- Maxwell Jacob Friedman kicks off the show. He's quickly
interrupted by Daniel Garcia, the hometown boy. Daniel
Garcia puts MJF over as somebody who gave him advice and
inspiration. Max returned the favor by saying he genuinely
believes Daniel Garcia is working his way to be on his
level. Max challenges Danny to a match for Wembley Stadium.
They're interrupted by Will Ospreay. Ospreay grants Danny an
International Championship match for next week but also
teases that it could be for the AEW World Championship as
well. Danny agrees. Max's pissed because he got
overshadowed. Garcia goes to answer Max's challenge
officially and Max cuts him off and tells him to worry about
next week first. Max storms off and Danny dances for his
hometown crowd.
- Backstage, Swerve Strickland is pissed off that Will is
offering World Championship matches when he hasn't even won
the championship and tells Will that he better be prepared
when they team up later tonight against Gates of Agony.
* Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, Titan, & Hiromu
Takahashi) def. Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio
Castagnoli, & Wheeler Yuta) by disqualification when Jon
Moxley uses a steel chair on Takahashi.
- A brawl breaks out and Tetsuya Naito comes out and attacks
Mox. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring, Shingo
attacks Yuta and begins giving him elbow shots to the neck
and head area. Bryan Danielson, who chose to stay on
commentary when all of this fighting was going on, finally
leaves the booth to ensure that Shingo doesn't damage Yuta
further.
* Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round: Jay White def. Rey
Fenix
- Christian Cage, Mother Wayne, Killswitch, and Nick Wayne
come out to confront the World Trios Champions.
- Matthew and Nicholas Jackson are backstage. They say the
Wild Card in the Owen is someone from The Elite.
- The Acclaimed's Anthony Bowens, Max Caster, and "Daddy
Ass" Billy Gunn hit the ring. They cut a promo on The Young
Bucks, The Elite (The Bucks and Kazuchika Okada) come out
and challenge the three of them to a match at AEW x NJPW
Forbidden Door. Billy Gunn deflects and says he has a
different partner for his team in mind and shows the video
of Hiroshi Tanahashi on the video wall. Tanahashi says he's
coming to open the door and calls himself Scissor Ace.
- Kyle O'Reilly, Mark Briscoe, and Orange Cassidy cut a
promo backstage.
* Toni Storm, Mariah May, and Mina Shirakawa def. Saraya,
Anna Jay, and Harley Cameron
- After the match, Mariah May tries to get them to toast
champagne and initially, Mina and Toni do. Then, Mina tries
to hit Storm with the champagne bottle and ends up hitting
Mariah. Storm seemed more genuinely concerned for Mariah at
this moment.
- Mercedes Mone vs. Stephanie Vaquer promo package plays.
Mercedes is shown backstage. She says that she's going to be
at Collision to watch Stephanie's match against Lady Frost
up close.
- Chris Jericho Big Bill, and Bryan Keith are out. Keith has
his arm in a sling and cannot compete at Forbidden Door.
Jericho says he has a backup plan and throws it to her video
of Minoru Suzuki. Jericho thinks that Suzuki has agreed to
be his partner instead the video shows Suzuki challenging
Jericho to a match for the FTW Title at the pay-per-view.
Samoa Joe, Katsuyori Shibata, and HOOK come out to make fun
of Jericho. Jericho ends up slapping Joe and that leads to a
fight between Joe's crew and The Learning Tree. The actual
status of the match on Sunday night was not clarified.
* Zack Sabre Jr. def. Kyle O’Reilly
- There was a lot of extra activity before and after this
match. Roderick Strong, Matt Taven, and Mike Bennett are
once again ringside watching Kyle. This time they're joined
by Gabe Kidd. Gabe Kidd & Roderick Strong vs. The Infantry
was a match that was announced for this Friday's episode of
Rampage. However, there were also disagreements between Gabe
and Roderick when Roderick was showing concern for Kyle.
Orange Cassidy tried to check on Kyle as well after the
match but he was pulled away by Zack who was then flanked by
Shane Haste & Robbie Eagles. Suddenly, Tomohiro Ishii
arrived to provide some assistance for Cassidy. This whole
time, Gabe just yelled at everybody from the apron.
* Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay def. Gates Of Agony
(Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona)
- After the match, Strickland and Ospreay stare down again.
Osprey steals the title from Strickland's shoulder again but
this time Swerve lays him out for his troubles.
