It's time for the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025 pay-per-view! This show is taking place out of The O2 Arena in London, England on Sunday, August 24, 2025.
The pay-per-view is set to start with the Zero Hour pre-show at 11:30 a.m. ET, with the main card starting at 1 p.m. ET.
This post here will be updated frequently throughout the night to reflect live coverage of the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door event, including all the match results, rundowns of the promos, and any other interesting or noteworthy things that take place. Keep refreshing for updates to find out all the winners and more!
Preview & Predictions for AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2025:
On tap for tonight's event, MJF and Athena have used their Casino Gauntlet title shots to challenge "Hangman" Adam Page and "Timeless" Toni Storm for their AEW Men's & Women's World Championships respectively. This may bury the lead in some ways, but I think both titles are staying put where they are. I don't anticipate either challenger walking out as the new champion. In particular, I think MJF is almost guaranteed to lose, while Athena might stand a chance to win. But the likelihood MJF goes into CMLL to drop their title to Mistico while holding the AEW title is very low, and I don't think Athena will hold both the ROH and AEW Women's World Championships at the same time. The thing with MJF is that he still has the contract available to use after this, so even though the title can change hands on a disqualification or count-out, I think that's just a red herring. MJF loses, is furious that he had the odds stacked and still came up short, and then, eventually in the future, steals the title from Page a few months from now.
Kyle Fletcher will also retain his TNT title over Hiromu Takahashi, and Zack Sabre Jr. will retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship over Nigel McGuinness (possibly through interference directly from Daniel Garcia). I also anticipate Mercedes Mone retains the TBS title over her three opponents, and I don't think Kazuchika Okada is in jeopardy of losing the AEW Unified Championship to Swerve Strickland.
One belt I do think could change hands, though, is for The Hurt Syndicate to drop the tag titles to FTR in particular, who can then in turn lose those titles to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, who lose to Kip Sabian and Killswitch here due to communication issues that they need to sort out over the given time to allow FTR to have a bit of a run. FTR probably pins one of Bandido or Brody King so Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin don't need to take a pinfall loss and can feud with FTR separately for a bit. Eventually, Cage and Cope get the hang of things, resolidify their team, and win the titles from FTR.
As far as the Lights Out Steel Cage match is concerned, I'm expecting the babyfaces to come out on top, as I think we're in the downfall of the Death Riders and that needs to continue.
AEW x NJPW: FORBIDDEN DOOR RESULTS - ZERO HOUR PRE-SHOW
- Paragon (Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong), Yuya Uemura & El Desperado defeated Hechicero, Josh Alexander & CRU (Action Andretti & Lio Rush) by pinfall.
- Trios Match: GOA (Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona) and Ricochet defeated JetSpeed (Kevin Knight and "Speedball" Mike Bailey) and Michael Oku by pinfall.
- The Triangle of Madness (Julia Hart, Skye Blue & Thekla) & Megan Bayne defeated Queen Aminata, Harley Cameron, Willow Nightingale & Kris Statlander by pinfall.
- Trios Match for the AEW World Trios Championship: The Opps (Samoa Joe, Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs) (c) defeated Bullet Club War Dogs (Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, and Robbie X) by pinfall to retain their titles.
AEW x NJPW: FORBIDDEN DOOR RESULTS - MAIN CARD
- Adam Copeland and Christian Cage defeated The Matriarchy (Kip Sabian and Killswitch) by pinfall.
- Singles Match for the AEW TNT Championship: Kyle Fletcher (c) defeated Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW) by pinfall.
- Four-Way Match for the AEW TBS Championship: Mercedes Moné (c) retained over Alex Windsor, Persephone and Bozilla by pinfall.
- Singles Match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) defeated Nigel McGuinness by pinfall
- Backstage, Thekla and Queen Aminata were still fighting and it spilled into the ringside area. Jamie Hayter then returned to help Aminata fight off The Triangle of Madness.
- Three-Way Tag Team Match: Brodido (Bandido and Brody King) won the AEW World Tag Team Championship by defeating The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) (c) and FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) by pinfall.
- Singles Match for the AEW Unified Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) retained over Swerve Strickland by pinfall. After the match, Okada put Strickland's leg between the steps and the ring post and attacked him with a steel chair. Prince Nana tried to help out, but Wardlow returned and has joined The Don Callis Family, beating down Nana (and some security guards).
- Singles Match for the AEW Women's World Championship: "Timeless" Toni Storm (c) retained over Athena by submission.
- Singles Match for the AEW World Championship: "Hangman" Adam Page (c) retained over MJF by pinfall.
- Lights Out Steel Cage Match: Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi), Darby Allin, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Will Ospreay defeated Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley), The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), and Gabe Kidd by pinfall.
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