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00:00Jack Perry is the new TNT Champion, Mercedes Monet is the New Japan Strong Champion, and

00:05the crowd didn't like it, and Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland had a banger. What a

00:10shocker. I'm Pete Quinnell, and this is my review of AEW and New Japan's Forbidden

00:13Door 2024.

00:14There were 5 matches on the zero hour pre-show, and my sum total of it is…it would make

00:22for a pretty great episode of Rampage. Kyle Fletcher beat Serpentico in a matter of minutes

00:26with a Brain Buster on the Turnbuckle, The House of Black defeated Private Party, Kyle

00:29O'Reilly and Tomohiro Ishii in Gabe Kidd and Roderick Strong which featured some great

00:33Brodie King and Ishii moments and ended with Brodie King winning decisively, Will O'Nightingale

00:37and Tam Nakano beat Chris Statlander and Momo Watanabe, with Nakano hitting the Hammerlock

00:41German Suplex for the win, Mariah May rolled up Soraya to advance in the Women's Owen

00:45Hart Tournament in a fun little match, and the main event of Zero Hour was an incredibly

00:49fun 6 man tag match of Titan, Haramu Takahashi and Yota Tsuji vs. Mystico and the Lucha Brothers.

00:54Titan stole the show for me, having some insanely good lucha spots mirroring Rey Fenix,

00:59but it was Mystico who picked up the win with La Mystica on Titan in the end, a fun, if

01:04largely inconsequential Zero Hour.

01:06The main card kicked off with Echicero taking on MJF in his hometown of Long Island, and

01:10this was my first time watching Echicero, and he was awesome. He did great work playing

01:13off the crowd, and his unique roll throughs into submissions and holds was really fun

01:17to watch.

01:18Unfortunately, the match seemed fairly superficial to me, MJF playing the hits for the crowd,

01:23only one with the Panama Sunrise and a Brain Buster with the bout never really reaching

01:27a higher gear.

01:28Which is fine, not every match needs to be a 5 star classic that goes for 30 minutes,

01:32but I would have potentially expected a little more from the opening match to start the night

01:35off hot. Still a good match, just felt like it was lacking that little something to take

01:39it to the next level.

01:40After a propaganda video package putting over how the Young Bucks essentially created the

01:43Forbidden Door, we had the Elite of Matthew and Nicholas Jackson and Kazuchika Okada vs

01:47Scissor Ace of The Acclaimed and Hiroshi Tanahashi.

01:51Now, this might sound very silly, but going into the show I was looking forward to this

01:55match well enough, I thought it was a nice way to get Tanahashi on the card, cos you

01:58have to, it's Forbidden Door, but I thought it would be a nice superficial little six

02:02man tag.

02:03But silly old me forgot that opposing Tanahashi was freaking Kazuchika Okada, which meant

02:08this match had so much history to elevate it that much more.

02:11And the match was built around those two, purposefully being kept apart the whole match

02:14until the end, which was a perfect way to book it.

02:17Anthony Bowen saying Scissor Me Daddy Ace is actually quite funny, and Nicholas Jackson

02:21stealing Max Caster's headphones and yelling over the crowd's chant I Can't Hear You

02:25You Dumbasses also got a laugh out of me.

02:27At the end of the match, Tanahashi cleared house and looked like he might have enough

02:30to come back into it himself after The Acclaimed were laid out, but Okada nailed him with one

02:34Rainmaker and that was all it took to seal the deal.

02:37The next match on the card was…

02:39Dude, do you mind?

02:40I'm trying to record my review.

02:42It's fine.

02:44No, no, I'm recording.

02:47Right now.

02:48The camera's right there.

02:49Dude, why you gotta be such a control freak?

02:52Make sure to subscribe to our new video game channel, Control Freaks, the link is in the

02:56description below.

02:57Up next was the Men's Owen Hart Tournament first round match of Bryan Danielson vs Shingo

03:02Takagi, and while the previous match was built around two competitors' history together

03:05and their eternal feud, this match was built around one thing.

03:09Danielson's neck is big hurty, coming out with suction cup marks on his shoulders and

03:13enough tape to hold up a bridge, Danielson's weak spot was simply displayed and Takagi

03:17took one look at it and said, ha ha ha, yes.

03:20Takagi hit a brutal looking swinging neckbreaker off the apron which incapacitated Danielson

03:25for a while, and throughout the whole match it kept coming back to his neck over and over

03:29again.

03:30It's not complicated storytelling, but I'll be damned if it isn't compelling.

03:33Takagi hit a Pumping Bomber and Made in Japan, but Danielson kicked out, and as he was lining

03:38up for the Bisaiko Knee, there was some fantastic facial selling, where he almost looked uncertain,

03:43scared that his neck might not hold up like he thought after all, and shoutout to the

03:46commentary team for also pointing this out.

03:48He hit the knee, but Takagi kicked out, and playing off their previous spot where Takagi

03:51was able to counter it, Danielson won with an armbar following a Triangle Choke.

03:56Danielson moves on in the tournament and will face Pac on Dynamite, where no doubt, he will

03:59once again come down with a severe case of neck.

04:02Following this was Tony Storm vs Mina Shirakawa for the custody of Mariah May at ringside.

04:06And the AEW Women's Championship I suppose.

04:08Storm entered in a Statue of Liberty cosplay, which was a great choice, and the match itself

04:12was a decent little bout.

04:14Nothing super special or styled out about it, but nothing bad either.

04:17Just a good, solid wrestling match.

04:19Storm ended up winning with the Storm Zero, and after the match, the question of who will

04:22Mariah May choose was answered.

04:25Both of them.

04:26She made Storm and Shirakawa shake hands, then hug, and then the three of them kissed.

04:31Sure, why not.

04:32Up next was Orange Cassidy vs Zack Sabre Jr., and this is going to sound like such a headass

04:37take, but you know the neck snap spot Zack and a couple of others do, like where their

04:41opponents head in between their feet and then they twist.

04:44It gets me.

04:45Every time.

04:46For a split second I'm like OH THEY JUST BROKE THEIR NECK, and then half a second later

04:49I realise it's pro wrestling.

04:51Anyway, I love that spot, and this match had it, so obviously it's a 5 star match.

04:54These two are great professional wrestlers, and while I think the first 10 minutes of

04:57this wasn't necessarily the best work either of them had done, the last few minutes had

05:01me on the edge of my seat.

05:03There was also a fantastic looking diving DDT from Cassidy, which might be one of the

05:06best ones I've ever seen.

05:08Like Zack went right on his head, like, ooh.

05:12Regardless, the sequence of roll up upon roll up upon roll up at the end was brilliant,

05:15ending with Zack tying Cassidy up in all sorts of knots and forcing him to tap out with,

05:19I mean I want to say it was an arm bar, but it was also like a knee bar and a heel hook.

05:23Zack's pretty good, isn't he?

05:25So, Chris Jericho's match was next, and I think it might have been the worst match

05:29on the card.

05:30I'm not saying those two things are necessarily linked, but they also definitely are.

05:33Look, I don't like this learning tree gimmick, I think it's obnoxious and not in a fun

05:38way, but having said all that, hook pinning Jericho with a better looking Judas Effect

05:42than I think Jericho was ever hit did put a smile on my face, so mission accomplished

05:46I guess.

05:47This match was fine, it would have felt right at home on a Dynamite, and it wouldn't have

05:51been the best match on that show either, it just didn't do a lot for me.

05:54In complete contrast however, the TNT Championship Ladder match might have been my match of the

05:58night if it weren't for a certain main event later on.

06:01This match was absolutely nuts, and I loved every second of it.

06:04Mark Briscoe, Konosuke Takeshita, Dante Martin, ELP, Lio Rush and Jack Perry all put on stellar

06:09performances, honourable mention to Takeshita, who once again proved why he deserves some

06:13sort of meaningful push.

06:14He hit a Brain Buster on an upturned ladder on Dante Martin, he hit a Powerbomb onto a

06:19ladder in the corner on Lio Rush, he hit a Blue Thunderbomb through two tables on the

06:23outside, and the crowd went absolutely ballistic when they thought he was going to win.

06:27Also special shoutout to Mark Briscoe, who I think wanted the award for Most Insane Spot

06:32of the Night, where he jumped off a chair, off the middle rope, and did a senton through

06:36a table on the outside, which also had a ladder and a Takeshita lying on it.

06:40He also did a dive off a ladder set up on the apron over the corner of the ring onto

06:45another table on the outside.

06:47You get the picture.

06:48It was carnage.

06:49Jack Perry won in the end, who I think is the right winner, and this was the best kind

06:52of car crash wrestling.

06:54I had so, so much fun.

06:56Now from the most fun match of the night, to the most curious.

06:59Mercedes Monet vs. Stephanie Vaquer for both TBS and New Japan Strong Women's titles.

07:03The match itself was perfectly fine, nothing super standout, but a really solid match.

07:07But the crowd weren't into it, whether it was because they were on a comedown from the

07:11previous match, or they just weren't feeling the wrestling itself, the reactions were limited

07:15for this one, and they only really came alive when Vaquer hit a big move or two.

07:19Which brings us to the next point.

07:21As the match progressed, the boos for Mercedes Monet got stronger and stronger, despite her

07:25being positioned as the babyface for this match, and by the time the finish came, there

07:29were boos ringing around the whole arena as she made Vaquer tap out.

07:32But quickly, time to move past that, as they hurriedly brought out a returning Britt Baker,

07:37who stared down Monet from the entrance ramp and left.

07:40A fun angle, and a feud I'm looking forward to, I just wonder how they're going to address

07:43this reaction to Mercedes Monet, and if it's an isolated incident, because I don't think

07:48it is.

07:49WrestleDynasty was announced for January 5th in the Tokyo Dome, a new show made up of wrestlers

07:53from New Japan, AEW, CMLL, Ring of Honor and Stardom, so Forbidden Door but in New

07:59Japan basically.

08:01Should be fun.

08:02The semi-main event was Jon Moxley vs Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship,

08:06and this match was also pretty good.

08:08I feel like I'm repeating myself a little bit, but a lot of these matches were just

08:12pretty solid, nothing incredible or amazing, but just good solid grabs.

08:16Moxley hit a Death Rider on Naito with a very late kickout, and in frustration Moxley nearly

08:21used the chair before being stopped by Red Shoots.

08:23It gave Naito enough time to recover and hit a subsequent Destino on Mox, and Naito won

08:28back the title.

08:29I wish I had more to say, but this was...good.

08:32And the main event was Swerve Strickland vs Will Ospreay for the AEW World Title, and

08:36the crowd, and me, were hot for this one.

08:39It started off with a sequence of counters and counter counters, and the crowd went absolutely

08:43insane.

08:44Both men are so over, and they absolutely feel like the future of this company.

08:47While this match definitely had its fair share of story going into it, this one was more

08:51about the wrestling itself, with the two men knowing each other so well over the years.

08:55As Swerve set up for a Piledriver onto the barricade, Ospreay did a Hurricanrana off

08:59it.

09:00There was an incredible counter sequence that ended with a Styles Clash, and a Swerve Stomp

09:03onto the commentary table which made a lovely noise too.

09:06Swerve hit that Piledriver onto the barricade he tried to hit earlier, it's simple set

09:10up and payoff storytelling, but it works.

09:12Ospreay came back into it though, hitting an Oz Cutter for a nearfall, a Stormbreaker

09:15nearfall.

09:16Swerve hit the Hidden Blade on Ospreay, but the Swerve Stomp missed, and when Ospreay

09:20tried to hit another Hidden Blade, Swerve dodged and he hit the referee instead.

09:24This was the only slight negative of the match for me, when Don Callis came out and tried

09:27to give the screwdriver to Ospreay, Prince NaNa got involved and Ospreay nearly stabbed

09:31him with it, but he decided against it because he's a babyface.

09:34And this is what ultimately cost him, as Swerve hit the House Call and a Swerve Stomp for

09:38the nearfall, I thought that would easily be the end of the match, but no, another House

09:42Call and a big pressure is what sealed the deal in the end.

09:45Swerve retained and it was a fantastic match, but there is easily enough left in these two

09:49for a part two down the line, with no interference or shenanigans, and I for one, cannot wait.

09:54Forbidden Door had nothing actively bad on it, at worst it was just fine, with a couple

09:58of bangers peppered in across the show.

10:01This is a 4 out of 5 show for me.

10:03But something's been bothering me throughout this whole review, and I just can't shake

10:07the feeling there's something...what is it?

10:10What's...

10:11Right.

10:12I need to go talk to Oli.

10:15Oli, I need to ask you something.

10:20Let me just finish clicking thumbs up on all the Pipebomb Greater Than Maths comments.

10:25Thumbs up.

10:26It's not as bad as you'd think.

10:29Yeah, it's actually about that's what I wanted to talk about.

10:32What's up?

10:33Do you know what t-shirt you're wearing?

10:36Sure do.

10:37Pipebomb Greater Than Maths.

10:38No, you're wearing it the wrong way around.

10:41It's on the back?

10:43No, no, I can feel the print right here.

10:46I'm not going to look at it.

10:47I'm not going to look at it and check.

10:49No, the words are messed up.

10:51There's a typo on the merch?

10:52We've been selling typo merch?

10:54No, your t-shirt is wrong.

10:56No, you're wrong Pete.

10:58I thought you were on my site.

10:59Pipebomb is Greater Than Maths.

11:01Look, just look in the mirror when you get a chance, okay?

11:07Thumbs up.

11:10Thumbs up.

11:12Thumbs up.

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