{"id":349209,"date":"2026-06-11T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349209"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:19:41","slug":"kenny-omega-accepts-forbidden-door-challenge-from-former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/kenny-omega-accepts-forbidden-door-challenge-from-former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Omega Accepts Forbidden Door Challenge From Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2191938\/kenny-omega-forbidden-door-challenge-former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion-zsj\/\" data-post-title=\"Kenny Omega Accepts Forbidden Door Challenge From Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2191938\">\n<picture id=\"p6eca812bbc82038a6052b1e52ddc4fe9\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/kenny-omega-accepts-forbidden-door-challenge-from-former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion\/intro-1781144006.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/kenny-omega-accepts-forbidden-door-challenge-from-former-iwgp-heavyweight-champion\/intro-1781144006.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">AEW\/Lee South<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Kenny Omega and Zack Sabre Jr. will go one on one for the primary time in eight years at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made during &#8220;AEW Dynamite&#8221; on Wednesday night with a video package voiced-over by Sabre Jr. addressing Omega.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Omega last appeared within the Stadium Stampede victory over the Demand, the Don Callis Family, and the Dogs alongside the Young Bucks, Jack Perry, the Hurt Syndicate, and Chris Jericho at Double or Nothing in May. He will probably be returning to motion during &#8220;AEW Collision&#8221; this weekend against Bad Dude Tito.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Sabre Jr., it&#8217;ll be a return to AEW for the primary time since retaining the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship over Nigel McGuinness at Forbidden Door in August last yr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will probably be third singles match between Omega and Sabre Jr., with them first crossing paths in 2013 with an Omega win within the UK. They faced each other five years later through the 2018 G1 Climax, with Omega picking up the win over again. With Forbidden Door emanating from San Jose, California, this will probably be the third continent they&#8217;ve wrestled each other on.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEW\/Lee South Kenny Omega and Zack Sabre Jr. will go one on one for the primary time in eight years at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. The announcement was made during &#8220;AEW Dynamite&#8221; on Wednesday night with a video package voiced-over by Sabre Jr. addressing Omega.\u00a0 Omega last appeared within the Stadium Stampede victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[6966,399,1470,1989,8295,1097,40093,14981,17140],"class_list":["post-349209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-accepts","tag-challenge","tag-champion","tag-door","tag-forbidden","tag-heavyweight","tag-iwgp","tag-kenny","tag-omega"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349212,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349209\/revisions\/349212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}