Recap of AEW Dynamite Summer Blockbuster, 10 June 2026

===AEW Dynamite Summer Blockbuster 10 June 2026===

Andrew J. Brady Music Center, Cincinnati, OH

RESULTS 

• Tag Team Dark Match: KIRAN GREY & STEVEN BORDEN def. KM & ROSARIO GRILLO
• AEW Continental Championship: JON MOXLEY (c) def. SHANE TAYLOR via submission in 13:11
• Fifth defense of the AEW Continental title this reign by Moxley, improves to 23-4-2 in matches under Continental Rules all-time
• MARK BRISCOE def. "The Bastard" PAC via pinfall in 12:12
• IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO (with Don Callis) def. AEW World Trios Champion ORANGE CASSIDY via pinfall in 15:17
• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Quarterfinal: MAYA WORLD def. SKYE BLUE via pinfall in 11:21
• Maya World advances, will face ATHENA in semifinal
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Semifinal: SWERVE STRICKLAND (with Prince Nana) def. BRODY KING via pinfall in 15:00
• Interference against King by Prince Nana 
• Strickland advances, will face WILL OSPREAY in tournament final at Forbidden Door

DEVELOPMENTS

• Tony Schiavone is here to bring in TOMMASO CIAMPA to start the show. Ciampa wants Schiavone to tell the crowd that he's better than Jericho again. Schiavone refuses so Ciampa grips him up and backs him into the corner. Schiavone starts saying it and CHRIS JERICHO's music hits. Judas keeps playing as Jericho gets in the ring and Ciampa is pitching a fit about this.
• The entire angle is that Jericho is just saying juvenile shit to annoy Ciampa. This sucks.
• Don Callis is backstage with KEVIN KNIGHT, who wants a shot at the AEW World Championship. ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO also wants that, and he wants The Jet to get to the back of the line. He asks Don if he's with him or with Kevin and does not get an answer. Frustration is mounting.
• Shane takes Moxley's head off with a forearm after the match. CARLIE BRAVO gives Taylor his belt to whip Moxley with, which he does. DANIEL GARCIA comes out to attack Bravo, but he gets double teamed when SHAWN DEAN comes out to join Carlie. MARINA SHAFIR runs in to make the save, but TRISH ADORA hits her with a kendo stick. LEE MORIARTY joins the Infantry and they do the Death Riders ring around the rosie taunt. STP stand tall.
• Don Callis is now here to introduce KEVIN KNIGHT. Kevin says that he knows the crowd isn't mad at him, and speculates that maybe it's with Darby Allin for letting everyone down, or at Speedball for breaking up JetSpeed. Kevin calls out MJF. Instead, he's met with DARBY ALLIN's tron. Kevin's immediately into fighter stance, but Darby instead attacks him from behind with his skateboard. Darby screams "I HOPE NEW YORK WAS WORTH IT, BITCH" and goes up to hit a Coffin Drop but bails out when JAKE SOMETHING, ROCKY ROMERO, TRENT BERETTA, and LANCE ARCHER run in to make the save. Darby leaves the arena through the side door.
• Ahead of his match with PAC, we see MARK BRISCOE talking to Tony Khan. They seem to have come to some sort of agreement, presumably about receiving a shot at MJF's title.
• After beating PAC with the Jay Driller, Mark grabs a mic and calls out MJF to say that he has a direct path to a title shot. MJF's music hits and we go to break.
• MJF comes through the crowd, and in so many words, tells Mark Briscoe "no." Max says that friends are stupid and a liability and that he has the most important thing in the world: money, and money talks. Mark now gets attacked from behind by the LETHAL TWIST. Mark is able to get the upper hand on them momentarily but they start to beat him down. THE CONGLOMERATION (Roddy, Orange, Kyle, Ishii) run in to make the save. Max makes his way to ringside after they're laid out.
• Mark says he knows something Max doesn't: if Max thinks he's the highest power in AEW, he's not the boss: he's just an asshole. Mark says he talked to the real boss in Tony Khan, and they need a main event for Forbidden Door. Max needs to find some partners, because at Forbidden Door, it'll be a 6-on-6 cage match, and if Mark Briscoe's side wins, he'll be guaranteed a world title match.
• ANDRADE EL ÍDOLO comes out and exchanges looks with MJF. He's got a match with Orange Cassidy up next. 
• Orange early in this match is playing mind games with Andrade and somehow convinces Andrade to take his pants off. Andrade now tells Orange to put his hands in his pockets already. Orange instead starts taking his own pants off, tearing them off to reveal a second, identical pair of pants underneath. This infuriates Andrade.
• During the break, Don attacks Orange and rakes his eyes.
• Andrade goes over and takes a picture with a woman again at ringside, as per usual. Orange hits a tope, then looks over at the corner where the woman was. LIO RUSH is now taking her phone. She backs off as Lio beckons Orange over for a picture. Orange, very reluctantly, poses for it. Andrade immediately jumps Orange afterward.
• Now Lio wants a picture with Andrade. They trade "how you know"s and "he knows" before Lio declares that it is, in fact, fine, and just takes a selfie at long-range. Orange hits a tornado DDT on Andrade.
• Following Dynamite last week, WILL OSPREAY was backstage in the stairwell. He says he can't believe he's saying it, but he owes something to the Death Riders. His fiancé, ALEX WINDSOR, on the heels of her loss to Mercedes Moné, rushes him and buries her face in his chest tearfully. Will pushes the camera away.
• JON MOXLEY is backstage with MARINA SHAFIR and DANIEL GARCIA. Mox says Shane could have walked away with his pride, but his voice is shot. Marina wants to kill Trish, and Danny proposes a 5-on-5 street fight on Collision.
• Sareee was not medically cleared, so Maya World has taken her place in this quarterfinal match. Renee Paquette tells us that it's an emotional affair for Maya, who lost her brother earlier this week and has taken this match in his honor.
• Good lord. AEW crowds are just fucking silent for women. This is depressing. You are here to watch wrestling. Here are the wrestlers. Be a part of the fucking show.
• On the other hand, Skye Blue might be one of the worst and most boring in-ring wrestlers in this company. Dear God. She goes for Code Blue and Maya counters into a flash pinfall with a bridge to steal the match and advance to face her once-mentor, Athena, in the semifinal.
• We get a pretape with ZACK SABRE JR. calling out Kenny Omega for a match before Forbidden Door. Excalibur tells us that the match has been signed. At Forbidden Door: Omega vs. ZSJ.
• The entire fucking DON CALLIS FAMILY is backstage, where they're met by MJF. MJF explains the situation with Mark Briscoe and tells Don he needs five of his top guys. Don initially balks at this, saying he's not some kind of pimp, but his tone changes quickly when Max produces a briefcase filled to the brim with cash. Andrade is visibly irritated by this, but Don is happy to accommodate.
• Andrade starts to step up to Max, but Kevin Knight cuts him off. Kevin says if he's looking for top guys, he needs to look no further than The Jet. Knight says he feels like MJF's been ducking him lately, so he'd be happy to help Max out at Forbidden Door if he gets a shot at the Men's World title afterward. Max says he'd love to say Kevin wasn't one of his top picks, but he is, and he's got that rematch coming--but if he loses this second time, there won't be another rematch. They shake on it.
• Max leaves, and Don and Kevin dap up. Everyone else goes to leave, but Andrade holds Don back. Andrade wants an answer about his own title shot, and Don gives Andrade his word that he will get his shot at the world title. Andrade still doesn't seem convinced. 
• Brody sets Swerve up on a chair at ringside and goes to hit his running crossbody. Prince Nana gets in the way and stops him; Brody throws him out of the way but it gives Swerve enough time to drop toe hold Brody into the chair.
• Swerve tries to powerbomb Brody off the second. Brody, in the process of hanging on to the ropes, pulls off the top turnbuckle pad. Brody ends up taking that buckle headfirst later on. Swerve and Nana are fucking with Aubrey as the blood starts to flow from Brody. Brody eats two House Calls and kicks out of the ensuing cover.
• Swerve goes for the Vertebreaker but Brody back drops him out of it and hits a Death Valley Driver into the corner with the exposed turnbuckle. Prince Nana gets on the apron to distract Brody so Brody just chokes him out in like 3 seconds, dumps him, hits a Cannonball on Swerve, and piledrives him for a 2.9.
• Brody looks for the Ganso Bomb; Swerve fights out and shoves Brody towards the ropes. Aubrey has to dive out of the way, which allows Nana to get a cheap headshot in from the floor. Swerve hits the Vertebreaker to take the match. 

STILL TO COME

Collision Summer Blockbuster, 13 June

• KENNY OMEGA vs. BAD DUDE TITO
• Tag Team: THE RASCALZ (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) in action 
• ROH Women's World Champion ATHENA in action
• SPEEDBALL MIKE BAILEY vs. JAKE SOMETHING  
• Tag Team: YOUNG BUCKS (Matt & Nick Jackson) vs. THE DOGS (David Finlay & Clark Connors)
• Cincinnati Street Fight: DEATH RIDERS (AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley, Marina Shafir, PAC, Daniel Garcia, Claudio Castagnoli) vs. SHANE TAYLOR PROMOTIONS (Shane Taylor, ROH Men's Pure Champion Lee Moriarty, Carlie Bravo, Capt. Shawn Dean, Trish Adora)
• TBS Championship Survival of the Fittest Qualifier: JULIA HART vs. CMLL World Women's Champion PERSEPHONE 
• TBS Championship Survival of the Fittest Qualifier: HIKARU SHIDA vs. ZAYDA STEEL 
• TNT Championship: "The Jet" KEVIN KNIGHT (c) vs. MYRON REED 

Dynamite, 17 June

• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Semifinal: MERCEDES MONÉ vs. SPARK Joshi World Champion HAZUKI

Forbidden Door, 28 June

• KENNY OMEGA vs. ZACK SABRE JR. 
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final: WILL OSPREAY vs. SWERVE STRICKLAND
• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final 
• Steel Cage, 6 vs. 6: AEW Men's World Champion MJF and teammates vs. MARK BRISCOE and teammates 

Dynamite, 1 July

• SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST for the vacant TBS Championship