AEW President Tony Khan has announced on Twitter that top superstar Adam Cole is sick and will no longer be competing on this evening’s Forbidden Door 2 pay-per-view event in Toronto. Cole was set to take on “Filthy” Tom Lawlor in a singles-match after Lawlor attacked him on this past Friday’s edition of AEW Rampage.
Due to illness, @AdamColePro isn't cleared tonight, therefore the Adam Cole vs @FilthyTomLawlor match is canceled.
Despite the change, tonight will be an amazing show!
Thank you to everyone watching #ForbiddenDoor, either here live in Toronto @ScotiabankArena or on ppv tonight!
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 25, 2023
UPDATED LINEUP FOR TONIGHT’S SHOW:
AEW World Title Match
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. MJF (c)
IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Jungle Boy vs. SANADA (c)
IWGP United States Heavyweight Title Match
Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega (c)
Fatal 4 Way for the AEW International Title
NJPW World Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata vs. Daniel Garcia vs. Orange Cassidy (c)
AEW Women’s World Title Match
NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale vs. Toni Storm (c)
Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round Match
CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima
Bryan Danielson vs. NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Kazuchika Okada
The Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara) and Minoru Suzuki vs. Sting, Darby Allin and Tetsuya Naito
Adam Page, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Eddie Kingston and NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Tomohiro Ishii vs. The Blackpool Combat Club (ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta), Konosuke Takeshita and Shota Umino
The Zero Hour Pre-show: Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament First Round Match
ROH World Women’s Champion Athena vs. Billie Starkz
The Zero Hour Pre-show
Stu Grayson vs. El Phantasmo
The Zero Hour Pre-show
Mogul Embassy (Swerve Strickland, ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Toa Liona and Kaun) vs. Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero, Trent Beretta) and El Desperado
The Zero Hour Pre-show
United Empire (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion TJP, Jeff Cobb, Kyle Fletcher) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, & BUSHI)
