AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door viewing guide

AEW is back tonight (Sun., June 30, 2024) with their annual cross-promotional PPV with New Japan Pro-Wrestling — Forbidden Door! The show comes our way from UBS Arena on New York’s Long Island, and will also feature wrestlers from Stardom and CMLL. The show be headlined by Swerve Strickland defending the AEW World title against Will Ospreay.

The event will get rolling at the start time of 6:30pm ET with the free “Zero Hour” pre-show, which runs for 90 minutes on All Elite’s YouTube channel, or right here at Cageside Seats. That leads right into the PPV at 8pm ET, which you can stream on Triller TV, Bleacher Report, and elsewhere.

We’ll have play-by-play coverage of Forbidden Door from Zero Hour through to the main event in our live blog here. To get you ready, we have a preview here, and predictions from our staff here.

Here’s the card for the show, at least as of this writing:

• Swerve Strickland (c) vs. Will Ospreay for the AEW World championship
• Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight title
• TBS champ Mercedes Moné vs. NJPW Strong Women’s champ Stephanie Vaquer in a Title for Title match
• Timeless Toni Storm (c) vs. Mina Shirakawa for the AEW Women’s World championship
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jack Perry vs. Dante Martin vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo in a Ladder Match for the vacant TNT title
• Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi in a Men’s Owen Hart Tournament first round match
• The Elite (The Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada) vs. The Acclaimed & Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• MJF vs. Hechicero
• The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho & Big Bill) and Jeff Cobb vs. Samoa Joe, Hook & Katsuyori Shibata
• Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano (pre-show)
• Mistico, Rey Fenix, & Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Titan, Yota Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi (pre-show)
• Mariah May vs. Saraya in a Women’s Owen Hart Tournament first round match (pre-show)
• House of Black vs. Private Party vs. Kyle O’Reilly & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Strong (pre-show)