Will Ospreay and Mercedes Moné win the Owen Hart Cups at Forbidden Door
AEW returned to San Jose's SAP Center for Forbidden Door 2026 and drew roughly 9,000 fans — a sharp jump from the 3,500 who turned up for the company's last visit to the building in October 2024. Every champion on the card kept their title, which means the show's real weight sits in the matches it booked rather than the ones it settled.
The night's biggest prizes weren't belts but Owen Hart Cups, each carrying an AEW title shot at Wembley Stadium. Will Ospreay claimed the men's tournament by surviving a 35-minute main event with Swerve Strickland, finally putting him away with the Tiger Driver 91 as the Death Riders rallied behind him at ringside.
Mercedes Moné took the women's bracket for the second year running, submitting underdog Maya World with the Statement Maker. Both finalists reached the final as late replacements — Moné for the injured Willow Nightingale, World for Sareee — which only sharpened the stakes around Moné's repeat run.
This year's Forbidden Door functioned largely as a pipeline to Wembley, locking in two challengers for AEW's biggest stage.
The 12-man "Death's Door" cage match produced the show's other major booking. With MJF lining up his Dynamite Diamond Ring, he ordered Andrade to hold Mark Briscoe in place — but Andrade shoved Briscoe clear, turned on MJF, and revealed an anti-MJF shirt to complete a babyface turn the company had teased for weeks.
Briscoe finished Jake Doyle with the Jay Driller to win it, and the payoff is immediate: he challenges MJF for the AEW World Championship this Wednesday on Dynamite in San Diego, a match Briscoe locked in himself backstage.
Scheduling that title match just days later keeps the Andrade fallout hot while fast-tracking Briscoe's long-awaited shot.
Kenny Omega also beat Zack Sabre Jr. in a 26-minute dream match, while the Young Bucks won a three-way to push back into the tag-title co
