Despite me complaining about Forbidden Door’s effect on AEW’s TV shows last week, it can’t be denied that this year’s edition was a great show. We got a bunch of great matches (and also whatever Tetsuya Naito and Jon Moxley were doing), capped off with an amazing main event match between Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay.

My grades for the matches:
-Kyle Fletcher defeats Serpentico (no grade)
-The Kings of the Black Throne defeat Private Party, Gabe Kidd and Roderick Strong, and Kyle O’Reilly and Tomohiro Ishii (4/5)
-Willow Nightingale and Tam Nakano defeat Kris Statlander and Momo Watanabe (4/5)
-Mariah May defeats Saraya (2/5)
-The Lucha Brothers and Mistico defeat Los Ingobernables de Japon (5/5)
-MJF defeats Hechicero (3/5)
-The Elitie defeat The Acclaimed and Hiroshi Tanahashi (3/5)
-Bryan Danielson defeats Shingo Takagi (5/5)
-Toni Storm defeats Mina Shirakawa (4/5)
-Zack Sabre Jr. defeats Orange Cassidy (5/5)
-Hook, Katsuyori Shibata, and Samoa Joe defeat The Learning Tree and Jeff Cobb (3/5)
-Jack Perry defeats Konosuke Takeshita, Mark Briscoe, Lio Rush, Dante Martin, and El Phantasmo (4/5; would have been higher if Takeshita or Briscoe or anyone that wasn’t Perry won)
-Mercedes Mone defeats Stephanie Vaquer (4/5)
-Tetsuya Naito defeats Jon Moxley (1/5)
-Swerve Strickland defeats Will Ospreay (5/5)