Here's your wrestling news for June 27th, 2022.
And your headlines for today include John Moxley, crown the interim aew world champion after a violent battle at
Forbidden Door Katsuyori Shibata makes a surprise appearance at aew X N J P w Forbidden Door, Attacks top faction,
former WWE superstar, debuts and replaces Daniel Bryan.
to face Zach saber Jr.
At aew X N J P w.
Forbidden.
Several aew and WW E stars react to Cesaro's debut at Forbidden Door.
When did Tony Khan reach out to Claudio Castagnoli fan thrown out of aew X and J P w Forbidden Door for taking
photos of TAY CONTI from behind security drags fans out of arena in wild scene, during aew X, N J P w forbidden.
Jay white retains the IWGP world heavyweight champion in odd finish at Forbidden Door former WWE star, possibly injured top aew
stars throw shade at WWE after Forbidden Door victory, thunder, Rosa retains, and hard hitting showdown with Tony storm and more.
We're kicking off today with aew new Japan Forbidden Door, which saw the crowning of a new interim, aew world champion.
Moxley.
And Tanahashi met in a violent affair that saw the former busted wide open fairly early on, but that didn't stop either man, from
pushing the other to the limit, Moxley scored the death rider on the ACE to end the match sealing his second world title in aew.
And should he keep hold of the championship and eventual unification bout with cm punk.
This match only happened because of punk's injury.
As prior to that, the aew world champion had planned to face Tanahashi at Forbidden Door one on one.
The new champion had little time to celebrate as he and his opponent were attacked by Chris Jericho and Daniel Garcia.
Fortunately the heels were quickly ran off by other wrestlers making for an explosive end to the historic Paperview
moxley may not have had time to celebrate, but he is now once again on top of AEW's roster and we'll have to see
what lays in store for the new interim aew world champion.
Forbidden Door also saw will Osprey retain the IWGP United States heavyweight title against
orange Cassidy, but his work wasn't done there.
Post match Osprey alongside the Ossy open tag team continued in assault on Cassidy and were able
to dispatch of Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta.
The Beatdown only ended with the surprise appearance of Katsuyori Shibata who ornate thunderes
response from the fans in the United center.
Taking out Aussie opens Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis Shabbat confronted Osprey in the ring, hitting a corner drop kick, and
going in for a rear naked choke Aussie opens, saved their United empire leader by pulling him out of the ring while Shabbat
was gifted sunglasses and a thumbs up by the grateful casidy.
From Shabbat's actions last night, it looks like new Japan will book a match between him and Osprey for the I
w G P United States heavyweight title in the near future.
But with the title belt still in juice, Robinson's possessions, perhaps a triple threat is in store.
One of the most highly anticipated matches of the night was the bout between Brian Danielson and Zach saber Jr.
Uh, match that underwent major changes.
In the run up to the show, it was confirmed that Danielson wouldn't be able to compete.
And fans anticipated who would be its replacement debuting for aew as fans eagerly awaited, the newcomers
arrival, Cesaroo emerged under his former ring name.
Claudio Castagnoli to an immense reaction.
The Swiss wrestler hit a running upper cut and God style neutralizer within 10 seconds of the bell.
And for the next 18 minutes, the two put on an incredible match.
Claudio Castagnoli arrival, not only marks a new addition for aew but he is the latest to join the Blackpool combat club who
are currently feuding with the Jericho appreciation society.
The two sides will face off this week in a blood and guts match.
And with Danielson confirmed to be off the show.
Claudio Castagnoli will be moving on to a massive match after his impressive debut.
It wasn't just the fans who were excited to see Claudioand aew as several stars of the company reacted as did some names from
WWE on Twitter, Xavier woods tweeted an emphatic let's go.
And while he didn't state, what exactly he was excited about, the tweet matched up with the time
of Castagnoli debut from a raw women's champion.
Becky Lynch took a more direct route sharing a screenshot of Claudio debut at Forbidden Door a bold move for a WWE superstar to make.
Claudiohas had just one match in aew but he's off to an impressive start and it remains to be seen.
If he can follow this up with this week's blood and guts match, it's safe to say that Castagnoli arrival in aew is being
treated as a big deal with his WWE name, trending on Twitter.
After his debut, during the Forbidden Door post show media scrum, Tony Khan discussed how he brought Claudioto aew saying he
reached out before it was 100% confirmed that Brian would be out.
Khansaid he had a pretty good idea that a lot of changes had to be made to the card and said he reached out to the
Swiss wrestler on June 2nd to guarantee his appearance.
The aew president said that if Brian was able to wrestle, he would've saved Claudiofor July 20 third's death before
dishonor event, the upcoming show from Khan's other promotion R.
Tony Khan clearly wanted the former Cesaro, no matter which promotion he was booked for.
And now the AEW / ROH owner has one of the most gifted in ring talents at his disposal.
The United center in Chicago, Illinois was packed forForbidden Door, but one fan's time at the event was shortlived the opening
match of the night saw Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara and Minoru Suzuki take on Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta and Shota Umino,
and as expected, Tay Conti was at ringside to cheer on her fiance.
Conti took to Twitter after the match to praise AEW security for removing a weird fan who had got close to the barricade
to take pictures of her from behind the fan, reportedly walked up several rows just to get behind shots of the
young wrestler until security quickly stepped in the match.
saw Guevara, Jericho and Suzuki get the win to kick off the show in a major way, but Tay Conti had her own battle outside of the ring.
Given that one fan was kicked out for taking things too far.
You'd think that the rest of the crowd would be on their best behavior, but that wasn't the case during the main event between
Moxley and Tanahashi two fans made a huge scene in the crowd, putting on a violent show of their own security, quickly got involved.
And the two men were dragged out of the arena.
And while one guy tried to throw some more punches at the guards, the other couldn't because he was literally lifted off the ground.
The two men didn't get to see MoxLey's coronation his interim, aew world champion, nor did they get to see what came after the match.
As the show ended a bitterly for these two troublemakers or fromForbidden Door.
Now as Jay white retained the I w GP world heavyweight championship on the show to feeding three formidable opponents, the switch
blade retained against Kazuchika Okada, Adam Page and Adam Cole.
But the manner in which he retained has some fans confused.
Instead of a big finish with his signature blade runner on Adam Cole, white simply pinned Cole without hitting him with the move.
And several Twitter reactions have suggested that Cole might have been injured.
Ryan Alvarez later tweeted that he doesn't have a lot of details, but that the former NXT champion is definitely injured
as white exited after the match, the young bucks and Kyle O.
Riley made their way out to the ring and had a brief exchange with switch blade before checking in on Cole.
Cole being injured yet again is the last thing the X WWE superstar needs as he was recently
pulled from a huge tag match due to an injury.
And despite his talent in the role, Cole is getting quite a reputation in aew nobody wants to have now forbidden
door may, but a crossover of aew in new Japan talent.
But that couldn't stop the all elite promotion from taking shots at WWE even with another company there to work with FTR focus
was on WWE as they made reference to their former employer.
After the show on Twitter, Dax Harwood said it's been three years since he was shaving cash wheelers back, which did occur during
one segment featuring the then revival on WWE programming cash.
Wheeler was quick to interject saying that actually he shaved DAXs back and accolade.
We are not sure he should be proud of.
The infamous shaving scene on the April 29th, 2019 raw is considered by many to be a low point for the tag team and
arguably what fueled their desire to leave WWE marking the latest most successful chapter in their careers.
FTR had a huge night at Forbidden Door emerging victorious in the winter takes all three way match.
The match saw FTR face the United empire and Roppongi Vice with the winners leaving the ROH world tag
team champions and I w G P U tag team champions.
During the match.
Harwood was led to the back by trainers.
After looking to injury his shoulder on an elbow drop, leaving Wheeler to fight on alone did return in time to hit the big rig on
Rocky Romero, adding the I w G P tag team titles to their collection.
Now FTR hold those championships, the world tag, team titles, and the AAA world tag team titles cementing
themselves as one of the greatest teams in decades.
And we're ending today with yet more fromForbidden Door as thunder Rosa, put her aew women's world championship on the line, the
match wasn't an inter promotional bout, but saw Rosa face aew's Tony storm and retain against the New Zealand Australian wrestler.
Well, the first half was all thunder.
Rosa storm got her second wind later in the match.
Rosa's wind saw her pay tribute to her mentor, Dustin roads, as she used his final reckoning finisher
to win the match shaking hands after the bell.
Thunder Rosa's reign shows no signs of ending anytime.
Soon as we can add Tony storm's name to the list of opponents who have fallen to the aew world champion.