So AEW Forbidden Door was an alright PPV that had some serious problems dragging it down into outright bad territory, particularly in the second half.
I mean the fact it started with a complete filler match in MJF vs Hechicero didn't help matters, then you've got Mercedes Mone's match happening way further down the card than the Women's World Title match which is nonsensical (not just because Toni vs Mina was a better match anyway), but the big offender was that pathetic excuse for an IWGP World Title match.
At least Mercedes vs Stephanie was still a good match, it just had some weirdness with the crowd seemingly being won over by Stephanie (as there were "CEO" chants before the match) then SUDDENLY there's a guy in the crowd with a Boston Celtics shirt getting the crowd riled up...seemingly to provide the commentators a reason for the crowd turning on Mercedes (as the boos for her got louder after this), other than them just being won over by Stephanie. I don't know, the timing there just felt very suspicious to me.
As for Jon Moxley vs Tetsuya Naito, all I can say is WHAT IN THE BLUE FUCK WAS THAT?
It was slow, it was boring, it was one-sided as Moxley dominated most of it. The crowd was fucking dead by the end of this match and had to be resuscitated by the main event. The only positive for it is they gave Naito back the title but it seemed like Tony, or Jon or both were almost resentful of the fact 'cause they had to have the Ref seemingly help Naito by not counting a pin (it did look like he got his shoulder up for a moment). Yet he also prevented Moxley from disqualifying himself with a steel chair even though that would have lost him the title as well (this was under New Japan rules) so they weren't even being consistent on Red Shoes being biased if that's what they were going for.
EASILY the worst wrestling match I've seen since I've started watching again, I don't understand it as I've seen both men put on better matches. Whatever the case, it was shit and it dragged down the whole show considering it was the semi-main event. Moxley vs Evil at Dominion wasn't great but it was better than this.