Toni Storm Bids Farewell To AEW Rival
Toni Storm surprisingly had a heartfelt message for her greatest rival after AEW Revolution.
One of the most highly anticipated matches at the AEW Revolution PPV was the “Hollywood Ending” match between Women’s World Champion Toni Storm and the former champion Mariah May.
While there are some wrestling fans who are critical of AEW for not having enough long term stories, the Storm-May story goes back over a year when May idolized Storm as champion. That led to May turning on Storm, then May won the Women’s World Title last summer at AEW All In and Storm won the title back at Grand Slam Australia in February.
At Revolution, Storm and May had a bloody battle featuring many weapons being used throughout the match including multiple tables being broken, each woman using glass on her opponent and both of them bleeding heavily. Ultimately, Storm was able to overcome May by hitting a Storm Zero through a table for the pinfall win on the stage since it was falls count anywhere.
After the match was over, the screens in the Crypto.com Arena said “The End” on them while Storm lay on top of May as if she was hugging and consoling her since it was the end of their rivalry.
Toni Storm was shown walking backstage after the match along with her friend Luther and the AEW cameras wanted some comments from her after the match.
“I miss her already, I do. Farewell, my love.”
Tony Khan Tries To Explain Why Toni Storm-Mariah May Match Wasn’t Main Event Of AEW Revolution
Since the match was so good and the story was so long leading into the match, many fans wanted the Toni Storm-Mariah May match to main event of Revolution. Instead, Jon Moxley’s victory over Cope (and Christian Cage) was in the main event. After that match, Swerve Strickland confronted Moxley since he’s the #1 Contender for Moxley’s World Title, so Khan claimed he felt like that was the right way to end the show.
“I thought it was absolutely fantastic. Both are main event quality wrestlers. With AEW Grand Slam Australia, I thought we put together a great show with great moments and for where we were going next, I thought it made a lot of sense, and for where we had been I felt it was a fantastic main event.
Tonight, they delivered and it was absolutely fantastic, great match. I really believed in it and I really believed in the story. Absolutely, that is a match capable of main eventing, just like in Australia.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but to me, putting it back together and looking back, [AEW Revolution] is one of my all time favorite shows. Toni Storm was in no condition to come up here, she lost a lot of blood.
I thought it was a great moment to Swerve to have that moment and have the crowd come back and do the “Whose House? Swerve’s House.’ They didn’t know they would see him again. It was a big reaction and the crowd got behind Swerve at end, which is never a surprise.
Start to finish, it was a great show. That would be a great main event and I also thought, in particular, there were a lot of matches that could have been the main event, including any of the last four.
That’s why I called it a big closing four. Knowing that Swerve was waiting in the wings and he’s the number one contender, I had a feeling the crowd would get behind seeing Swerve at the end of the show.”
In the six-year history of AEW, they have yet to put a women’s match in the main event of a PPV event. Women have headlined television shows, but not a PPV event.