Forbidden Door (2024) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and supershow co-produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the Japan-based New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It was the third annual Forbidden Door event and took place on June 30, 2024, at the UBS Arena in the Long Island hamlet of Elmont, New York. The event also featured wrestlers from NJPW's sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, as well as Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), a partner of both AEW and NJPW.
Background
The Forbidden Door event takes its name from a term often used by AEW when referring to working with other professional wrestling promotions. On April 11, 2024, AEW announced that the third Forbidden Door would take place on June 30, 2024, at UBS Arena. Rocky Romero, a vice president for both AEW and NJPW, confirmed that wrestlers from Stardom and CMLL would also participate.
Event Summary
Fifteen matches were contested at the event, including five on the Zero Hour pre-show. The attendance was approximately 11,000, and the buy rate was estimated between 110,000 and 116,000.
Main Event
- Swerve Strickland defeated Will Ospreay to retain the AEW World Championship.
Other Prominent Matches
- Tetsuya Naito defeated Jon Moxley to win the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
- Mercedes Moné defeated Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match to retain the AEW TBS Championship and win the NJPW Strong Women's Championship.
- Jack Perry defeated Konosuke Takeshita, Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin, Lio Rush, and El Phantasmo in a Ladder match to win the vacant AEW TNT Championship.
- "Timeless" Toni Storm defeated Mina Shirakawa to retain the AEW Women's World Championship.
- The event also featured the return of Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. , who had been on hiatus since September 2023.
Production and Storylines
Storylines were primarily advanced on AEW's weekly television shows Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision, as well as at NJPW, Stardom, and CMLL events. The AEW World Championship challenger was determined via a Casino Gauntlet match on the May 29, 2024 episode of Dynamite, which was won by Will Ospreay. The AEW TNT Championship was vacated after Adam Copeland legitimately injured his leg at Double or Nothing, leading to the ladder match at Forbidden Door.
