Forbidden Door (2026) is drawing 65x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

The 2026 Forbidden Door was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and World Wonder Ring Stardom. It was the fifth annual Forbidden Door, and the first to be officially co-promoted by CMLL and Stardom. The event took place on June 28, 2026, at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. For the first time, Forbidden Door featured the finals of the men's and women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, becoming the third overall AEW PPV to play host to them. The event went head-to-head with The Great American Bash, a livestreaming event and television special produced by WWE for its NXT brand.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 68 edits to this article on 2026-06-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Results
• Storylines
• Production
• Background

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,846 characters that day. The largest single addition was 819 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-29 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.