Tomohiro Ishii pulled from AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door due to injury
Tomohiro Ishii has been pulled from Sunday’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door card after suffering a knee injury.
NJPW announced today that Ishii suffered a left knee injury and is not medically cleared to wrestle on the June 26 pay-per-view. Ishii had been scheduled to take part in the AEW All-Atlantic Championship match, also featuring PAC, Miro, and Malakai Black. Ishii will be replaced by Clark Connors in the match.
Tomohiro Ishii was injured in his AEW #AllAtlantic Title NJPW Eliminator Tournament match with @ClarkConnors. With Ishii not medically cleared, he forfeits & Connors will now go to #ForbiddenDoor on Sunday to face #Miro, #PAC & @malakaiblxck to crown the 1st All-Atlantic Champion pic.twitter.com/IhI9inTnOv
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 23, 2022
Ishii had defeated Connors in a tournament final match on Tuesday at the New Japan Road event in Tokyo to determine NJPW’s representative in the All-Atlantic title bout.
When oppurtunity knocks, you answer that door. Wishing Ishii a speedy recovery. See you Sunday, Chicago. LET'S GET WILD!!
— Clark Connors (@ClarkConnors) June 24, 2022
Here is the updated Forbidden Door lineup:
AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door, Sunday, June 26 —
- Interim AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jay White (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page vs. Adam Cole
- AEW All-Atlantic Championship: Malakai Black vs. PAC vs. Miro vs. Clark Connors
- AEW Women’s World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Toni Storm
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships / ROH World Tag Team Championships: United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan) (c) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) (c) vs. Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero)
- IWGP US Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Orange Cassidy
- Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino
- Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA
- Bullet Club (Young Bucks, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo) vs. Dudes with Attitudes (Sting, Darby Allin, Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi)
- Buy-In: Max Caster & Gunn Club (Billy Gunn, Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) vs. LA Dojo (Yuya Uemura, Alex Coughlin, Kevin Knight & The DKC)
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