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Forbidden Door 2025
TNT Championship
Hiromu Takahashi versus Kyle Fletcher (c)
Long may he reign.
Kyle Fletcher is finally TNT Champion.
I won’t lie. I have been down on the product primarily because they held this off for so long. For all the good that has been happening in All Elite Wrestling? I couldn’t get over the fact that Kyle Fletcher had been long overdue in becoming TNT Champion.
I went through all of Daniel Garcia’s recent losses this year and the fact is? He never should have made it out of Grand Slam Australia with the title. Fletcher should have faced him there and won it. Instead, they prolonged the Will Ospreay feud so the two could have a steel cage match at Revolution. Then Fletcher had to wait for Adam Cole to get a run, even though Cole was building himself up more as a trios wrestler than a singles star, and the day comes to finally get his shot to take out Adam Cole? Adam Cole ends up vacating.
Which is fine, they could still make him TNT Champion like the original plan was at All In Texas, but the company decides it would be too much of a downer for a heel win after the vacating, so they have Dustin Rhodes win the TNT Championship instead.
Kyle Fletcher doesn’t get his moment in front of a home country crowd in Australia. He doesn’t get his moment in front of 30,000 in Texas. He has to get his moment in front of barely 1,000 people in the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. A Thursday Collision. Not a Saturday Night that’s alright for fighting oh no. Thursday Collision Thursday.
But… he has it. He’s finally TNT Champion. And he’s already made a statement by beating Tomohiro Ishii in an incredible TNT Championship defence. Fletcher is going to be a fighting champion with that TNT Championship, and there’s nothing the title needed more than someone with his potential and ability working as much as possible to make the title what it always should have been: a television championship.
Even so, he can still defend on pay per view, and what a great opponent. Hiromu Takahashi has a lot of similarities to Darby Allin, but unlike Darby? Hiromu is often stuck in the Light Heavyweight Championship division in New Japan Pro Wrestling. He should be one of their top stars, but his size is something the division heavy NJPW can’t overlook it seems.
AEW is a different story. There is no weight limits in AEW and hopefully never will be. Hiromu will be able to go full Time Bomb on Kyle Fletcher and have a crazy good match. I’m looking forward to seeing how the AEW fans in London, England treat Takahashi on this. Would be nice to see him make more appearances in All Elite Wrestling in the future.
