Tony Khan Shares That It Was Mike Mansury’s Idea For ‘Death’s Door’ Steel Cage
The Death’s Door Steel Cage was Mike Mansury’s idea.
There was a 12-man tag team Steel Cage match at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. The team of Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong, Kyle O’Reilly, Konosuke Takeshita, and Darby Allin defeated AEW World Champion MJF, Kevin Knight, Kyle Fletcher, Jake Doyle, Kazuchika Okada, and Andrade El Ídolo.
The cage structure was round, and it was called ‘Death’s Door.’ During the post-Forbidden Door media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan stated that the round cage was an idea from AEW Co-Executive Producer and Senior Production Executive, Mike Mansury.
“It was a very cool idea. It was Mike Mansury (who) asked about putting a round steel cage. I thought it was a really cool concept so it came out really good and being at the Forbidden Door and being a deadly cage, we called it Death’s Door. It was a very, very cool idea and it looks great, and I would love to bring it back. So it was a very good debut for Death’s Door.”
With Mark Briscoe’s team winning, he secured a shot at MJF’s AEW World Championship and asked for his shot to be on the July 1st Dynamite.
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