Swerve defeated Will Ospreay at Forbidden Door.
It is nonetheless Swerve’s Home.
The principle occasion of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door noticed the conflict of two titans in AEW which are each at present champions. Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland has been a match for the ages since Ospreay signed with AEW earlier this 12 months. The 2 have confronted off in opposition to each other a couple of instances of their careers, nevertheless it’s arduous to argue that they are each at their peak at present. With Ospreay holding the Worldwide Championship, it laid the groundwork for the primary AEW World Champion and Worldwide Champion concurrently if one in every of them dethroned the opposite. Luckily, the reign of Swerve is not over simply but.
The match produced a number of moments that will make it a match of the 12 months contender, together with Ospreay giving the champion a hurricanrana off the barricade. Ospreay hits the Types Conflict nevertheless it’s not sufficient to place away Swerve who hits him with a Swerve Stomp. Once more, not sufficient. They commute with a number of close to falls till Swerve hits the Swerve Stomp onto the announce desk.
Onto the announcers desk!
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Because the match progresses, Don Callis makes an attempt to get Ospreay to make use of soiled ways to place him away. Very similar to the Kenny Omega match, he palms Ospreay a screwdriver however Ospreay refuses to make use of it. Swerve makes use of the distraction to hit one other Swerve Stomp which Ospreay kicks out of! Swerve lands the Home Name adopted by a JML Driver for the win to retain the AEW World Championship.
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Swerve is now on the street to AEW All In London the place, if he stays champion, he’ll face the winner of the Owen Hart Cup Event in a world title match. Bryan Danielson superior earlier within the night time the place he’ll go on to face PAC on AEW Dynamite. The opposite aspect of the bracket consists of Jay White and Rey Fenix in addition to Jeff Jarrett and the Wild Card, presumed to be Hangman Adam Web page. Hangman makes essentially the most sense given their historic blood feud and a brand new vignette focusing a lot on Swerve, however there is a case to be made for Jay White and Danielson as nicely. Moreover, in the course of the match, MJF was watching from backstage so it will seem that their storyline goes to be revisited ahead of later now that he is again in AEW.
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