After struggling throughout her career in small-scale wrestling promotions, Toni Storm finally got the taste of a big title win, this past Sunday Night. She was crowned the Interim AEW Women’s World Champion at 2022 All Out pay-per-view event. This was her first women’s world title televised win for a bigger promotion.
Toni Storm defeated Dr. Britt Baker, Hikaru Shida, and Jamie Hayter in a Fatal-4-Way Match to pick up the women’s world title by pinning Hayter with a DDT. The original lineup planned for All Out was supposed to be much different as AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa and Toni Storm was on a collision course.
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This was supposed to be their second straight pay-per-view battle following June’s Forbidden Door PPV. However, Rosa announced an injury just a few weeks before All Out 2022. This forced the company to crown an Interim AEW Women’s World Champion in a fatal-4-way featuring Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter, Hikaru Shida, and the winner.
Sure, Toni Storm has won the title but she now has even bigger goal in mind as she looks forward to taking on Rosa who is also her occasional tag team partner. “[Interim] is not ideal,” She said during the “AEW All Out” media scrum. “Thunder Rosa says she’s injured. Okay. So when she says she’s not injured she can come back and lose to me and that’ll be the end of that.”
Toni Storm and Thunder Rosa formed a tag team in AEW
Those who have been following AEW programming would know that Toni Storm and Thunder Rosa have developed an alliance over the past couple of months, that’s been dubbed ThunderStorm. The two women have featured in tag team matches while also building an indirect feud against each other together to set up the originally planned match for All Out 2022.
The two ended up losing to Baker and Hayter on the August 3 edition of Dynamite in their final tag team outing. Now that Toni Storm is the interim AEW Women’s World Champion and Rosa is the AEW Women’s World Champion, the two will eventually feature in a title unification match, down the road,
“It’s kind of awkward,” Toni Storm shed her thoughts n the future match against Rosa. “Me and Thunder have formed, I guess, you know, kind of a friendship and we’ve formed quite a nice team but I guess I want her to know that I’m not just going to sit in her corner and cheer for her, you know, and be her little friend. You know, I came here to win championships, I didn’t come here to make friends … When she comes back, I’m going whoop her a**.”
