2026 Owen Hart Tournament Brackets Revealed for Men’s and Women’s Owen Cup Brackets

It’s Owen season! The 2026 Owen Hart Foundation Tournament brackets were revealed on Wednesday night’s AEW Dynamite for both the Men’s and Women’s fields.

The 2026 Men’s Owen Cup participants are:

• Samoa Joe 

• Will Ospreay 

• Swerve Strickland 

• Bandido

• Mark Davis 

• "Jungle" Jack Perry 

• Claudio Castagnoli 

• Brody King
  

The opening quarterfinal matches of the 2026 Men’s Owen Cup are:

• Samoa Joe vs. Will Ospreay (at AEW Double or Nothing on Sunday, May 24)

• Swerve Strickland vs. ROH World Champion Bandido (at AEW Double or Nothing)

• Mark Davis vs. “Jungle” Jack Perry

• Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brody King

The 2026 Women’s Owen Cup participants are:

• Persephone 

• Hazuki 

• Mina Shirakawa 

• Athena 

• Alex Windsor 

• Skye Blue 

• Sareee

• Wild Card

UPDATE: On AEW Dynamite on Wednesday, May 20, TBS Champion Willow Nightingale revealed she was injured and would have to both relinquish the TBS Championship and remove herself from the 2026 Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament and her opening round match against Alex Windsor.

The opening matches of the 2026 Women’s Owen Cup are:

• Persephone vs. Hazuki

• Mina Shirakawa vs. ROH Women’s World Champion Athena (at AEW Double or Nothing)

• Wild Card vs. Alex Windsor

• Skye Blue vs. Sareee