Early Estimate Buys For AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2 – Wrestling Observer Radio reports that the early TV numbers for AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2 are 12% higher than the previous two shows (Double or Nothing and Revolution). 

Numbers are also expected to get a boost from the buys in Japan on NJPW World, which will bring in additional 5,000 or 10,000  buys. It’s shaping up to do 150,000-155,000 buys, which makes it to be the biggest since last year’s Double or Nothing PPV.

More details will be known this Friday.

“As far as TV viewers, TV pay-per-view, which is the only number that I have right now. It was 12% higher than the previous two shows were on the same day, which is the Wednesday after the show. If it grows like the other two shows did, then it’ll be a big number. And it also, you know, is going to do you know, besides how it does in the United States, It’s also going to do much bigger in Japan than the other pay-per-views because of the new Japan guys. What is that? That’s, you know, five to eight, somewhere between five and 10,000 more buys, you know, plus the normal, whatever this number’s gonna be. Whether it’s 150, 155, maybe a little lower, I don’t know. That’s not including the Japan buys. I expect it to end up as the biggest, at least since Double or Nothing last year.

And there’s a shot if the late buys are big, that it could…that it might be able to approach that Double or Nothing from 2022, I think. If they have really big late buys, they can do it. Late buys are usually, you know, based on word of mouth of the show being great. And I think that everything that people have said, and everything that’s been talked about is that like, this was a great show with, perhaps the greatest match in AEW history, perhaps the greatest match ever in North America.

Early Estimate Buys For AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2