Konosuke Takeshita defeated Ricochet to retain the International Championship within the principal event of “AEW Dynamite.”
Takeshita was making the third defense of the title he won from Kazuchika Okada in at Double or Nothing in May, entering a steel cage alongside Mark Briscoe and 4 others against Okada, MJF, and 4 of the Don Callis Family at this weekend’s Forbidden Door.
Per the stipulations of the match, Ricochet’s Demand stablemates within the Gates of Agony, in addition to the Don Callis Family, couldn’t get entangled with everyone banned from ringside. But there have been moments where it didn’t seem as if Ricochet would want that help to dethrone the champion.
After countless near-falls and forwards and backwards motion running fairly clean between the wrestlers, Ricochet pulled the referee between him and his opponent to realize the advantage. He got one other close near-fall before in search of to place Takeshita away with the Spirit Gun.
The champion avoided the finisher, rallying one final time to deliver Raging Fire and get the winning pinfall to retain his title.
When the match had concluded and Takeshita took his leave, his exit was overlapped with Briscoe’s entrance, closing the show with a final address before the multi-man cage match on Sunday. Takeshita returned as an MJF attack spurred on a closing brawl, making as quick of an exit after getting dropped with a Rainmaker from Okada as he entered the fray.
He eventually returned to the ring after Briscoe had outmaneuvered MJF and Andrade, standing tall with the remaining of his teammates to shut the show.