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Here is a complete look at the card for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023, along with in-depth analysis regarding the bouts fans won't want to miss.

Where: Scotiabank Arena in Toronto

When: Sunday, June 25 at 8 p.m. ET (Buy-In pre-show starts at 7 p.m. ET)

Forbidden Door 2023 Match Card

IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Will Ospreay

Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada

AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Sanada (c) vs. "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry

Men's Owen Hart Cup Tournament first round: CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima

AEW Women's World Championship: Toni Storm (c) vs. Willow Nightingale AEW International Championship Four-Way: Orange Cassidy (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Daniel Garcia

10-Man Tag Team match: Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Konosuke Takeshita and Shota Umino vs. "Hangman" Adam Page, The Young Bucks, Eddie Kingston and Tomohiro Ishii

Six-Man Tag Team match: Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara and Minoru Suzuki vs. Sting, Darby Allin and Naito

Adam Cole vs. Tom Lawlor

Pre-Show Women's Owen Hart Cup Tournament first round: Athena vs. Billie Starkz

The following matches and segments are advertised for tonight’s edition of AEW Collision.

-CM Punk, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler, and Ricky Starks vs. Jay White, Juice Robinson, Austin, Gunn, and Colten Gunn

-Swerve Strickland vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

-Nyla Rose vs. Willow Nightingale in an Owen Hart Cup tournament first-round match

-Brody King vs. Andrade El Idolo

-Sting and Darby Allin reveal their tag team partner for Forbidden Door

-Christian Cage addresses the TNT Title

The following matches are advertised for tonight’s AEW Rampage television show.

-AEW World Champion MJF makes his first appearance on Rampage

-Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta, Chuck Taylor, and Yoh vs. Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, Kyle Fletcher, and Swerve Strickland

-Billy Gunn and “The Acclaimed” Max Caster and Anthony Bowens in action

-Anna Jay vs. Skye Blue in an Owen Hart tournament first-round match

-Jack Perry vs. Douki

-Adam Cole speaks

Fuego Del Sol has wrapped up business with All Elite Wrestling.

The masked wrestler released a video thanking AEW staff and crew for his time with the promotion.

Along with the video, which you can view below, he included a caption that read, "Thank you AEW. Though this chapter is coming to a close, this is just the beginning for Fuego Del Sol."

Del Sol continued, "Now accepting bookings any and everywhere!"

IMO Feugo was getting himself over pretty well, though with Dark ending, I guess they didn't feel he had enough of a following to start using him on Rampage or ROH?

Here are the latest ratings for WWE and AEW over the past few weeks.

I will consider making this weekly if it is popular and wanted in the community.

WWE Raw:

• June 12, 2023: 1.595 million viewers
• June 19, 2023: 1.821 million viewers

WWE Smackdown:

• June 9, 2023: 2.226 million viewers (preliminary), 2.278 million viewers (final)
• June 16, 2023: 2.278 million viewers (preliminary), 2.430 million viewers (final)

WWE NXT:

• June 13, 2023: 581,000 viewers
• June 20, 2023: 773,000 viewers

AEW Dynamite:

• June 14, 2023: 832,000 viewers
• June 21, 2023: 902,000 viewers

AEW Rampage:

• June 9, 2023: 291,000 viewers
• June 16, 2023: 423,000 viewers

AEW Collision:

• June 17, 2023: 816,000 viewers

I think I acidentally deleted the original thread. Sorry

What's a good source of wrestling news that respects the readers intelligence and time?

The amount of clickbait and non news is horrific and feels like it has gotten worse recently.

A good example is the recent Punk ESPN interview. We had a bunch of stories reporting that people are unhappy about it or it was a shoot before it even came out but it was clearly all above board.

When it did come out, websites like cultaholic split it up into about 5 different stories when all you had to do was read the one interview.

Wrestling news for the most part feels like YouTube reaction videos. One piece of news that then gets spun off into 100 opinion pieces and hearsay until the original story gets lost. That's if the original piece of news was even legit because there are hardly ever any tangible sources.

Or do you not read any 'news' and just enjoy the shows? I do wonder if enjoying wrestling and reading about wrestling are two entirely different hobbies sometimes.

SATURDAY SATURDAY SAT UR DAY!

Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting!

THIS. IS. RAMPAGE!

Tonight's card.

-Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, and Jay Lethal vs. Mark Briscoe, Papa Briscoe, and Aubrey Edwards

-Taya Valkyrie vs. Trish Adora

-Will Ospreay, Kyle Fletcher, and Jeff Cobb(United Empire) vs. Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta, and Chuck Taylor(Chaos)

-Konosuke Takeshita vs Bandido

Kinda wild Osprey is on Rampage

How's people feeling about Punks imminent return?

Trying out a new type of post, lemme know what you think

Enjoyed this bit of hype and it was pretty well put together

There's no live thread in any threadiverse. WTF are we doing?

I'm always around a month+ behind with NJPW content, because they just release too much to keep up!

I've finally reached the Best of Super Jr. 30 (I'm on May 16/Day 4 right now) but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me which matches are worth watching and which are perfectly skippable on my todo list, because I'm aiming to be up to date for Forbidden Door II and I know I've a lot to get through in the next week!

I know I could probably just skip to the Finals Night of BOSJ, but what can I say, I'm a bit of a completionist.

Events I still have to watch:

• May 17: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 5
• May 18: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 6
• May 19: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 7
• May 21: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 8
• May 21: Resurgence
• May 23: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 9
• May 24: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 10
• May 26: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 11
• May 28: Best Of The Super Jr. 30 - Day 12
• Jun 04: Dominion
• Jun 09: All Together Again
• Jun 10: New Japan Road - Road To Strong
• Jun 17: New Japan Road - Road To Strong
• Jun 18: New Japan Road - Road To Strong
• Jun 25: AEW X NJPW: Forbidden Door II

Could effect wrestling industry as its control based test

It'll probably be a fun match like it always is, but it feels like the group of guys in this one has the lowest standing in years. Usually the match has a main eventer or something but these are all midcarders with the only ex-champion of any kind on the main roster being Nakamura.

Or maybe the rumors of Drew being in this are true?

So do you like the match using all guys who could possibly get a push, or do you like some more star power?

Hey all, I was just reading some of the threads here and I'm loving it so far. One request, and maybe I'm being too bold here, would be to limit the dirtsheet drama. I , for one, couldn't care less what Meltzer thinks of a match. I don't care for the negative vibes the dirtsheets look at the business with. Also, a problem I found with /SC, is that if a dirtsheet reported it, it was taken as gospel. These guys get worked all the time, and shouldn't be taken with any sort of seriousness. The only one I respect is Mike Johnson, but he works for a crappy site. This is just one long term fans opinion, but hopefully we can keep this space as negative free as we can.

Seriously, usually my mondays, wednesdays and fridays are like "let's check r/squaredcircle for the highlight posts"

Already miss that. I heard Rhea got a new belt? 🤔