AEW Dynamite Reaction: The Last Stop to Forbidden Door '26
episodePreviously titled “BOAD: The Last Stop to AEW Forbidden Door 2026” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark Podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer. The go-home episode to Forbidden Door, and I'm going to talk about it right now. This is the Busted Open Podcast.
What insights does Tommy Dreamer share about the go-home episode to Forbidden Door?
What I personally liked about tonight's show, did it get me, it was just, it was a lot of wrestlers who were going to be on Forbidden Door versus a lot of people who don't get the opportunity to wrestle a lot. And it showed how deep that roster was and is. And then after a lot of the matches, you had some aftermath, which got you to where you want to go to watch Forbidden Door. Case in point, and I'm going to quickly run down the card here. because i'm just going to omit the main event for the beginning um we had the death riders who have a constant thread for every show uh moxley claudio and yuta bandito brody uh and mystico Area, Mystico, you heard his pop. The guy's a great wrestler. He's unbelievable in CMLL.
How does Tommy Dreamer evaluate the matches leading up to Forbidden Door?
He's unbelievable everywhere he goes, but he has a very, very strong following. Death Riders open up the show great. They have a nice little thing before with Will Ospreay. You do see these guys each and every week on AEW's television shows. And you're having your thread there, of course, always with the Death Riders and everything where they're going to go to the forbidden door. But now just like here's some other things where you're like, hmm. And when I say hmm, they're just they had some frigging great straight up pure wrestling matches. I felt like I was at a house show. And the cameras were there. And why I say that is because it was just so wrestling centric. There wasn't a lot of promos. There wasn't a lot of.
Hype and hoopla during the show. They do a good job of promoting when they have to, like for Collision, and they ran down everything, what's going to go on this weekend. But, you know, I'll go right off the bat with, just not in order, Will Ospreay and El Phantasmo. For a lot of people, they may not know who El Phantasmo is. I do. He's frigging awesome. And the announcers have to do the hardest job of introducing these people from who aren't weekly on the television show. Will Ospreay, we all know who he is. Those two guys crushed it. They had a next-level match where if El Phantasmo was a pushed player on AEW's television, that match could have been even higher. But those two guys have chemistry. Those two guys have history.
Excalibur, of course, had to put in place everything he has to do to talk about how many times these guys have faced in New Japan. I've seen them face in New Japan when New Japan was carried on AXS television and on Fight. It's... God, they had such great chemistry. And I can't describe in words, but when two guys can work like that, I don't know when the last time they actually wrestled. And it's like you have just this magic with people. Will Ospreay is a next level performer. Fantasmo, I don't think, gets enough love in the States because he's not on national television every week. But a match like that for the amount of time that the guys got was awesome to see. And it was just like a great showcase for both of them.
And at the end of the day, Will Ospreay's winning. Will Ospreay sits back, and here comes Swerve Strickland. Swerve Strickland is going out there. Will's just going to sit back in the audience. I also like that. That's why I said it had a live event feel, because we didn't go to a commercial break. We saw Will sitting there watching Swerve's entrance happen. It felt... not rushed, kind of organic, and you know the tension between the two of them because they'll face each other to see who main events Wembley Stadium. We have Swerve and Daniel Garcia. Daniel Garcia has been on television a lot. He's a known character within AEW. And him and Swerve frigging tore it up as well. And had an excellent match, an excellent showcase, where at one point people were talking with...
daniel garcia has a top top talent the guy could talk the guy could work he's been in this group and he is such a solid serviceable pro wrestler uh doesn't do his dance much anymore um he's very very he's had a lot of moments in aew and i hope that there will be more moments for him especially after the showing that he had last night
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:12
2
What insights does Tommy Dreamer share about the go-home episode to Forbidden Door?
0:12–1:19
3
How does Tommy Dreamer evaluate the matches leading up to Forbidden Door?
1:19–15:29
4
What was the significance of the match between Will Ospreay and El Phantasmo?
15:29–30:15
5
How did Swerve Strickland and Daniel Garcia perform in their match?
30:15–32:39