AEW Dynamite Notes: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kyle Fletcher for TNT Title, Copeland & Cage vs. Wayne & Sabian, AEW World Title, and Lights Out Steel Cage Matches Set for Forbidden Door, Copeland & Christian Cage Reunites, HOOK Return Vignette, 8/16 Collision & 8/20 Dynamite Cards

AEW
Aug 13, 2025

MJF vs. Hangman Page for AEW World Title Announced for Forbidden Door 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the first of four new matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025.

This new match announced was an AEW World Championship match of MJF vs. Hangman Adam Page (c).

This new match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over MJF and Page’s bad blood issues with each other over the AEW World title. During tonight’s show, MJF and Page came out to the ring for a heated promo segment that ended with Page successfully managing to goad MJF to cash-in his match contract for the AEW World title at Forbidden Door 2025.

Lights Out Steel Cage Match Announced for Forbidden Door 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the second of four new matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025.

This new match announced was a Lights Out Steel Cage match of 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).

This new match was setup following Moxley’s victory over Kevin Knight in a singles match that led to the Death Riders attacking Knight afterwards and a brawl breaking out involving “Speedball” Mike Bailey and Darby Allin trying to fight them off. This led to the Death Riders laying out both Bailey and Allin and after Castagnoli stuffed Allin into a body bag and gave him an airplane spin slam, he unzipped the bag so that Yuta could place a chair around Allin’s neck.

Before anything else could happen, Ospreay ran out and attacked the Death Riders clearing them out.

As the Death Riders tried to escape through the crowd, Ospreay grabbed a microphone and stated that if Moxley didn’t want to accept Allin’s challenge, then he will issue his own and challenged the Death Riders to a Lights Out Steel Cage match at Forbidden Door. Ospreay stated that he was going to get some of his old friends to be his partners, implying him reuniting with the United Empire.

In a follow-up segment, Renee Paquette interviewed Ospreay about his match challenge and Ospreay responded that he had a chat with Tony Khan in his office who he said was thrilled about the match and made it official. Ospreay then stated that he had a talk with his “old boss” and he needs to confirm it but he will be teaming up with Allin and Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Steel Cage match.

In another follow-up segment, Tony Schiavone ran down some of the new match announcements for the card of Forbidden Door and announced that Ospreay’s team will also feature the Golden Lovers while Moxley’s team will also feature The Young Bucks and Gabe Kidd.

Adam Copeland & Christian Cage Reunites on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured Adam Copeland and Christian Cage reuniting as a team.

This was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Copeland saving Cage from the hands of The Patriarchy but wanting Cage to “go find yourself” before he’d accept a reunion with him. During tonight’s show, Copeland defeated Stokely by disqualification. This led to Stokely & FTR attacking Copeland resulting in Cage running out with the spiked bat Spike only to be quickly followed by Nick Wayne with a chair in a hand. Cage and Wayne both swung at each other with Cage getting the upperhand. This then led to Kip Sabian trying to get involved only to get laid out by a spear from Copeland. After clearing out the ring, Copeland and Cage confronted each other leading to Copeland hugging Cage and accepting Cage back as a friend.

HOOK Return Vignette Airs

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured a video airing teasing HOOK making his return from injury soon.

Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kyle Fletcher for TNT Title Set for Forbidden Door 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the third of four new matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025.

This new match announced was AEW TNT Championship match of Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kyle Fletcher (c).

Prior to the start of the All Star 8-Man Tag Team match between The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) & Don Callis Family (Fletcher & Josh Alexander) and The Conglomeration (Hologram & Tomohiro Ishii) & Brody King, Takahashi’s music played revealing him as the both the mystery tag partner for King’s team and as the mystery challenger for Fletcher’s TNT title at Forbidden Door.

Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Nick Wayne & Kip Sabian Announced for Forbidden Door 2025

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured the fourth of four new matches announced for the card of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025, which takes place on August 24th at The O2 Arena in London, England.

This new match announced was a tag team match of Adam Copeland & Christian Cage vs. Nick Wayne & Kip Sabian.

This new match was setup earlier in the show following Copeland and Cage officially reuniting together and Wayne and Sabian trying to attack them during Copeland and Cage’s brawl with FTR and Stokely.

Current card for AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025:

  • AEW World Championship – MJF vs. Hangman Adam Page (c)
  • IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – winner of Hechicero/Nigel McGuinness/Lee Moriarty/Daniel Garcia 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 – winner of Stardom qualifier vs. winner of CMLL qualifier vs. Alex Windsor vs. Mercedes Mone (c)
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship – winner of Eliminator tournament 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. Nick Wayne & Kip Sabian

Current Card for Next Week’s Show

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show also featured several new matches announced for the card of this week’s AEW Collision show on August 16th and next week’s Dynamite show on August 20th at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.

All of these new matches were setup following promos, storyline angles, and match card graphics throughout the show.

This week’s Collision show will be taped on Thursday, August 14th at The Andrew J Brady Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In regards to the new matches for Collision, these were:

  • $100K Four Way Fight match – Julia Hart vs. Kris Statlander vs. Anna Jay vs. Penelope Ford
  • JetSpeed (Mike Bailey & Kevin Knight) vs. Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta)

Current card for August 16th AEW Collision show:

  • IWGP World Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Technical Spectacle Four-way match – Hechicero vs. Nigel McGuiness vs. Lee Moriarty vs. Daniel Garcia
  • $100K Four-way match – Julia Hart vs. Kris Statlander vs. Anna Jay vs. Penelope Ford
  • JetSpeed (Mike Bailey & Kevin Knight) vs. Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta)

Current card for August 20th AEW Dynamite show:

  • AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Tournament Finals – FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. Brodido (Brody King & Bandido)
  • Athena & Mercedes Mone vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm & Alex Windsor
  • Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley to speak
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