AEW and NJPW are the primary crossover event of Forbidden Door, but Tony Khan wanted to bring in some STARDOM talent also.
While speaking on the Forbidden Door media call, Khan explained how balancing schedules for multi promotional events can be tough.
“When we lined up the event, I learned that Stardom had scheduled an event the same day as Forbidden Door so a lot of their talent would not be available. It’s sometimes an issue, in the promotion of this event, that there are other events happening in Japan at the same time. I can only imagine how challenging that is because we have our TV over here. Certainly, when our wrestlers have had to go to Japan, we miss them and that can be hard. For example, Wheeler Yuta in the Super Juniors last year and Eddie Kingston is in the G1 this year. It can be challenging at times when you lose wrestlers for an extended period of time. We’ve sent Willow to participate in New Japan shows, but most of the stuff Willow has done with New Japan as been in America, so it hasn’t been detrimental to her ability to appear on AEW TV, which is great. She’s a great star for us and rising star who has been involved in a lot of shows recently.”
Tony Khan
Tony would go on to say he still hopes to work with STARDOM in the future.
“With STARDOM having their own event scheduled the same day as Forbidden Door, they found it very challenging to have participation in the show, and I completely understand that as a promoter. In the future, I would like to work with STARDOM more, and hopefully, if the logistics and the scheduling work out, there are more things we can do. Through our shared friends and partners at New Japan Pro-Wrestling, I do understand there is interest from STARDOM in working together. The key is finding dates when we’re not doing shows at the same time when the talent can crossover and work together more. It’s definitely something we did talk about and are very open to in the future.”
Tony Khan
Forbidden Door will feature matches such as Okada vs Danielson and Ospreay vs Omega amongst other matches that will be sure to entertain fans this Sunday.
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