Wardlow made his triumphant return and immediately put the AEW locker room on notice with a vicious attack. Wardlow appeared after Kazuchika Okada retained his AEW Unified Championship against Swerve Strickland.

AEW “Forbidden Door” was the first AEW PPV in a while that didn’t live up to or surpass my expectations.

AEW Forbidden Door (Aug. 24, 2025) was headlined by the Lights Out steel cage match from The O2 Arena in London, England. Jim Ross summed up, “It’s a sad ending to an amazing main event.”