Forbidden Door Card Is Taking Shape - Match You Are Most Looking Forward To

[Solid Gary]

AEW Forbidden Door on 28 June in San Jose is 13 days away and the card is becoming clearer. Starlight Kid will challenge Thekla for the AEW Women's World Championship at the show, bringing a Stardom versus AEW dynamic to the title picture. The Owen Hart Cup finals for both men and women will also be decided at the show, with the winners earning AEW World Championship matches. Gabe Kidd's attack on Shota Umino after an NJPW match in Osaka has set up further cross-promotional tension heading into the show.

The NJPW G1 Climax will feature defending champion Konosuke Takeshita and the returning Gabe Kidd later in the summer, but those storylines are already bleeding into the Forbidden Door build. AEW's Collision on June 13 was reviewed positively on 411 and the show is clearly being used to heat up the international roster combinations that make Forbidden Door unique. The San Jose card is expected to be the largest Forbidden Door to date in terms of card depth.

Which match on the Forbidden Door card are you most looking forward to and who are your picks for the Owen Hart Cup finals?

[Slay40]

Starlight Kid vs Thekla is the match that excites me most on the card. Two completely different wrestling philosophies, a genuine championship on the line, and a crowd that will know exactly who both of them are

[Lucy_35]

Gabe Kidd's attack on Shota Umino is exactly the kind of cross-promotional angle that Forbidden Door does better than any other show. The crowd will be invested in both sides and the history will be legible without needing a twenty minute video package

[SpikeDudley05]

The Owen Hart Cup finals need to be the best matches on the card to justify the tournament build. When Forbidden Door gets those right the whole show elevates. When the finals are flat everything else feels slightly lesser

[Andy92]

Konosuke Takeshita as the narrative thread connecting NJPW, AEW and the G1 storylines gives the show a coherent spine that it has sometimes lacked in previous years

[Joel96]

I want at least one CMLL match on the Forbidden Door card that gets proper time and is booked as a serious contest rather than a showcase. When that has happened in previous years the results have been some of the best matches of the year

[Shane]

San Jose is the right city for this show. Northern California wrestling audiences understand the international context and they will not need everything explained to them

[StringTheory97]

The Stardom representation on Forbidden Door has been getting better each year and Starlight Kid getting a world title shot is the right escalation. Whether she wins is a different question but the platform is meaningful

[Velvet Connor]

Forbidden Door works best when matches are built around genuine competitive stakes and not just as novelty cross-promotional encounters. The card this year looks like it has more of the former than it usually does