AEW Forbidden Door (Aug. 24, 2025) was headlined by the Lights Out steel cage match from The O2 Arena in London, England. Jim Ross summed up, “It’s a sad ending to an amazing main event.”

Forbidden Door didn’t deliver any titanic shifts in the AEW landscape with only one championship changing hands.

So without further ado, here are the Winners and Losers from Forbidden Door 2025. Nigel McGuinness's run in AEW has been nothing short of a miracle. If your heart isn't warmed by the former ROH World Champion's reclamation of his legacy, following his initial retirement in the early 2010s, then there might be something a little wrong with you.