10 Times Wrestling Opened The Forbidden Door

10. AEW X NJPW

That door was slammed shut for quite evident reasons. Cody, Hangman Page and the Young Bucks revealed the formation of AEW and its logo outside of the Tokyo Dome. Kenny Omega left New Japan Pro Wrestling after an entire expansion, not something the staunchly traditional promotion would simply do, was mapped around his star power.

Kenny Omega and the Elite left New Japan Pro Wrestling, in part, because the level of remuneration was quite shocking - particularly in the case of Omega, whose drawing power was such that it made such an expansion viable on the first instance. Former President Harold Meij was thought of as an "idiot," one AEW source recently revealed. His inability to keep Omega - and subsequent unwillingness to work with or even take seriously AEW - erected what became known as the 'Forbidden Door'. Every bad feeling intensified; the Elite had cause to leave, but the manner of the exit...

Meij's exit unlocked the door, and Tony Khan's canny measurement of the landscape cracked it ajar; he recognised that KENTA was available in Florida to work around ongoing travel restrictions, and that New Japan were keen to utilise Jon Moxley in a long overdue defence of his US Title.

A tremendous future looms, if the world can sort itself the f*ck out. If you're the type of anti-vax dipsh*t that might prolong everything, just think: you're closer than ever to Kenny Omega Vs. Shingo Takagi.

Also, vaccines don't change your DNA and you'd have to be a moron to think that.