Hikaru Shida Wins 6-Woman Match for Vacant TBS Title

Q: With two paths to a SummerSlam title match, what is Seth Rollins' true endgame for the World Heavyweight Championship?

Seth Rollins’ endgame is to leave SummerSlam with the World Heavyweight Championship by any route available, while settling the deeper issue of ownership and legacy around the belt. His direct path is clear: he publicly challenged Roman Reigns for a title match at SummerSlam and framed it as one of the last major chapters in their long rivalry. Rollins’ message was not just about getting a match; it was about forcing Reigns to define his legacy against the rival who knows him best. Given both men’s age and injury history, Rollins is presenting this as a now-or-never showdown. The second path is strategic. Rollins is also alive in the King of the Ring tournament, which offers another route to a SummerSlam world title opportunity. That means even if Reigns does not immediately give him the match he wants, Rollins can still earn his way onto the card through the tournament and keep pressure on the champion. What ties both paths together is Rollins’ larger motivation. He still sees the World Heavyweight Championship as the title he helped establish and never truly lost in the ring, having vacated it because of a torn rotator cuff before WrestleMania 42. After watching Reigns and CM Punk fight over what he considers “his” championship, Rollins’ objective is to reclaim it, prove he remains elite after major injuries, and reassert that his legacy—not Reigns’—defines the title.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 6

Hikaru Shida captured the vacant TBS Championship on AEW Dynamite by winning a six-woman Survival of the Fittest match.
Willow Nightingale’s injury forced AEW to strip the title and replace her in the Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament, creating the opening for a new champion.
Persephone briefly seized momentum by eliminating two opponents, but Kris Statlander rolled her up before Persephone retaliated with the TBS belt.
Shida then locked Statlander in a submission, and the referee stopped the match after Statlander was knocked out, giving Shida her first TBS title reign.