AEW Forbidden Door 2025 Review | Darby Allin Can Climb A Mountain BUT CAN'T CLIMB A CAGE š
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Solomonster is in a battle of survival with a colony of YELLOW JACKETS but he still reviews AEW Forbidden Door 2025, which doesn't feel so "forbidden" anymore.Ā But the show still offered some good action, along with some nonsense mixed in, new tag team champions crowned and a Michael Oku spot on the PRE-SHOW that stole the show and is something we never need to see ever again.
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| 0:00.0 | just shy of 19,000 fans of the O2 in London tonight. |
| 0:05.4 | AEW had for what was the highest wrestling audience ever in that building, beating out money in the bank two years ago. |
| 0:14.3 | That was for Forbidden Door. |
| 0:16.3 | This show is called Forbidden Door. |
| 0:18.6 | And honestly, of all the Forbidden Door shows they've done, I believe this is now the third one, right? |
| 0:24.3 | Third or fourth one. This is the one that felt the least like Forbidden Door. And at one point, three years ago, it felt like a novelty because we had all of these talents coming in from other promotions, mainly New Japan, |
| 0:38.9 | but now it's CMLL and it's stardom and it's this revolving door of talent. |
| 0:42.8 | And it was a very novel concept for a major promotion here in this country |
| 0:46.6 | to be bringing in talent in that way and featuring them from other promotions. |
| 0:51.4 | And so it was kind of a cool concept and you can get some matches that you otherwise would never be able to see. And the thing is, AW now, on a weekly basis, basically opens the forbidden door. The forbidden door never closes. And when that happens, it's no longer forbidden. So the show loses a little something special because of that. Now, they put 19,000 people in the building tonight. |
| 1:12.3 | They did, you know, I'm sure a huge gate. |
| 1:14.2 | They made a lot of money off of it. |
| 1:16.2 | Tony Khan is not going to stop doing it, but probably doesn't need to be forbidden door anymore since we get it on a regular basis here. |
| 1:25.0 | This show tonight was when this show was over, it was a good show. It was a good show because we had a lot of really good wrestling on this show. That's your thing. You got tons of matches on the show tonight. Even the pre-show had four matches, and they tried to stuff as many people in there as they possibly could. There was some very good wrestling on the show tonight, some solid wrestling. |
| 1:47.3 | This was not a show that when it was over, I came away from it thinking, you know what, that was a great show. |
| 1:53.6 | This was one of the best AEW shows of the year. |
| 1:56.0 | It wasn't. |
| 1:57.3 | We had a main event tonight of 10 on, it was it was five on five 10 men lights out steel cage match |
| 2:04.7 | that was technically the main event and we had the AEW World Championship on the line as well |
| 2:10.6 | hangman adam page and mjaf what we had in this main event it was will osprey and his team with |
| 2:17.1 | Darby allen and Hiroshi |
| 2:18.3 | Tanahashi and Kenny Omega and Cody Abushi, who we have not seen since all in Texas. |
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