The 2025 Forbidden Door is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and supershow co-produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the Japan-based New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It will be the fourth annual Forbidden Door event and will take place on August 24, 2025, in London, England, at a to be announced venue, coinciding with the United Kingdom's August Bank Holiday weekend, previously occupied by AEW's All In. This will be the first Forbidden Door to be held in August, as the first three events were all held in June, and it will also be the first held outside of North America.
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| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | August 24, 2025[1] | ||
| City | London, England | ||
| Venue | TBA | ||
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Background
editForbidden Door is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Japan-based New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Established in 2022, the event is held during the summer and features direct competition between wrestlers from the two companies.[2][3] The 2024 event also featured some wrestlers from NJPW's sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom and Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).[4] The event takes its name from the same term often used by AEW when referring to working with other professional wrestling promotions.[5]
This will mark the first Forbidden Door event held outside of North America, and AEW's fifth event overall outside the continent. This also marks the first Forbidden Door held in August, as the prior three events were held in June, and in turn will be held during the United Kingdom's August Bank Holiday weekend, which was previously occupied by AEW's All In the prior two years.[6][1][7]
Storylines
editForbidden Door will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.[8] Storylines are primarily advanced on AEW's weekly television shows Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, the YouTube series Being The Dark Order, and also at NJPW, Stardom, and CMLL events.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Thomas, Jeremy (August 25, 2024). "AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 Confirmed For London". 411Mania. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
- ^ Nason, Josh (February 4, 2021). "AEW, New Japan Pro Wrestling Established Working Relationship". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
- ^ Barrasso, Justin (April 20, 2022). "Tony Khan Announces First-Ever AEW, NJPW Joint Pay-Per View Event". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
- ^ Lee, Joseph (May 8, 2024). "Rocky Romero Confirms STARDOM Involvement in AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, CMLL 'Very Likely'". 411Mania. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (February 10, 2022). "Tony Kahn Admits He Butchered His 'Forbidden Door' Definition, Which Led To Securing Jay White". Fightful. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
The term "forbidden door" has always been used in reference to companies working together and not signing exclusively with one company.
- ^ Currier, Joseph (August 25, 2024). "Date set for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 in London". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
- ^ Tessier, Colin (August 25, 2024). "AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 Confirmed For London". WrestleZone. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.