Andrade El Idolo Turns On MJF, Costs Team DCMJF The Steel Cage Match At Forbidden Door 2026

One of the biggest moments of AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 had nothing to do with a finishing move — it had everything to do with a betrayal. In the penultimate match of the evening, Andrade El Idolo turned on MJF, and the fallout handed Team Briscoe a steel cage victory that will be talked about long after the show wraps up.

The match pitted two massive factions against each other inside the unforgiving structure. Team DCMJF entered with MJF, Kevin Knight, Kyle Fletcher, Jake Doyle, Kazuchika Okada, and Andrade El Idolo on their side — a stacked unit on paper. Opposing them was Team Briscoe, led by Mark Briscoe and rounded out by Kyle O’Reilly, Roderick Strong, Orange Cassidy, Konosuke Takeshita, and Darby Allin. With talent of that caliber crammed into a steel cage, it was always going to be chaos.

But the defining moment came from within Team DCMJF itself. Andrade made his allegiances clear when he flipped the script on MJF, intervening in a way that directly led to Team Briscoe securing the win. The crowd reaction to a double-cross of that magnitude, in a match that big, is the kind of thing Forbidden Door was built for.

The implications for MJF and Andrade going forward are significant. A betrayal on this stage, in front of this audience, isn’t something that gets brushed aside — it’s the kind of moment that reshapes a rivalry and sets the tone for weeks of television to come. Where this feud goes next figures to be one of the more compelling threads AEW has to pull on heading out of Forbidden Door 2026.