Hiroshi Tanahashi will wrestle Jon Moxley for the Interim AEW World Championship on Sunday, a title match that headlines the joint AEW–New Japan Pro-Wrestling pay-per-view. And who better than Tanahashi to main event Forbidden Door, a wrestling term he popularized—unexpectedly—in December 2019.
“I will be the star of Forbidden Door,” Tanahashi says through a translator. “I mean, I did think of the name after all.”
At the time, Tanahashi was less than a month away from his Wrestle Kingdom 14 match against reigning AEW champion Chris Jericho. The belt wasn’t on the line, but Tanahashi told Tokyo Sports that if he won the match, he would open the “forbidden door” by seeking an AEW title shot.