BULLET CLUB War Dogs Makes Surprise Appearance
Wednesday’s taped AEW Dynamite show at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland featured BULLET CLUB War Dogs making a surprise appearance.
During the Trios match between Hiroshi Tanahashi & JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & “Speedball” Mike Bailey) and the Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, & Wheeler Yuta), War Dogs’ Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, Robbie X, and Gabe Kidd ran out to interfere leading to the referee getting distracted. This led to Kidd yanking Tanahashi down and crocthing him on the top rope. After some more action, Will Ospreay came out holding a body bag implying Marina Shafir was in it to distract the War Dogs. This led to Castagonoli and Moxley being distracted long enough for JetSpeed to lay them out with dives to the outside and Tanahashi hitting a High Fly Flow to Yuta for the pinfall victory.
The Bullet Club War Dogs are here!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) August 21, 2025
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Following the match, a mass brawl broke out involving The Opps, War Dogs, Darby Allin, Tanahashi, JetSpeed, and Death Riders that ended with Allin laying out the Death Riders and War Dogs with a Coffin Drop from the top of a balcony.
COFFIN DROP ON EVERYONE!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) August 21, 2025
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Luchasaurus Makes Surprise Return & Replaces Nick Wayne for Tag Match Against Copeland & Christian Cage at Forbidden Door 2025
Wednesday’s taped AEW Dynamite show also featured Killswitch making his surprise return from illness.
During the show, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage came out to the ring for an interview with Tony Schiavone. After some words by Copeland and Cage about their bad blood issues with Nick Wayne and FTR, Cage stated that this was a reunion out of necessity. This led to Kip Sabian and Mother Wayne coming out to interrupt and called Christian pathetic. Nick Wayne then appeared on video on the big screen announcing he has a broken foot and won’t be at Forbidden Door. Wayne stated that he is always one step ahead, which led to Killswitch making his surprise return and proceeded to lay out Copeland and Cage.
With @TheNickWayne out with injury, @TheKipSabian needs a new partner for #ForbiddenDoor …
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) August 21, 2025
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Afterwards, Excalibur announced that it was made official and Killswitch will be replacing Nick Wayne for his tag team match with Kip Sabian against Copeland & Cage at Forbidden Door 2025.
🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) August 21, 2025
Sunday at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
The returning Killswitch will take Nick Wayne’s spot as Kip Sabian’s partner against Adam Copeland and Christian Cage!#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/5jeo5uC7SH
This was Killswitch’s first appearance since All In 2024 in August of 2024 due to a double pneumonia illness.
Brodido vs. FTR vs. Hurt Syndicate Set for AEW Tag Titles at Forbidden Door
Wednesday’s taped AEW Dynamite show also featured the first of three newly updated matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025.
This newly updated match announced was an AEW World Tag Team Championship match of FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. Brodido (Brody King & Brodido) vs. The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) (c).
This newly updated match was setup following FTR and Brodido going to a 30-minute time limit draw in the Finals of the AEW World Tag Championship Eliminator tournament.
🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED
— WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) August 21, 2025
SUNDAY at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
Because of FTR and Brodido’s time limit draw, they will both challenge The Hurt Syndicate for the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a 3-Way!#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/6wmVjucJMi
New Stips Set for AEW World Title Match at Forbidden Door 2025
Wednesday’s taped AEW Dynamite show also featured several new stipulations announced for the AEW World Championship match for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025.
The new stipulations were the title can change hands by a DQ, the title can also change hands by a countout, and MJF no longer has to execute his Men’s Casino Gauntlet contract to get the title match at Forbidden Door.
These new stipulations were setup following a promo segment involving Page, MJF, Ricochet, Gates of Agony, and Mark Briscoe. During the show, Briscoe was seen backstage stating that he wants to get his hands on MJF and kill him over their bad blood issues. In a follow-up segment, MJF was walked up to Ricochet and the Gates of Agony and made a deal to form an alliance to deal with their common enemy Briscoe.
In another follow-up segment, AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page came out to the ring and gave a heated promo about his issues with MJF and their upcoming match at Forbidden Door. This led to MJF appearing on the big screen and revealed Mark Briscoe tied up with Gates of Agony and Ricochet standing around him. MJF threatens to light Briscoe on fire unless Hangman agrees to his three requests for their match at Forbidden Door. These three requests were that the title can change hands on a DQ or countout and that he doesn’t have execute his contract. After grabbing a lighter, MJF counted down to five leading to Hangman Page responding agreeing to the terms to save Briscoe.
.@The_MJF has a series of demands for Hangman Adam Page or he’s going to set @SussexCoChicken on fire!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) August 21, 2025
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Bozilla Announced as Stardom Rep for TNA Title Match at Forbidden Door 2025
Wednesday’s taped AEW Dynamite show also featured the third of three newly updated matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025, which takes place on August 24th at The O2 in London, England.
This newly updated match announced was an AEW TBS Championship Four-way match of Bozilla vs. Persephone vs. Alex Windsor vs. Mercedes Mone (c).
During the show, it was announced that Bozilla will be officially representing Stardom for their spot in the TBS Championship Four-way match at Forbidden Door.
ITS OFFICIAL!
— Self Made AO 💫 (@KXNGAO) August 21, 2025
BOZILLA IS THE STARDOM REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE TBS 4-WAY AT FORBIDDEN DOOR! #AEW #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/EiroxEDeDg
Current card for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025:
- AEW World Championship – MJF vs. Hangman Adam Page (c)
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Nigel McGuinness vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (c)
- AEW Women’s World Championship – Athena vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
- AEW Unified Championship – Swerve Strickland vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)
- AEW TNT Championship – Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kyle Fletcher (c)
- AEW TBS Championship Four-way match – Bozilla vs. Persephone vs. Alex Windsor vs. Mercedes Mone (c)
- AEW World Tag Team Championship Three-way match – FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) vs. Brodido (Brody King & Brodido) vs. The Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) (c)
- Lights Out Steel Cage match – Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley), The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), & Gabe Kidd vs. Will Ospreay, Darby Allin, Hiroshi Tanahashi, & Golden Lovers (Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega)
- Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Killswitch & Kip Sabian
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