NJPW announces Forbidden Door-esque Wrestle Dynasty event with AEW, CMLL & ROH
Yet another door is opening up in pro wrestling as NJPW has announced their own version of Forbidden Door for this January.
During Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, a NJPW promo aired for Wrestle Dynasty on Sunday, January 5th — the day after their annual Wrestle Kingdom event at the Tokyo Dome where both events will now take place.
In the promo, AEW, Ring of Honor, CMLL and Stardom were featured in addition to shots of AEW stars like Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson and Kazuchika Okada.
In the clip, it was stated “The door finally opens on Japan.”
Announced in February 2020, Wrestle Dynasty was originally slated as a supershow to be held in 2021 at Madison Square Garden and was to be the company’s first-ever independently promoted event in the venue. However, the pandemic resulted in several delays and eventually the show’s cancellation.
NJPW has been no stranger to cross promotion through the years, proven by their third-such event with AEW at Forbidden Door and several Multiverse events with Impact Wrestling and their long-running Fantastica Mania events with CMLL.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.