract Dispute With MJF Is Both Real & Fake

Now another set of extenuating circumstances has Moxley ready to square off against Tanahashi at Forbidden Door. An unforeseen injury to World Champion CM Punk set this interim title eliminator up in the first place, and Moxley losing to Tanahashi is infinitely more interesting than the alternative. It doesn't have to be clean, of course. No one would be surprised if someone like Jay White got involved if only to get AEW's top title to NJPW for the foreseeable future. It'd also be an outstanding booking choice to have MJF show up for the first time in a month, costing AEW its championship in the main event of this massive