Timeless Toni Storm: A character evolution
complete character evolution, and it is brilliant. But to fully understand who she is now; we must understand who she was.Toni Storm became a two-time AEW Woman’s champion as part of her stable The Outcast’s, which included her and fellow AEW stars Ruby Soho and Saraya (formerly known as Paige in WWE). These three would bond over the fact that they all felt like outsiders from the rest of the AEW cast due to their previous WWE affiliation, compared to the rest of the woman’s roster which had made names for themselves in AEW. When Storm Won the AEW Woman’s championship for the second time after defeating Jamie Hayter at Double or Nothing 2023, the group thrived at the top of the division.How ever things would not last, after losing her AEW Woman’s championship to Hikaru Shida on the August 2nd, 2023, episode of Dynamite, cracks began to form in the group. After losing the belt, Storm became distraught and internally frustrated. She began to stray from the punk aesthetic of the group. Things would develop as her and fellow Outcast Saraya both entered a fatal four-way match at AEW All In 2023 for the AEW Woman’s World Championship. Storm, desperately wanting to regain the title, believed that Saraya would help her win the match, but Saraya wanted to win the title for herself. This would cause the two Outcasts to conflict during the match.This would reach a boiling point where Storm would place Saraya onto an exposed bottom turn buckle and would try to use a hip attack. A move that would heavily damage the neck, a place Saraya has had needed major surgery in the past. Before the attack could be dealt, fellow stable mate Ruby Soho would show up in an attempt to reason with Storm, saying that she could break her neck. This would untimely end in Storm punching Ruby and knocking her to the ground. Despite Storm’s immediate regrets, this was the beginning of the end of Toni Storms time with the Outcasts. The match would end with Saraya spraying spray paint into the eyes of Toni Storm, a signature move of the outcasts, to get a pinfall victory and become the new AEW Woman’s champion.
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