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Willow Nightingale Retains AEW TBS Title in Four-Way

Published 19 February 2026

Willow Nightingale successfully defended her AEW TBS Championship on Wednesday night's episode of AEW Dynamite, pinning Mina Shirakawa in a hard-fought four-way match that also featured Marina Shafir and Megan Bayne. The event took place at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, drawing a lively crowd for the live TBS broadcast.

The match served as Nightingale's second defense of the TBS title since she captured it from Mercedes Moné on the December 31 New Year's Smash edition of Dynamite, ending Moné's nearly 600-day reign. Just days earlier, Nightingale and her tag team partner Harley Cameron, known as the Babes of Wrath, retained their AEW Women's World Tag Team Championships in two defenses during AEW's events in Australia, including a victory over Bayne and Penelope Ford at Grand Slam Australia in Brisbane on Saturday. This string of successes marked Nightingale's third title defense across both championships in five days, underscoring her demanding schedule as a dual titleholder.

The bout began with Shafir and Bayne, former tag team partners, initially uniting to isolate the champion. Nightingale quickly turned the tide, overpowering the pair and sending them...

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