Tony Khan Opens Up About Visa Issues That Altered Plans For Road To Forbidden Door; Says Gabe Kidd & Mark Davis Are Expected Back Soon

Tony Khan opens up about the visa issues and injuries that hindered Forbidden Door.

Coming up on June 28th is AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door in San Jose, California. The pre-event media call took place on 6/25, and company President Tony Khan spoke to members of the press.

He opened up about the visa issues that hindered the road to Forbidden Door. He stated that he expects Gabe Kidd and AEW National Champion Mark Davis to be back soon.

“There are a number of wrestlers that were factored in, coming from countries all over the world, that I’m looking forward to their return, that are not here and available right now. It speaks to the great depth of the AEW roster that we’ve been putting on tremendous TV every Wednesday and Saturday doing four hours of what I believe is very strong television and that we have such an exciting pay-per-view card without a lot of the great stars available. There are a number of stars in Mexico right now, some great wrestlers that I would love to have here, not have their visa in recent weeks. That would include Beast Mortos, Komander, Hechicero and going through visa renewal with a number of the wrestlers down there as well, that I have not mentioned yet, and we also have had challenges with a number of other international wrestlers. I was hoping to have Gabe Kidd here and Gabe Kidd also was another wrestler going through the renewal process. One that I expect that very soon… On the Global Wars show tonight, representing AEW, and defending the title all over the world is the National Champion Mark Davis and Mark Davis will be back very soon but he’s been away… I would expect Mark back possibly sooner than some of the other people I named. But hopefully, all those people will get everything worked out soon. In the case of Beast Mortos, it’s been innovative. I realized that if Beast Mortos could not come here, a great thing would be for Sammy Guevara to go to CMLL and defend the Tag Team Championship with The Beast Mortos… There’s also been wrestlers from STARDOM that have not been able to come in at some of the scheduled dates I would have preferred but honestly, STARDOM has been the best partner in terms of having the visas organized and getting people in or set to have Starlight Kid this weekend and seems like they have not run into a lot of issues there, and then also, a number of injuries… Also a number of injuries across a number of women and men that I would have liked to participate in the event have changed a lot of things so between the aforementioned visa issues and injuries, it’s been changes but, thankfully, it’s a really strong card and I feel really good about it.”

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