Columnist Rob Pasbani has your first look that this month’s Forbidden Door PPV, plus what happened on Raw, and news on the next Brock vs. Cody match, who has advanced in Money in the Bank and a preview of all wrestling on TV this week.
After this weekend’s big NJPW Dominion show, two major matches have been announced for AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door, happening at the end of this month. The inter-promotional super show will feature a rematch of a leading contender for match of the year, Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the IWGP US Championship and the blockbuster dream match announcement of Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada.
Will Osprey defeated Lance Archer in the title tournament qualifier and immediately challenged Omega, and the entire country of Canada. Ospreay wants to head in the heel saying that everybody from Canada has been a jerk. “Chris Jericho? Asshole. Don Callis? Asshole. El Phantasmo? Asshole. Bret Hart just moans all the fucking time. I just figure all you Canadians are fucking assholes.”
Meanwhile, Bryan Danielson cut a great promo challenging Okada to a match. Danielson says “You call yourself the Rainmaker? When you step into the ring with me, and you’re getting into the fucking DESERT… there ain’t gonna be NO RAIN.” That’s hard!
Okada officially accepted saying at Forbidden Door fans will see who is the real “Best in the World.”
With only two matches announced, this is already shaping up to be one of the biggest events of the year. The rest of the card could be all six-person tag matches and this would still be a crazy card. I can’t even imagine what other matches there could possibly be.
With Tanahashi still available, will we finally get that match-up with CM Punk? How will SANADA and MJF be positioned on the card as champions? Are we going to see a TV Title unification match between Samoa Joe and Zack Sabre Jr.? With Naito in Mexico later this month, could we be seeing him reunite with Rush and Andrade (PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!)
There are so many possibilities, which is why Forbidden Door season is one of the best times of the year! Forbidden Door happens on June 25th in Toronto and will be available on PPV and Bleacher Report.
Goth Hulk Hogan is back on this edition of Nitro, and they make sure to keep him backstage to avoid getting boo’d. Jordan is fascinated with “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan. We discuss how to handle watching and reviewing Chris Benoit, his killer match with Eddie Guerrero. We criticize The Giant’s green promo ability and start to get tired of count out finishes.
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The match everybody was talking about from RAW was the physical confrontation between GUNTHER and Kevin Owens. These two really went at it hard!
Dominick Mysterio continues to get massive heat from WWE crowds:
Seth Rollins launched his new weekly World Heavyweight Championship open challenge, successfully defending against Damian Priest:
Dark Side of the Ring is on tonight at 8pm on Vice focusing on the life of Magnum T.A.
WWE NXT is live tonight at 8pm on USA Network:
AEW Dynamite is tomorrow at 8pm on TBS:
Thursday night at 7pm Ring of Honor will stream:
Impact Wrestling is on Thursday at 8pm with this lineup:
WWE Smackdown on Friday at 8pm has this lineup:
Impact will host Against All Odds on Impact Plus, Fite TV and Impact’s Youtube:
Cody Rhodes vs. Brock Lesnar III is scheduled for SummerSlam according to Dave Meltzer. Bryan Alvarez added “It’s not just gonna be a straight match. They’ve got some sort of stip that allegedly we have not seen in a while and that means not Hell in a Cell.”
Zoey Stark and Becky Lynch advanced to be in the Women’s Money in the Bank joining Zelina Vega. On the men’s side, Ricochet, Shinsuke Nakamura and L.A. Knight have advanced so far.
Vince McMahon was backstage at RAW last night in Hartford, since its so close to his home city of Stamford, according to PWInsider. A lot of WWE executives were backstage as well. McMahon reportedly changed a good amount about the show.
Tay Melo told TMZ Sports that she was worried the crowd would boo the announcement she and her husband, Sammy Gueverra made, announcing her pregnancy. “We didn’t know what to expect. We talked about it before and I’m like, I don’t know, maybe the crowd is going to boo and we just need to be ready for it because we never know what to expect,” Melo said. “They were so excited which made it so much better. I was, like, about to cry because I was not really expecting the love. So, it was pretty special,” she continued.”The crowd’s coming back around on me,” Guevara said. “We were not always the most loved people out there. For them to give us that big reaction. Everyone’s happy, showing us the love. It was just like, overwhelming in a way where I was like, ok, we gotta get back into it.”
Mike Knox & Trevor Murdoch were the winners of the 2023 NWA Crockett Cup.
Blake Christian won the Game Changer Wrestling title at Cage of Survival 2 on Sunday from the Showboat in Atlantic City, defeating Masha Slamovich.
Here’s a very nice clip of John Cena being complementary of Edge:
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