All matches announced for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025

The 2025 edition will be the first Forbidden Door to take place in August!

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 2025 edition is scheduled to go head-to-head with WWE NXT Heatwave, which is scheduled to emanate from at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts. 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. His opponent for the final match in the UK has not yet been announced.

AEW World Tag Team Champions, The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) are scheduled to defend the titles against an opponent that will be decided in an eliminator tournament, currently underway.

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 will be decided via qualifying matches, which are underway. Mone will have to face one representative each from AEW, CMLL, and Stardom.

Check all the announced matches so far for the 2025 edition of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door down below. The article will be updated as more matches are announced for the show.

Matches announced for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025

• The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) (c) vs TBD – Tag team 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 TBD (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
• 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
• “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

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