Updated 2025 AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door Card and Predictions for Match Order

For the fourth consecutive year, the best of AEW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling will converge this weekend for a supershow known as Forbidden Door.

While the first three editions of Forbidden Door were held in North America, Forbidden Door 2025 will emanate from London and feature many of the biggest names in pro wrestling, including Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, Toni Storm, Mercedes Moné, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, "Hangman" Adam Page, MJF and Jon Moxley, among others.

Several major titles will be on the line at Forbidden Door as well, including both the AEW World Championship and IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, which are the top prizes in the respective promotions.

Ahead of the inter-promotional extravaganza, here is everything you need to know about Forbidden Door, including a full rundown of the card, the projected match order and a closer look at the top matches you won't want to miss.

Where: The O2 Arena in London

When: Sunday, Aug. 24 at 1 p.m. ET

Watch: Prime Video

Forbidden Door 2025 Card and Projected Match Order

• TBS Championship Four-Way Match: Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Alex Windsor vs. Persephone vs. Bozilla
• AEW World Tag Team Championship Three-Way Elimination Match: The Hurt Syndicate (c) vs. FTR vs. Brodido
• TNT Championship: Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
• IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Nigel McGuinness
• AEW Women's World Championship: Toni Storm (c) vs. Athena
• AEW Unified Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Swerve Strickland
• Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Killswitch & Kip Sabian
• AEW World Championship: "Hangman" Adam Page (c) vs. MJF
• Lights Out Steel Cage Match: Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Darby Allin & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jon Moxley, The Young Bucks, Claudio Castagnoli & Gabe Kidd

Top Forbidden Door Matches to Watch

"Hangman" Adam Page vs. MJF

In his first pay-per-view title defense since winning the AEW World Championship from Jon Moxley at All In, "Hangman" Adam Page will defend against MJF at Forbidden Door.

Page pressured MJF into cashing in his guaranteed title shot at Forbidden Door, but he may have gotten more than he bargained for in doing so.

MJF viciously attacked Page on a recent episode of Dynamite and vowed to win back the title he once held for a record 406 consecutive days.

AEW quickly built up some bad blood between Page and MJF, which should ensure that there is plenty of intensity in their match even though the rivalry just started.

Page and MJF have been two of AEW's biggest and most popular stars since the company's inception, meaning the atmosphere should be great for the first one-on-one match between them since Revolution back in March.

5-on-5 Lights Out Steel Cage Match

Forbidden Door will play host to what could ultimately be one of the most chaotic matches in AEW history.

Multi-man matches pitting star-studded teams against each other are nothing new in AEW, as Anarchy in the Arena, Blood and Guts, and Stadium Stampede have been among the promotion's marquee matches over the years.

However, Forbidden Door will mark the first time AEW has ever delivered a five-on-five steel cage match featuring some of the biggest names in AEW and NJPW.

To make things even more interesting, the cage match is of the "lights out" variety, meaning anything goes and there are no limits to what the combatants can do to each other.

Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega and Darby Allin will all continue their rivalry with The Death Riders and The Young Bucks in the match, plus it will be legendary Japanese star Hiroshi Tanahashi's last-ever match in the United Kingdom, making it an even bigger spectacle than it already was.

Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Killswitch & Kip Sabian

For the first time since 2011, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage will be on the same side in a tag team match at Forbidden Door.

While they were initially enemies when Copeland joined AEW, they buried the hatchet by saving each other from attacks, resulting in a hug and a renewed friendship and alliance.

They were slated to face Kip Sabian and Nick Wayne at first, but Wayne had to pull out of the match due to injury, resulting in the return of Killswitch, who was part of Christian's Patriarchy stable.

Cage renamed Luchasaurus to Killswitch and made him do much of his bidding, so he figures to be out for revenge at Forbidden Door.

Dating back to their time in WWE as Edge and Christian, however, Cope and Cage are among the greatest tag teams in pro wrestling history, and there is a great deal of anticipation surrounding them teaming up and winning, just like the old days.