Former WWE UK Women's Champion Toni Storm Signs With All Elite Wrestling, Makes Dynamite Debut

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It's time, it's time, it's Toni Time in All Elite Wrestling. Three months after requesting her release from World Wrestling Entertainment, Toni Storm has touched down in AEW, making her AEW Dynamite debut as The Bunny's mystery opponent in a qualifying match for The Owen Hart Foundation Women's Tournament.

The tourney itself has some shock value in its origins, having come about as a result of an agreement between AEW and the eponymous foundation founded by Hart's widow, Dr. Martha Hart, who up until September 2021 had been adamant about her husband's likeness not being profited off of by WWE in the decades following Owen's unfortunate fatal fall at the Over the Edge PPV in 1999. The men's and women's tournaments aren't just a way to celebrate his contributions to the sport of professional wrestling, but they also provide a platform for wrestlers to show what they can really do, as was the case with Storm in her AEW debut.

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She wasted no time in making an impact as The Bunny's secret opponent in the Women's Tourney qualifier. After a brief back-and-forth with the Andrade Family Office's sole female member, Storm dispatched her foe with her vaunted «Storm Zero» piledriver and cinched not only her first victory in AEW, but a spot in the upcoming tournament. It was a vindicating victory for Storm as well, coming off three months after requesting her release from WWE, having cited «burnout» and «misuse» as chief reasons for wanting to get away from the company.

A former NXT UK Women's Champion, Storm was brought up from NXT to WWE's SmackDown brand in July 2021, but quickly got left off of WWE television for several months for reasons unknown. That was until she was re-introduced in November