AEW to hold Survival of the Fittest match for TBS Championship as 'Collision' ends in chaos

Will Ospreay spoke to reporters at the AEW Double or Nothing post-show scrum on May 24, 2026.

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Willow Nightingale was forced to relinquish her TBS Championship due to an injury, which also forced her out of the Owen Hart Tournament.

A new champion will be crowned in the near future as it was announced Saturday on "Collision" that a Survival of the Fittest match will take place in AEW for the first time.

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Mercedes Mone attacks Kris Statlander with the championship belt during AEW Dynamite at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 30, 2024. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

Usually reserved for Ring of Honor, Survival of the Fittest is a multi-person elimination match where the last remaining competitor will be the winner. Competitors are eliminated as they get pinned. Ring of Honor’s Supercard of Honor featured a Survival of the Fittest match for the women’s world championship. Athena held onto the title in that match.

The new champion will be crowned on the July 1 episode of "Dynamite." There will be six matches to determine the competitors who will later be in the match.

Willow Nightingale enters the ring during the women's pro-wrestling event Stardom at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, on May 18, 2024. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

The TBS Championship has been the equivalent of the TNT Championship as one of the top belts for the female competitors who are not in the main event title picture, per se.

Nightingale held the title for 140 days after she defeated Mercedes Moné for the belt at "Dynamite: New Year’s Smash." It was her second reign as champion.

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