AEW Collision Summer Blockbuster taped Thursday in Cincinnati and airs Saturday. Full spoilers via Fightful:
Kenny Omega defeated Bad Dude Tito in his return match ahead of Forbidden Door. Kevin Knight retained the TNT Championship over Myron Reed. Persephone defeated Julia Hart in a TBS Championship Survival of the Fittest qualifier. Hikaru Shida defeated Zayda Steel in another Survival of the Fittest qualifier. The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay) defeated The Young Bucks. The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Daniel Garcia, PAC, Claudio Castagnoli & Marina Shafir) defeated Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Carlie Bravo, Shawn Dean & Trish Adora) in the Cincinnati street fight. Athena defeated Tiara James, then attacked her after the bell before Maya World ran her off — Athena then returned to the ring and attacked Maya. The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) defeated Aaron Atlas & Austin Atlas.
Storyline developments: Starlight Kid answered Thekla’s open challenge for Forbidden Door. Thekla refused to apologize to Stardom. Kyle Fletcher said Takeshita is responsible for Mark Davis not being in the Owen Hart men’s finals. Ricochet said he is coming for Konosuke Takeshita. Kazuchika Okada and Fletcher said they need to bring the International title back to the Don Callis Family. The Opps had internal friction, with HOOK telling Anthony Bowens to stop acting like the leader. MJF and Mark Briscoe will reveal their Forbidden Door cage match teams on next week’s Dynamite. Jake Doyle defeated Speedball Mike Bailey.