Hours before Forbidden Door, former WWE RAW star surprisingly teases crashing the AEW event

AEW and NJPW are set to present the Forbidden Door pay-per-view in just a few hours. In addition to All Elite Wrestling and New Japan competitors, tonight's big event will feature stars from CMLL and Stardom. Now a former WWE Superstar is teasing a big angle after his recent controversy.

WWE parted ways with Dijak this past week, in a somewhat controversial fashion. The 11-year veteran is not under a 90-day non-compete clause and is able to work with any promotion. The former RETRIBUTION member made his first appearance as a free agent on Saturday at a Blitzkrieg! Pro event, and now he's teasing a potential AEW debut.

The Tall Don was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and has been billed from nearby Worcester. Tonight's Forbidden Door event is being held in Long Island, NY, which is between 4 and 4.5 hours from the aforementioned areas in Massachusetts. ROH's 2015 Top Prospect took to X (formerly Twitter) with a video this morning to tease a potential step through the forbidden door.

"What a time, what a time, to be alive. Feast Your Eyes because Donovan Dijak is back. Last night at Blitzkrieg! Pro Wrestling in Enfield, Connecticut... hang on a second, just gonna go through this door real quick. It's a beautiful, sunshiny New England day, sun is out, the kids are playing, Donovan Dijak is playing wherever he damn well pleases," Dijak said.

He continued and said he would show up wherever he wanted and spoke about the 4/4.5 hour drive hinting at an appearance on tonight's pay-per-view event.

"I'm gonna show up wherever I want, whenever I want, and you can Feast Your Eyes on that because that is exactly what the Dijak Hijack is all about. You know what? Today is such a beautiful day, it's early in the morning right now... why don't we go for a nice little drive, huh? Maybe a 4 hour drive, 4.5 hour drive. I think that's exactly what today calls for," Dijak teased in the video below.

Dijak's video was uploaded at 10 am ET, so he had plenty of time to drive to Long Island for the AEW event. WWE's handling of the Dijak situation has led to significant concern within the company.

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AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door updated lineup for tonight

AEW and NJPW are preparing to present the third annual Forbidden Door pay-per-view in a few hours. The event will air live from the UBS Arena in Long Island, NY.

There are 14 matches confirmed for Forbidden Door, with 4 of those taking place on the pre-show. There are several rumors going around for tonight, including some on Ricochet. Below is the current lineup (and these are subject to last-minute changes):

• Zero Hour Pre-show: House of Black vs. Private Party vs. Roderick Strong and Gabe Kidd vs. Kyle O'Reilly and Tomohiro Ishii
• Zero Hour Pre-show: Kris Statlander and Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale and Tam Nakano
• Zero Hour Pre-show; Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinals: Saraya vs. Mariah May
• Zero Hour Pre-show: Mistico, Rey Fenix, Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Titan, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji
• MJF vs. Hechicero
• Orange Cassidy vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• Chris Jericho, Big Bill, Bryan Keith vs. Samoa Joe, Hook, Katsuyori Shibata
• The Young Bucks and Kazuchika Okada vs. The Acclaimed and Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinals: Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi
• Women's World Champion Toni Storm defends vs. Mina Shirakawa (Mariah May will be at ringside to support both)
• Winner Takes All: TBS Champion Mercedes Moné vs. NJPW Strong Women's Champion Stephanie Vaquer
• Ladder Match for the vacant TNT Championship: Jack Perry vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Dante Martin vs. Lio Rush vs. El Phantasmo
• IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley defends vs. Tetsuya Naito
• AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland defends vs. International Champion Will Ospreay

The Zero Hour Pre-show is scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm ET, airing live on AEW's social media channels. The main show will then begin at 8 pm ET.