Update On Negotiations For CM Punk vs KENTA At Forbidden Door Breaking Down On KENTA’s Side

It looks like the two masters of the Go 2 Sleep will not clash at Forbidden Door this Sunday, despite there being significant attempts to make the match happen.

Despite a litany of tweets from KENTA over the course of the last few weeks, it was not until recently that the match was taken off the table.

Fightful Select now reports that the negotiations broke down over the deal recently, before KENTA tweeted out that the match would never happen.

Fightful Select has learned that KENTA expressed to NJPW and AEW that he isn’t facing CM Punk at the Forbidden Door show, as word started to make way around Collision this past week. As of the first episode of Collision, AEW was considering who CM Punk should face at Forbidden Door, or if he’ll even be wrestling on the show. NJPW sources had confirmed to Fightful that KENTA and CM Punk had been planned for the event, but as of this weekend, it wasn’t happening. We weren’t given a reason as to why, but were told that by the time KENTA had tweeted “Kenta vs Punk is never going to happen” that was in response to him actually being out of the match.  Based on what we’ve heard, Punk was open to the match and there were other options being evaluated for him as of Saturday.

Fightful Select

With multiple top NJPW talents still set to be booked for the event, we will have to wait and see what other matches are added before Sunday’s event.

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