Tony Khan Warned About “F**king Over” AEW Champion At WrestleDream
One of the title matches at AEW WrestleDream has one wrestling critic wondering if Tony Khan was planning to take a title off a deserving champion.
The AEW Women’s World Championship changed hands at All Out in Toronto when Kris Statlander won a 4-way over the former champion Toni Storm, Jamie Hayter, and Thekla. Statlander won the title by pinning Storm with the Seatbelt pinning move.
It was Statlander’s first time winning the AEW Women’s World Title, despite having worked for Tony Khan’s AEW promotion for the past six years and being a top female star. Statlander has been the TBS Champion before, though.
While speaking about AEW WrestleDream on his Wrestling With Freddie podcast, lifelong wrestling fan Freddie Prinze Jr., who is a well-known actor and a former WWE writer, spoke about how AEW’s owner/booker Tony Khan shouldn’t take the title off of Statlander so soon after winning it.
“The booking would be so weird if Toni (Storm) lost in a 4-way and then just took it right back in a one on one. It doesn’t really give Toni anywhere to go and you’re kinda just f**king over (Kris) Statlander, right?
Whereas if Toni loses, it’s yo, I have to evolve. I have to make a change because I just lost straight up in a fair fight to this girl…no interference. I don’t think there’s going to be any interference. If there is interference then that is what Toni has to deal with next but I predict Statlander wins as well.
Give the girl a chance to run with it. See if anybody can pull more out of her and if she can pull more out of somebody else worthy enough to beat her. We’ll see.”
Why Tony Khan Waited To Do First-Ever Kris Statlander-Toni Storm Match
During the AEW WrestleDream media conference call, Tony Khan spoke about how he wanted to save the first-ever Kris Statlander-Toni Storm match, and apparently, the right time for it is at WrestleDream.
“We’ve got another great former World Champion, ‘Timeless’ Toni Storm, taking on the AEW World Champion Kris Statlander. That is the first time they’ve ever wrestled one-on-one, and it is by design.
That has always been a match that I knew would be a major match on a major event, and when the time was right, it would be one of the biggest matches I think we could put on and I’m really excited for it. I think they’ve been doing fantastic work in the promos.”
The lineup for AEW WrestleDream on October 18th is below.
- AEW World Championship: “Hangman” Adam Page (c) vs. Samoa Joe
- AEW Women’s World Championship: Kris Statlander (c) vs. Toni Storm
- I Quit Match: Darby Allin vs. Jon Moxley
- AEW Tag Team Championships: Brodido – Brody King & Bandido (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada & Konosuke Takeshita
- TNT Championship: Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Mark Briscoe
- $500K Match: The Young Bucks – Matt & Nick Jackson vs. Jurassic Express – “Jungle” Jack Perry & Luchasaurus
- Tornado Trios Match: The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and MVP) vs. The Demand (Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona)
- Jamie Hayter vs. Thekla
There are also four matches on the Tailgate Brawl episode of Collision before WrestleDream.
* FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (with Stokely) vs. JetSpeed (“Speedball” Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight)
* Roderick Strong and The Conglomeration (Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, and Tomohiro Ishii) vs. Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia, and Pac)
* Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale vs. Divine Vanity (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford)
* Eddie Kingston and Hook vs. TBA
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