Britt Baker returned to AEW for the primary time since September of 2023.

Mercedes Moné and Stephanie Vaquer made historical past at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door in a title for title match. Each champions regarded to write down their names within the historical past books because the first-ever lady to carry each the TBS and NJPW STRONG Girls’s Championships on the identical time. Moné was initially speculated to grow to be the inaugural NJPW STRONG Girls’s Champion final yr however she suffered an unlucky damage that will maintain her out of motion for a number of months. Throughout that event, she defeated Vaquer to advance to the finals. Initially considered career-ending, Moné returned to the ring at Double or Nothing in Might. 

The match was onerous fought by each ladies, however because the match wound down Vaquer went for a Dragon Screw and excessive knees within the nook nonetheless Moné refuses to offer in. She tries to flatten the NJPW STRONG champion, locking within the crossface however Vaquer is ready to counter. She reverses Moné who reverses her, but it surely simply traces her up completely for the Mone Maker. Vaquer counters, however Moné locks it in once more, straight into the crossface which Vaquer faucets out of. Earlier than Moné can rejoice, Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. returns to stare down the champion.

Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. is BACK!

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Baker has been absent for AEW for fairly just a few months whereas she battled an undisclosed damage. AEW President Tony Khan just lately spoke about Baker’s potential return within the close to future, and it appeared like solely a matter of time earlier than she made her approach again to the squared circle. Her final match was in September of 2023 towards Kris Statlander for the TBS Championship. She has been a mainstay of AEW since its inception in 2019 as she was the primary lady signed to the corporate. She has been concerned in lots of prime storylines since, together with as a former AEW Girls’s World Champion. With Moné signing to AEW earlier this yr they’ve but to cross paths however earlier than Baker had left, she was a part of an “AEW Originals” kind storyline, so it will be fascinating to see if this storyline is way of the identical between them.

AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2024 Card

AEW World Championship: Swerve Strickland (c) vs. Will Ospreay

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito

Winner Takes All: AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Moné vs. NJPW STRONG Girls’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer

AEW Girls’s Championship: “Timeless” Toni Storm (c) vs. Mina Shirakawa

Owen Hart Cup Match: Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi

AEW TNT Championship – Ladder Match: Jack Perry vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo vs. Dante Martin vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Konosuke Takeshita

The Elite vs. The Acclaimed and Hiroshi Tanahashi

MJF vs. Hechicero

Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Orange Cassidy

Chris Jericho, Large Invoice, and Jeff Cobb vs. Samoa Joe, Hook, and Katsuyori Shibata

Zero Hour: Los Ingobernables de Japon vs. Lucha Brothers and Místico

Zero Hour – Owen Hart Cup Match: Mariah Might vs. Saraya

Zero Hour: Kris Statlander and Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale and Tam Nakano

Zero Hour: Kyle Fletcher vs. Serpentico

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