AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 Notes: Maika Advances to Vacant TBS Title Survival of the Fittest Match, Hiroshi Tanahashi Appears, Thekla Attacks Taro Okada, Jay White Returns, Mercedes Mone Wins 2026 Women’s Owen Hart Cup, Andrade El Idolo Quits Don Callis Family, Will Ospreay Wins 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Cup

AEW
Jun 28, 2026

Maika Advances to Vacant TBS Title Survival of the Fittest Match

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event at the SAP Center in San Jose, California featured one qualifying match for the Vacant TBS Championship Survival of the Fittest match.

This match was Maika defeating Skye Blue.

As a result of her victory, Maika joins Hikaru Shida, Persephone, Kris Statlander, Harley Cameron, and Queen Aminata as those who have officially qualified for the Survival of the Fittest match for the Vacant TBS Championship at this week’s AEW Dynamite show on July 1.

Hiroshi Tanahasi Makes Surprise Appearance

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured former NJPW wrestler and current NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi making a surprise appearance.

Following Shota Umino’s victory over PAC to retain the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley confronted Umino in reference to their past history with each other and the Death Riders ending their assocation with him. Before anything else could happen, Tanahashi’s music played and came out to the ring. This led to Moxley and the rest of the Death Riders leaving as Tanahashi stared them down. Tanahashi then placed the IWGP Global title around Umino’s waist for his victory celebration.

Thekla Gets Physical with Taro Okada

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured AEW Women’s World Champion Thekla getting physical again with Stardom President Taro Okada in another chapter of their over year long rivalry.

During her title match against Starlight Kid, Thekla had confronted and taunted Okada who was seated at ringside. Following her victory over Starlight Kid, Thekla was handed a pair of scissors from Triangle of Madness and proceeded to use it to yank off Starlight Kid’s mask. Thekla grabbed the mask taunting Okada and then spitted in it. Thekla then went out of the ring and went up to Okada rubbing the mask all over Okada’s face and attacked him with it for added insult.

Jay White Makes Surprise Return From Injury

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured Jay White making his surprise return from injury.

During the AEW World Tag Team match between The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) and Cage & Cope (Christian Cage & Adam Copeland), Connors shoved Cage into referee Stephon Smith to break up Copeland’s pin attempt and lay out the referee. Copeland and Connors then stared down each other and charged at each other with stereo spears knocking both of them out. Finlay grabbed the shillelagh and struck Cage with it and before he was able to do the same to Copeland, the lights turned out. When the lights came back on, the Bang Bang Gang was seen on the ramp causing Finlay to get distracted as White appeared in the ring and laid him out with a Bladerunner. White then got out of the ring and Copeland hit a spear to Finlay as the referee came back to his sense for the pinfall victory.

Following the match, White grabbed the AEW World Tag titles and handed it over to Copeland and Cage. After a brief confrontation between White and Cage, White left the ring and celebrated with the rest of the Bang Bang Gang on the ramp.

This was White’s first appearance since April of 2025 due to a broken hand and shoulder injury and surgery.

Mercedes Mone Wins 2026 Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured Mercedes Mone defeating Maya World in the Finals of the Women’s Owen Hart Cup to become the winner of this year’s tournament.

As a result of her victory, Mone will be competing for the AEW Women’s World Championship, currently held by Thekla, at this August’s All In 2026 event.

This was Mone’s second Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament victory in her AEW career.

Andrade El Idolo Quits Don Callis Family

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured Andrade El Idolo turning on MJF and the Don Callis Family.

Andrade turning his back on the Don Callis Family was initially setup over recent weeks shows over his issues with Don Callis working with MJF and not securing him a shot at MJF’s AEW World title. Near the end of the 12-Man Steel cage match between Team Briscoe and Team MJF, MJF demanded for Andrade to hold up Briscoe so that he could hit him with his Diamond Dynamite ring. This led to Andrade refusing since he remembered what happened last time he tried to help out MJF only to get laid out instead by accident. Andrade ended up reluctantly agreeing to help MJF and picked up Briscoe to hold him up. This turned out to just be a ruse and moved Briscoe out of the way and laid out MJF as he ran forward with a back fist strike.

This led to Jake Doyle arguing with Andrade over what he just did and shove him resulting in Andrade responding with a low blow kick to Doyle to lay him out. Andrade then took off his Team MJF shirt revealing another shirt underneath it that had the words “Fuck Don Fuck MJF” leading to Briscoe hitting a Jay Driller to MJF to give his team the pinfall victory. Andrade then went up to MJF and trash talked him and Callis and left the cage as Callis was angry over what just happened with Andrade costing his team the match.

Will Ospreay Wins 2026 Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament

Sunday’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 event also featured Will Ospreay defeating Swerve Strickland in the Finals of the Men’s Owen Hart Cup to become the winner of this year’s tournament.

As a result of his victory, Ospreay will be competing for the AEW World Championship, currently held by MJF, at this August’s All In 2026 event at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

This was Ospreay’s first-ever Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament victory in her AEW career.

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