AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, with stars from CMLL and Stardom also participating, is just a bit over every week away, and the cardboard is shaping as much as be an exciting one. Ahead of “AEW Dynamite” on Wednesday, there are five matches announced for the event, including the finals of each the lads’s and ladies’s Owen Hart Foundation tournaments, in addition to an AEW World Women’s Championship match. As the thrill for Forbidden Door grows, commentator Tony Schiavone spoke concerning the pay-per-view and what he was looking forward to most on an episode of “What Happened When.”
“I’m interested to see what a six-man, or, I assume it would be 12-man, cage [match] will seem like,” he said. “That is going to be crazy. I do not think I’ve ever seen anything like that in all my years of doing this. So, that is going to be lots of fun.”
The cage match will pit team AEW World Champion MJF against Team Mark Briscoe, with those teams to be announced on “Dynamite” on Wednesday. If Team Briscoe wins, he’ll get a shot at MJF’s title. TBS Champion Kevin Knight, the most recent addition to the Don Callis Family, is the primary confirmed member of MJF’s team, and he told the champion last week he’d only help if he also got a shot on the gold.
Schiavone also said he’s looking forward to the lads’s Owen final, where Swerve Strickland will tackle Will Ospreay. The ladies’s final has not yet been set, with Hazuki to challenge Mercedes Mone, and Maya World to tackle ROH Women’s World Champion Athena to find out who goes to Forbidden Door.
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