AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025: Preview, match card, news, timings, where to watch & more

The 2025 edition of Forbidden Door will emanate from the O2 Arena!

The 2025 edition of Forbidden Door is, as usual, co-produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is set to emanate in August for the first time and the first to take place outside North America.

The fourth edition of the show is scheduled for Sunday, August 24, 2025, at The O2 Arena in London, England, during the United Kingdom’s August Bank Holiday weekend

The show will go head-to-head with WWE NXT Heatwave, which is set to emanate from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts. WWE’s Heatwave will emanate live from 7 PM ET, while Forbidden Door will emanate earlier at 1 PM ET.

NJPW star Hiroshi Tanahashi is set to wrestle in his final match in the United Kingdom at the PPV. He will battle Kyle Fletcher for the AEW TNT title.

AEW World Tag Team Champions, The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) are scheduled to defend the titles against the team of Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) and FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) in a three-way tag team elimination match.

Furthermore, AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada accepted Swerve Strickland’s challenge to defend the title and will lock horns against Strickland at the Forbidden Door PPV.

After winning the Casino Gauntlet match at All In: Texas 2025, Athena signed the contract to challenge the current AEW Women’s World champion, Toni Storm, at the upcoming PPV. Athena is banking on Storm’s bad luck in London, which includes losing the title at All In: London in 2024.

AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone is also set for a title defense in a four-way match on August 24, and her opponents were decided via qualifying matches. Mone will have to face one representative each from AEW, CMLL, and Stardom, namely Alex Windsor, Persephone, and Bozilla.

Furthermore, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. will defend the title against Nigel McGuinness, while AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page will contest his title in a singles match against MJF.

Additionally, after their reunion, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage will take on the team of Killswitch and Kip Sabian in a tag team match. AEW has also announced four matches for the countdown show.

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 match card

• (Pre-show) – Paragon (Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong), El Desperado, & Yuya Uemura vs CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush) & Don Callis Family (Hechicero & Josh Alexander) – Eight-man tag team match
• (Pre-show) – Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue &Thekla) & Megan Bayne vs Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, Queen Aminata, & Willow Nightingale – Eight-woman tag team match
• (Pre-show) – JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) & Michael Oku vs Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) & Ricochet – Trios match
• (Pre-show) – The Opps (Katsuyori Shibata, Powerhouse Hobbs & Samoa Joe) (c) vs Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, & Robbie X) – Trios match for the AEW World Trios title
• Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi), Darby Allin, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Will Ospreay vs Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley), The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), and Gabe Kidd – Lights Out Steel Cage match
• The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) (c) vs FTR vs Bandido and Brody King – Tag team 3-way match for the AEW World Tag Team title match
• Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Swerve Strickland – AEW Unified title match
• “Timeless” Toni Storm (c) vs Athena –  AEW Women’s World title match
• Mercedes Mone (c) vs Alex Windsor (AEW) vs Persephone (CMLL) vs Bozilla (Stardom) – Four-way match for the AEW TBS title match
• Kyle Fletcher (c) vs Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW) – AEW TNT title match
• Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs Nigel McGuinness (AEW) – IWGP World Heavyweight title match
• “Hangman” Adam Page (c) vs MJF –  AEW World title match (MJF’s Casino Gauntlet championship contract match)
• Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs Kip Sabian & Nick Wayne – Tag Team match

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 Timings & Telecast Details

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