Overview
- AEW announced on May 31 that a six-woman Survival of the Fittest elimination match will decide the vacant TBS Championship on the July 1 episode of Dynamite in San Diego.
- The company said six qualifying women's matches will take place over the coming weeks and the six winners will advance to the July 1 final.
- Willow Nightingale relinquished the TBS title because of a shoulder injury and withdrew from the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, and AEW has not given a public recovery timeline.
- Survival of the Fittest is a multi-wrestler elimination format that originated in Ring of Honor and this will be AEW’s first use of the concept with the final ending when only one competitor remains.
- The vacancy has already forced booking adjustments across AEW programming and promoters may announce additional entrants or bracket changes on Collision, Dynamite and AEW social channels in the weeks ahead.