Below are some top AEW news stories of the day, involving Tony Khan and Brody King.
• During the post-show media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan revealed that the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2024 PPV drew a gate (revenue from tickets) of over $1 million from 11,000 fans in attendance at the UBS Arena in the Long Island hamlet of Elmont, New York.
This was the 3rd consecutive year where Forbidden Door drew a gate of $1 million.
3 New Champions were crowned on the show. Jack Perry won the vacant TNT Title, Tetsuya Naito won the IWGP World Heavyweight Title and Mercedes Mone became a double champion by capturing the NJPW STRONG Women’s Title).
Also, Britt Baker made her long awaited return.
WATCH: Nikkita Lyons Reveals Her Buns On The Beach:
• On the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door Zero Hour, House of Black (Malakai Black & Brody King) defeated Tomohiro Ishii & Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong & NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd, and Private Party in a Fatal 4-Way tag team match.
Brody took a nasty bump during this match. You can watch it below:
https://twitter.com/aedub69/status/1807550900673913128
AEW President Tony Khan was asked about Brody’s health status during the post-show media scrum. Here’s what Khan said:
“Brody King will be okay, he’s okay. That was a scary move and he is okay. He will be able to continue wrestling and everything’s okay there. Tomohiro Ishii is a dangerous wrestler.”
