#And if Mox or Hangman shows up to challenge Okada

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With Battle in the Valley and Elimination Chamber on the same night, I'm gonna be so many different levels of bisexual my broken body might implode.

[nextstopwonderland]

Not trolling at all! Scoopers have been hinting at it for months:/ I assumed they would make someone else join and Bryan would become the Regal figure, but I don't see that happening right now

Once again: don’t see that at all. Some ‘scoopers’ I think desperately want the bcc to just be a regular faction that would follow a trajectory that means an eventual breakup bc they never want to realize this isn’t some sort of kayfabe group, they’ve always been a shoot and they aren’t about to break up and even when Bryan isn’t on tv full time he could still just transition into that regal role without them replacing him or without the group having a falling out or breaking up

Swerve just called out the entire bcc. Mox isn’t going to stand for that shit (he’s on the damn poster for this week) and Claudio is going to be on the card too. As I’ve said in my posts I fully believe we are going to have a fever pitch this week with whatever happens to Yuta and it’s gonna propel Bryan into full on ANGER MODE and i think mox is gonna challenge swerve and Claudio is gonna be in protector mode too.

Who the hell knows we may even see Bryan/or mox and Claudio vs okada and hangman in a tag match prior to the wales show even tho hangman wouldn’t want to tag with okada which would just make things more wild

And I’ve seen ppl take Nigel’s insinuations to mean it means trouble in bcc land too and I think that’s the most basic interpretation ever. You’ve got Bryan basically talking about how bcc is a unit and how much he’s been training with Yuta and yet Nigel’s trying to draw a wedge between them. Claudio is def frustrated with himself and I def think he will prob face Bryan again (without any sort of kayfabe fallout between the two of them) but I think we are more likely to see bcc ppl vs Nigel and I think it’s surprising more ppl aren’t calling the heel commentator out for doing what he’s supposed to be doing: instigating, rather than acting like he’s actually telling any sort of truth

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Forbidden Door - 5 Things the AEW x NJPW Supershow Should Do

So it wasn't a UK Show, but AEW and NJPW have dismantled the Forbidden door and turned it into a PPV. Unsurprisingly and rightly so people are losing their minds with the Dream Match potential both companies can provide, but given how it's just 1 day rather than NJPW's multi-day format, we'll have to expect that not every match will make the card.

But at the very least, here's 5 things I think AEW and NJPW should do to keep the PPV booking strong

1. Utilize STARDOM

New Japan doesn't have a women's division, which is reasonably worrying fans that Forbidden Door may not feature any women's matches at all. This could still be the case, and if it is they better have an All-Women's supercard around the same time, but I hope TK will at least be able to convince NJPW to utilize their parent company's ownership of World Wonder Ring Stardom.

On top of being a place Tony Khan can get some pointers about proper investment towards women's booking, a lot of AEW's women have history with Stardom - including Hikaru Shida with current top champion Syuri, who tagged together in their early career. AEW's platform can serve to further spotlight Stardom and fantastic roster including but not limited to KAIRI, Utami Hayashishita, Starlight Kid, AZM, Momo Watanabe, Giulia, Natsupoi, Saya Kamitani, Konami, and former ROH Women's Champion Mayu Iwatani who can easily serve classics alongside some of AEW's best and brightest.

2. Don't repeat Feuds

Windy City Riot has already entertained a card with AEW talent featured frequently, and the conceptual Forbidden Door has already allowed some personnel to feud already. But Forbidden Door the PPV should try to retread as little existing feuds as possible, that doesn't mean we should avoid every dream match possible, but a fresh card of first-time bouts would certainly be as if not more enticing than seeing matches we've already seen booked on AEW and NJPW.

3. Reward those who know Backstory

What makes AEW great is its use of longstanding narrative, and there are a lot of NJPW and AEW wrestlers with shared history. The obvious is of course the Elite and the Bullet Club but also loose connections like Andrade El Idolo being Los Ingobernables compared to LIJ (which'd make Andrade vs Naito a possibility) and CIMA's appearance in early AEW and current NJPW, while retreading water was hinted against, the matches we do book should do its best to establish the past each competitor may have with each other, since it will enhance fans of these wrestlers' investment into the matches and provide stuff we can build towards until the PPV itself.

4. Don't Simply Make it AEW vs NJPW

The supercard will obviously cater towards dream matches the brands alone cannot simply do; Punk/KENTA , Darby/Despy and ZSJ/Danielson has already been thrown about, but it would probably be better if AEW and NJPW didn't try to employ the Survivor Series approach. This means it's best not to do Champion vs Champion either, because it invites tribalism and people trying to dig into which brand 'wins' which will put a damper on things, if anything we could have individual title matches with the other challenger (so like Cole/Okada and Switchblade/Hangman). In addition, the shared history means we can mix it up; Best Friends are part of Chaos, Shota Umino can easily side with Mox and Regal's Hard Nut Sons the BCC, Archer is still technically Suzuki-Gun too and there is a shout for the Elite being welcomed back into Bullet Club, which means that there is room to have AEW and NJPW blend together and still produce Dream Matches - so long as they don't do the old NJPW trick of overdoing the multi-man matches.

5. Set up for More

We can easily get caught up with giving fans everything immediately, but this is not All In. We should always offer room to do more, in the short and the long term, the fact that we're getting this Supercard means that the working partnership between both companies can still thrive afterwards and be even bigger than before, incorporating ROH, NWA, TJPW, DDT and Impact in the future would definitely serve as goals to work with. Dream Matches can still come beyond this PPV, after all the Forbidden Door is just the start.