Tetsuya Naito Revealed as Sting & Darby Allin’s Mystery Tag Partner, Updated Forbidden Door II Card

Tetsuya Naito Revealed as Sting & Darby Allin’s Mystery Tag Partner

Saturday’s AEW Collision show featured New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Tetsuya Naito making a surprise appearance in AEW.

During a promo segment on the show, Chris Jericho interrupted Tony Schiavone’s introduction for Sting and Darby Allin and demanded to know who was their mystery tag team partner. Jericho boasted about how good his friendship wuth Minoru Suzuki is and claimed that Sting’s team had no chance of beating Le Suzuki Gods at Forbidden Door II. Jericho showed off how close of a friend he was with Suzuki with the exchange of a “besties” handshake.

Sting and Allin then came out and after some banter, Allin told Jericho that their mystery partner is someone that Jericho knows since this person had beaten Jericho in the Tokyo Dome. Sting whispered the name of Jericho’s ear causing Jericho to become visibly upset. Tetsuya Naito’s entrance music played and he came out to the ring revealing that he was the mystery partner. Jericho and Naito confronted each other in the ring and Jericho walked out of the ring but not before saying something to Naito.

The man who will be teaming with Sting & Darby Allin is…Tetsuya Naito!
Watch #AEWCollision LIVE on TNT!@IAmJericho | @Sting | @DarbyAllin | @s_d_naito | @suzuki_D_minoru pic.twitter.com/pUU1djMArO

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 25, 2023

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Updated Card for Forbidden Door II

Following Saturday’s AEW Collision show, here is the updated card for AEW and NJPW’s co-promoted Forbidden Door II event on June 25th in Toronto, Canada:

• IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Open Challenge match – Jungle Boy Jack Perry vs. SANADA (c)
• IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship – Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega (c)
• AEW World Championship – Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. MJF (c)
• AEW International Championship Four-way match – Daniel Garcia vs. Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Kasuyori Shibata vs. Orange Cassidy (c)
• AEW Women’s World Championship – Willow Nightingale vs. Toni Storm (c)
• 2023 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima
• 10-Man Tag Team match – Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, & Wheeler Yuta), Konosuke Takeshita, & Shota Umino vs. The Elite (Hangman Adam Page, The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson)), Eddie Kingston, & Tomohiro Ishii
• Le Suzuki Gods (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, & Minoru Suzuki) vs. Darby Allin, Sting, & Tetsuya Naito
• Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada
• Adam Cole vs. “Filthy” Tom Lawlor
• Zero Hour pre-show: 2023 Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament First Round match – Athena vs. Billie Starkz