AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door takes place today from the O2 Arena in London, England, starting with the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show at 11:30am EST. / 8:30am PST. across AEW’s digital and social media outlets, leading into the pay-per-view main card kicking off at 1/12c, streaming live via Prime Video, Triller TV, PPV.com, YouTube and other platforms.
Scheduled for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: London is AEW World Champion Hangman Page vs. MJF, AEW Unified Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Swerve Strickland, AEW World Tag Team Champions The Hurt Syndicate vs. FTR vs. Brodido, Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Killswitch & Kip Sabian, AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm vs. Athena, TBS Champion Mercedes Moné vs. Alex Windsor vs. Persephone vs. TBA, IWGP World Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Nigel McGuinness, TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher vs. Hiromu Takahashi, Lights out steel cage match with Darby Allin, Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi vs. Death Riders, Gabe Kidd & Young Bucks, AEW Trios Champions The Opps vs. Clark Connors, Robbie X, Drilla Moloney, Triangle of Madness & Megan Bayne vs. Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander, Harley Cameron, Queen Aminata, Cru, Hechicero & Josh Alexander vs. Paragon, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado, as well as Ricochet & Gates of Agony vs. Michael Oku & JetSpeed.
Featured below are complete AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: London results from Sunday, August 24, 2025. The following report was written by PWMania.com reporter Matt Boone (@MattBoone0709) as the show aired live from 11:30am – 8pm EST.
AEW X NJPW FORBIDDEN DOOR: LONDON RESULTS – AUGUST 24, 2025
And the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show is officially off-and-running with Renee Paquette, RJ City, Jeff Jarrett and filling in for Bryan Danielson, who isn’t there yet, Madison Rayne. They introduce themselves and then run down the lineup for the show as the official match graphics flash across the screen.
Cru, Hechicero & Josh Alexander vs. Paragon, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado
They continue to run down the lineup, stopping to show a video package or two, before sending things down to ringside, where Excalibur and Ian Riccaboni welcome us to the first match on the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show. Out comes the Cru duo of Lio Rush and Action Andretti.
Don Callis comes out next. Fans loudly chant “F**k Don Callis!” for several seconds as he slowly makes his way down the ring by himself. Out next comes Cru’s partners from The Don Callis Family, Josh Alexander and Hechicero. Callis cuts off the ring announcer to personally introduce Hechicero.
Coming out with Hechicero are Lance Archer and Rocky Romero. Fire pyro explodes out of the steel cage hanging above the ring, eliciting gasps from the crowd and reactions from the commentators. The first team is in the ring and ready to rock and roll.
Out come their opponents, with IWGP Junior Light Heavyweight Champion El Desperado coming out first. He stops and the music changes to bring out Paragon duo Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly. Finally, out last is their partner, Yuya Uemura. They foursome head to the ring and it’s time to get going.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with the first match of the 13 bouts advertised for today’s special event. Alexander and Uemura kick things off for their respective teams. After about ten minutes of great, fast-paced back-and-forth action, we get to the finish.
Taking home the victory in the first match of the show is the team of Paragon, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado. After the match, we see The Don Callis Family hit the ring for an attack. Tomohiro Ishii ends up running out to a huge pop to make the save.
Winners: Paragon, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado
Ricochet & Gates of Agony vs. Michael Oku & JetSpeed
After a quick check-in with the pre-show panel, which still doesn’t include Bryan Danielson despite being advertised, we head back down to ringside. Ricochet’s theme hits and out he comes with The Gates of Agony to a ton of heat from the London crowd.
The first team settles in the ring and the music dies down. Now the familiar sounds of Michael Oku’s entrance tune plays and out comes the RevPro standout performer to an enormous reaction from the fans in attendance. He stops and waits for his teammates.
On that note, his music dies down and the theme for his partners, JetSpeed duo Kevin “The Jet” Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey, begins playing. The three embrace and then begin making their way down to the ring for our second match of the evening.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this trios pre-show bout. Kicking things off for their respective teams are Ricochet and Oku. Ricochet disrespects Oku, who shoves him back to get things going. Oku begins taking the early offensive lead.
The Gates of Agony hit the ring and attack him from behind, before knocking the JetSpeed duo off of the ring apron. They continue to brawl with them at ringside, as Ricochet takes over on offense in the ring. The three stop and pose while seated on the ring apron.
That ends up backfiring, as while they are posing, Knight and Bailey hit dropkicks to take out The Gates of Agony. They are then joined by Oku for a triple-smack to the bald head of Ricochet. The crowd loved that. Back to the action, Oku knocks Ricochet out of the ring.
He does a running half-circle to build up momentum before planning for a leaping dive over the ropes onto Ricochet. Instead, as he finishes his half-circle, he is pounced by Toa Liona, knocking him over the top-rope, where he very nearly had a disastrous landing.
Oku avoided a scary situation and returned to the ring, where Ricochet goes for the cover, only for Oku to kick out at the count of two. Toa tags in and picks up where Ricochet left off, taking it to Oku. After knocking him down, he stops to taunt the crowd.
After some more back-and-forth action, Oku begins taking over and going on an impressive offensive run. Just as it seemed Oku was primed to get the victory for his team, the rug gets pulled out from under him, as Ricochet blasts him and steals the win for his team instead.
Winners: Ricochet & Gates Of Agony
All Star 8-Woman Tag
Triangle of Madness & Megan Bayne vs. Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander, Harley Cameron, Queen Aminata
Following a brief Lexy Nair backstage interview with Don Callis, we return inside the arena where Megan Bayne makes her way out. Next out are her partners for this scheduled All Star 8-Woman Tag bout, the trio of Julia Hart, Skye Blue and Thekla, collectively known as the Triangle of Madness.
The foursome make their way to the ring and settle inside. Willow Nightingale’s upbeat entrance tune hits next for a big pop, and out she comes. Queen Aminata is out next, followed by Harley Cameron and finally, Kris Statlander. The second four-woman team make their way to the ring together.
It’s time for our third of four scheduled bouts here on the AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: London ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show. The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. We see the babyface team start off strong, but it isn’t long before things switch.
We see the Triangle of Madness and Bayne begin to take over. When Nightingale and company begin shifting the momentum back in their favor, we see Penelope Ford play a factor from ringside. This leads to the Triangle of Madness and Bayne picking up the win.
Winners: Triangle Of Madness & Megan Bayne
Tony Khan, Dr. Martha Hart & Oje Hart Announcement
We see a quick backstage interview, where Lexy Nair is standing by with The Young Bucks duo of Nick and Matt Jackson. They walk away from her to confront the director of production for the show. They demand things change tonight in terms of their presentation and entrance elements.
Dr. Martha Hart, Oje Hart and AEW President Tony Khan come out. Khan boasts today being the largest crowd for a pro wrestling show in the history of The O2 Arena in London, England. Khan turns the microphone over to Martha, who talks about it being great to be at Forbidden Door.
She then talks about backing Hangman Page in tonight’s main event against MJF with the AEW World Championship on-the-line. She asks the crowd who they’re going for and hands the mic back to Khan. The AEW President says a few more quick words and then wraps up moments later.
It didn’t seem to be an Owen Hart Foundation Tournament announcement, but instead just a quick promo to the crowd to announce that they have broken the attendance record for a wrestling show inside The O2 Arena. The previous O2 Arena attendance record for a pro wrestling event was held by WWE.
WWE set the previous record for their WWE Money In The Bank 2023 premium live event in the venue, with 17,617 tickets distributed. AEW was at 17,573 tickets distributed when today started, with only 175 remaining. The late walk-up at the door has already been enough before the main show to apparently break the all-time record.
AEW Trios Championships
The Opps (c) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs
Once the attendance announcement segment wraps up, things are sent back down to Excalibur and Ian Riccaboni on the call, as we get ready for our fourth and final ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show match of the evening, which will also be the first championship contest of today’s show.
The Bullet Club War Dogs trio of Clark Connors, Robbie X and Drilla Moloney make their way out to the ring first. Their opponents, the reigning and defending AEW Trios Champions The Opps team of Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs and Katsuyori Shibata, make their way out next.
The bell sounds to get things officially off-and-running. We see Shibata and Connors kicking things off for their respective teams. Shibata launched Connors to the floor and repeatedly into the barricade. Back inside, Joe got a huge ovation as he tagged in and lit up Moloney with forearms.
This continued until Moloney showed off his speed with a drop down into a huge dropkick. X tagged in and immediately Joe no sold strikes and did his smooth walk off to avoid a cross body. Shibata came back in and demolished X with corner strikes and his stalling dropkick.
Wanting a PK, Connors tripped up Shibata and got revenge, sending him into the barricade. Foolishly, Connors tried a cheap shot on Hobbs, who no sold and popped Connors with a right hand. Back inside, X hit a running Shooting Star on Shibata.
He then hits a stalling senton got two. Moloney opted to rake the eyes instead of getting into a chop battle with Shibata, which was ultimately a good call. Shibata remained isolated until he no sold machine gun chops from Connors, who ran into a STO.
Hobbs finally tags in legally, as he’s a house of fire, rag dolling the War Dogs all around. Right as he lowered the straps, Connors hit a chop block and locomotion corner strikes. High-Low Spear and Cancun Tornado connected, but Hobbs kicked out. Moloney wanted a Drilla Killa, but Hobbs escaped and hit a Spinebuster.
Joe made the tag, planted X with a snap powerslam, as Gedo distracted referee Aubrey. War Dogs tried a triple team, but Shibata & Hobbs made the save. Shibata just sauntered over and calmly kicked the middle rope, crotching Gedo, as Shibata & Hobbs held off Moloney & Connors, while Joe hit X with a Muscle Buster to retain.
Winners and STILL AEW Trios Champions: The Opps
Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Killswitch & Kip Sabian
The cold open video package airs to make the transition from the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show to the main pay-per-view portion of today’s special event. The team of Killswitch and Kip Sabian make their way out accompanied by Mama Wayne. They settle in the ring for our PPV opener.
Now the familiar sounds of Adam Copeland’s theme hits to bring out “The Rated-R Superstar.” Cope makes his way out to a big crowd reaction and loud singing of his iconic entrance tune by the enthusiastic London crowd. His partner, Christian Cage, makes his way out next to a mega pop of his own.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with our first of nine pay-per-view matches scheduled for today’s special event. Bryan Danielson is on commentary alongside Excalibur and Ian Riccaboni, after missing the ‘Zero Hour’ pre-show he was advertised to co-host.
Copeland and Sabian kick things off for their respective teams. The two lock up before Cope drops Sabian to the mat. Sabian back on his feet, sending Adam to the corner with some strikes before Cope slides out of the ring. Sabian follows close behind, eventually taking a clothesline before Cope brings him back in the ring.
From there we see a tag to Christian, and they double-team Sabian before Cage stays on the attack for some revenge from the betrayal he faced. Killswitch tags in, going after the man who rechristened him, but Cage immediately tags to Copeland instead.
Cope and Killswitch trade strikes until Cope gets taken to the canvas with a thrust kick. He sends Cope to the corner, but Adam fights back to send Killswitch out for a baseball slide into the barricade. He fends off Kip Sabian, but Mother Wayne distracts him long enough for Kip to get the drop on Cope.
We see Killswitch continue the attack despite getting some less than kind words from Sabian, and the latter tags in after Cope is brought back into the ring. The crowd starts obnoxiously loud singing a similar song to the one they serenade Bayley with when WWE rolls through town.
Cope and Cage end up getting the win moments later, and sharing an embrace that gets a deafening reaction from the passionate record-breaking U.K. crowd in attendance inside the O2 Arena. Cage didn’t seem to want to hug, but did embrace with Cope and celebrate with him to the delight of the fans.
Winners: Adam Copeland & Christian Cage
TNT Championship
Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
The pre-match video package airs to set the stage for our second pay-per-view match of the evening. In what is the sixth match overall at today’s show thus far, we get our second championship contest, as the TNT Championship will be on-the-line.
After the pre-match package wraps up, we return inside the O2 Arena where NJPW star Hiromu Takahashi is introduced to a big crowd reaction. He settles in the ring as additional NJPW stars are shown in cameo appearances in the crowd.
We see the lights in the building go down. The purple entrance video graphics shine at the top of the entrance stage, as the familiar sounds of Kyle Fletcher’s theme music hits the house speakers. Out comes the reigning and defending TNT Champion, accompanied by Don Callis.
NJPW’s Walker Stewart joins Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni and Bryan Danielson on the call on special guest commentary for this TNT title tilt. Fireworks explode as Fletcher settles in the ring. Don Callis also hops on a headset to help provide vocals for this bout.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. The crowd is already going nuts with singing and chanting. Fletcher jumps off to a dominant start on offense, while Callis and even Bryan Danielson strongly sing his praises on the broadcast.
After a few minutes in control of the action, Takahashi begins shifting the momentum in his favor, and even getting the crowd strongly on his side in the process. He hits some impressive spots that gets the fans on their feet, but ultimately, it wasn’t his night.
As Takahashi was going for a tombstone-style piledriver, Fletcher counters and hits a leaping tombstone piledriver of his own. Moments later, Fletcher hits a big counter into his brain-buster finishing move for the win. With the win, Fletcher successfully retains his TNT Championship.
Winner and STILL TNT Champion: Kyle Fletcher
TBS Championship
Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Alex Windsor vs. Persephone vs. Bozilla
After the pre-match video package airs to tell the story leading up to our next match of the evening, which is a multi-promotion four-way showdown for the TBS Championship. The package wraps up and we return inside the O2 Arena, where Tony Schiavone joins Excalibur and Riccaboni on commentary.
The theme for Alex Windsor hits and out comes the first of three challengers that will be vying for the TBS Championship currently held by “Nine Belts Moné”, “The CEO” herself, Mercedes Moné. Out next is Bozilla. The commentators have been singing her praises all show long.
Persephone is the third and final challenger to make her ring entrance, before we get to the fourth and final ring walk, which is a very, very elaborate one for the reigning and defending champion. Mercedes Moné gets a big stage show.
We see several Buckingham Palace guards lining the aisle, with each holding one of her nine belts as she “CEO” dances her way to the ring. The crowd was strongly behind the three challengers as they came out, but by the time Moné’s theme hit, it was clear who the crowd favorite was going to be in this one.
The final formal pre-match ring introductions are handled by the ring announcer, and then the bell sounds to get things officially off-and-running. Windsor, Bozilla and Persephone seem to want to get Moné out of the picture straight out of the gate, as they throw her out of the ring, before turning their attention to each other.
As they begin duking it out, Moné re-enters the picture and starts to shift the momentum in her favor. Bozilla begins to shine, all-the-while the crowd is getting more-and-more behind her. As things continue, we see Bozilla being a force to be reckoned with, as the rest struggle to deal with her size and strength.
If those attributes weren’t enough, Bozilla added some aerial tactics to her arsenal, as she soars off the ropes with an enormous moonsault. Persephone ends up cutting her off the next time she tries going to the top, hoisting her up in the Razor’s Edge position and launching her massive body across the ring.
As she was celebrating this and letting out primal war screams to the crowd, the reigning champ hits the ropes and blasts her with a Codebreaker. Windsor takes over from there, but seconds later, Mercedes hits her finisher and picks up the win out of nowhere to retain.
Winner and STILL TBS Champion: Mercedes Moné
IWGP World Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Nigel McGuinness
Just the match graphic itself being shown to the live crowd gets the record-breaking audience inside the O2 Arena to explode with an overwhelmingly loud reaction. We head to the pre-match video package, which turns into a “cinematic experience” style segment at one point.
We see Nigel McGuinness come across fellow UK wrestling legend and touted in-ring technician, Johnny Saint. The two talk about their legacies and end up sitting down for a game of Chess, as Saint reminds McGuinness who he is and what he’s capable of.
Inside the O2 Arena, McGuinness makes his way out to a thunderous ovation from the record crowd. He stops and embraces Johnny Saint and yet another UK wrestling legend, Marty Jones. They share a hug and a quick word before McGuinness settles in the ring, where the crowd breaks out in song-style chants.
Now the theme for the reigning and defending IWGP World Champion hits, and out comes Zack Sabre Jr. to a pretty damn impressive crowd reaction himself. He makes his way to the ring to a big introduction by “The Dapper Yapper” Justin Roberts and the NJPW ring announcer.
It’s time for our fourth title tilt of the evening, as the IWGP World Championship is on-the-line in this one, following previous title tilts today thus far that have included the TBS Championship, the AEW Trios Championships and the TNT Championship all being defended and retained by the reigning champions.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one, which has the most electric crowd atmosphere of the show thus far. Fans break out in a deafening “Holy sh*t!” chant before they even touch. “This is Wrestling!” chants follow, again, before any wrestling is actually done.
NJPW’s Walker Stewart joins Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni and Bryan Danielson on the call on special guest commentary for this one, marking his second call of a match thus far at today’s show. The two immediately begin trading chain wrestling both standing and on the ground, showing off their respective technical prowess’.
We see Daniel Garcia trying to push the ropes forward to help his friend, and the ref spots this and tells him off for it as Nigel gets to his feet once again. This leads to an exchange of uppercuts between both men. The champ is slightly busted on the nose as the exchange intensifies, leading to ZSJ being sent to the ropes.
A clutch by Nigel gets a near-fall of his own, and both men go for lariats with the challenger prevailing from the ropes for a close two count. Short-arm lariat gets Nigel another two count, before Zack catches him with a crucifix pin for a near-fall as well. This ends with Nigel going for a hold on the champ that backfires.
As he goes for the hold, Sabre counters with a hold of his own as the ref is forced to deal with Daniel getting too close to the action. The action heads to the ropes before Zack breaks free, mouthing off with Garcia who tells him to “go lose your title” as Sabre goes up top, only to get caught with a Tower of London.
Following an exchange of pin-fall attempts, this one ends seemingly out of nowhere when Sabre manages to keep Nigel’s shoulders down just long enough to get the three count and the victory to successfully retain his IWGP World Championship.
Winner and STILL IWGP World Champion: Zack Sabre Jr.
Jamie Hayter Returns
We shoot backstage, where we see Thekla and Queen Aminata are still brawling after fighting to the back during the multi-woman match earlier in the show. They fight their way out inside the arena again, where we hear loud chants of “Fight Forever!”
The rest of Triangle of Madness end up making their way out, giving Thekla the numbers advantage. They beat down Aminata until out of nowhere, Jamie Hayter’s theme hits. The crowd explodes as she makes her return after months on the sideline due to injury, clearing the scene of the heels.
AEW World Tag-Team Championships
The Hurt Syndicate (c) vs. FTR vs. Brodido
Tony Schiavone gets on the house microphone to announce the official record-breaking attendance for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door: London of 18,992 fans inside the O2 Arena. The pre-match video package then airs to tell the story leading up to our three-way tag-team title tilt.
Back inside the arena, the theme for FTR hits to bring out Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler. The duo make their way to the ring accompanied by Big Stoke. The second set of challengers, Brodido duo of Bandido and Brody King, make their way out next.
We hear the bad-ass Westside Gunn theme for the reigning and defending AEW World Tag-Team Champions hits to bring out The Hurt Syndicate duo of Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin. “The All Mighty” and “The Standard of Excellence” make their way out accompanied by MVP.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. FTR go after Lashley while Brodido attack Shelton, the match quickly spilling to the outside as a result. Lashley fends off FTR as Benjamin fights back against Bandido and King, but things turn back in favor of the challengers.
Lashley gets sent into the ring steps while Benjamin takes a hurricanrana to the floor by Bandido. Bandido and Dax enter the ring, with the latter taking a head-scissors by Bandido for a near-fall. Harwood fights back for a chop and a double-team alongside Cash Wheeler, before Lashley tags himself in for a double clothesline on FTR.
Lashley hits a delayed vertical suplex on Harwood before tagging in Benjamin for more damage. Dax tags to Bandido to save himself, and the ROH World Champion sends Lashley through the ropes for a dive to the outside. Benjamin comes back in and takes Bandido down hard before the tag is made to Lashley.
He quickly drops Bandido for a near-fall before Cash breaks it up. Benjamin sends Bandido out of the ring off a tag, bringing him back as we get a loud ”oh f–k The Revival” chant. Lashley comes back in to knock Brody off the apron before landing a boot on the neck of Bandido, and then tagging Benjamin back in.
Bandido fights back with a thrust kick before looking for a tag out, but FTR drops to the floor to avoid the tag with Brody still down on the floor. “We want Brody” chants break out. Lashley goes for a Hurt Lock, but Bandido breaks free in time as Brody makes it back to the apron.
From there, we see the tag made to Benjamin who keeps Bandido isolated, but he gets taken down allowing for a hot tag to the King. He runs roughshod over everyone else in the ring as Dax sneaks a tag in, only to be dropped by Brody for a near-fall. He sent Dax into Wheeler in the corner but Benjamin intervenes.
He gets sent to the corner by King, who lands a cannonball on FTR. He looks over at Shelton, but Bobby hits the ring and the crowd chants “meat” as the big boys battle it out. They go back and forth until Lashley drops Brody, who gets back to his feet, sending Lashley over the top rope to the outside.
Benjamin catches him before taking out Wheeler and Bandido, and dodges an attack by King for a set of German suplexes. A hat trick of suplexes keeps King down on the canvas. Benjamin gets hoisted up by Brody, and Cash takes advantage by hitting a Shatter Machine on Shelton. Cash manages to keep Lashley out of the ring.
Brody sends him out as well, with the Hurt Syndicate catching him in their arms just as Brody hits a dive on all three men. Bandido gets back in the ring, grabbing Dax and setting him up on the turnbuckle for a slam sending both men onto the pile for good measure. Hurt Syndicate back on their feet, laying out their challengers.
They then send Brody back in the ring. Step up knee strike followed by a spear on Dax, but two men in NJPW hoodies take Lashley out of the equation as Dax gets a near-fall. The hooded men continue keeping Lashley isolated as Dax land a nasty chair shot on Brody, and the hooded men reveal themselves as Ricochet and Gates of Agony.
Their plan to assist FTR into getting the win doesn’t go as they expected, as FTR’s pin attempt after this only gets a two-count. They leave as FTR are fended off on the turnbuckles, leading to Bandido getting a close near-fall. Seconds later, he gets the real deal, picking up the three count for the win. We have new champs.
Winners and NEW AEW World Tag-Team Champions: Brodido
AEW Unified Championship
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Swerve Strickland
The pre-match video package airs to tell the story of events leading up to our next match, which once again features a title on-the-line. Up next, AEW Unified Champion “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada defends his title against Swerve Strickland.
Jim Ross joins Excalibur, Ian Riccaboni and Bryan Danielson on the call for special guest commentary for this featured bout. Swerve Strickland’s catch-ass theme hits first, and out comes the former AEW World Champion accompanied by Prince Nana.
They settle in the ring and the music dies down. The lights fade down and we hear the coin drop. On that note, out comes “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada, accompanied by Don Callis.
