Ladder match for vacant TNT Championship to take place at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door

A ladder match at Forbidden Door will determine the next TNT Champion.

On Wednesday, The Young Bucks and the rest of The Elite appeared on Dynamite and said that as a result of Adam Copeland’s broken tibia, he had to be stripped of the TNT Championship. They were about to award the title to Jack Perry when Christopher Daniels appeared and announced that Tony Khan has appointed him as an interim executive vice president. He rejected the idea of Perry being awarded the title and instead announced a series of qualifying matches will take place on AEW television that will lead to a ladder match at Forbidden Door that will determine the next TNT Champion.

Later, it was announced that Konosuke Takeshita will face Penta El Zero Miedo on Rampage this Friday in what will be the first TNT Championship eliminator match.

Copeland was injured at Double or Nothing this past weekend when he climbed to the top of a barbed wire steel cage and jumped off, landing feet first upon impact. He later revealed on X that he will need to undergo surgery to repair his tibia.

“My brain forgets what my body always seems to remember, a little late, is that I’m 50 and I need to make better choices,” he said in the video. “So, my body pulled the emergency brake on me the other night and I ended up fracturing my tibia, which is going to require surgery, don’t know the time frame on that yet.”