Toni Storm has confirmed that she is now available to accept bookings since exiting WWE. The former NXT UK Women’s Champion posted to her social media yesterday with a simple caption. Storm left the company in December with reports stating that she asked for her release. Her last on-screen match was the Dec. 17 episode … Read more
WWE released a staggering amount of talent last year, in what is the largest spate of releases in company history. Fans were left reeling when WWE announced the release of multiple superstars such as Billie Kay, Peyton Royce, Chelsea Green, and Mickie James just after WrestleMania 37. Unfortunately, WWE continued to release wrestlers at an … Read more
The Virtuosa and now ROH Women’s World Champion Deonna Purrazzo was recently interviewed by Jose G of Sportskeeda. They spoke on topics such as the “forbidden door” and working with Mickie James. Also when Purrazzon found out that James would be in the upcoming Royal Rumble match, like many, she says she was shocked to … Read more
*Update* In addition to what has been written below, Fightful has further added the following – “Those that Fightful spoke to within WWE say that Toni Storm asked for her release from the company. This was later confirmed to me, and we reached out to people close to Toni said that things were fine when … Read more
On this past Friday’s SmackDown, Toni Storm had the biggest match of her career as she faced Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Although she came up short in obtaining the gold, Storm is no stranger when it comes to being at the top of a division. As a former NXT UK Women’s Champion … Read more
On next week’s Christmas Eve episode of SmackDown, Toni Storm will finally get her SmackDown Women’s Championship match. For a number of weeks now, the champion Charlotte Flair has been avoiding a title match with Storm. The two finally faced off in a contenders match last week but Flair caused a disqualification resulting in Storm … Read more
Xia Li finally made her SmackDown debut after weeks of vignettes depicting her as “The Protector” with her mission to thwart any vultures and wrongdoers. Li was called up to the blue brand in October when she was part of the WWE Draft. She utilized her debut to save Naomi from another numbers game against … Read more
Since before Survivor Series, Toni Storm has had her eye on Charlotte Flair and the SmackDown Women’s Championship. The former NXT UK Women’s Champion knows what it is like to hold gold and she is hungry to add another accolade to her career. The thing is, Flair hasn’t been so open to this idea and … Read more
WWE Authority Sonya Deville has confirmed on her social media that it will be Toni Storm that will take the last and final spot on Team SmackDown for Survivor Series. The teams were first confirmed on social media two weekends ago and originally Aliyah was part of the team. As excited as she was to … Read more
Aliyah had the biggest win of her career as she won her first match on this week’s SmackDown. To open up the show this week, Aliyah was part of a huge tag team match alongside Sasha Banks and Naomi. They teamed up to face Shayna Baszler, Natalya, and Shotzi. Except for Naomi, the other five … Read more
When WWE made the official announcement of the Queen’s Crown Tournament, fans were ecstatic that it was finally happening. A Women’s Division counterpart to a WWE staple King of the Ring would be real and adds more opportunities given the constant evolvement of the Women’s Evolution. Another chance for one of the female WWE Superstars … Read more
The recent booking decisions within WWE women’s division has received criticism from fans online and reportedly created “significant resentment” backstage. According to Fightful Select, there is growing frustration surrounding the handling of the division. The report goes on to state that both employees and talent are exasperated by the lack of time and attention given to … Read more
The first Queens Crown Tournament is here and we will be crowning a Queen in a few weeks. It will be a total of eight women, four from SmackDown and four from the RAW roster. The finals will take place at Crown Jewel on Oct. 21. Both first-round matches took place tonight for SmackDown. Zelina … Read more
After Night One of the WWE Draft took place on SmackDown, a few more selections have been made on Talking Smack. Now co-hosted by WWE newcomer Jackie Redmond along with Matt Camp, they unveiled some more destinations for some of the female talent. Kayla Braxton was backstage at SmackDown and after seven years and an … Read more
Toni Storm popped the champagne last night as her longtime boyfriend, Juice Robinson got to one knee and asked the big question. Storm took to Instagram to make the announcement and share pictures of the proposal. Alongside the images, the former NXT UK Women’s Champion wrote: “Pop the champagne I’m changing my last name” The … Read more
There will now be a third women’s match at Extreme Rules. Liv Morgan will be taking on Carmella in a singles bout. On tonight’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, we witnessed the match that was cut from last week’s show. In tag team action, Morgan teamed with Toni Storm to take on Carmella and Zelina … Read more
Bianca Belair earned herself a rematch for the SmackDown Women’s Championship on last week’s SmackDown after winning a Fatal 4-Way. On this week’s SmackDown, Belair tried to convince The Man to put her title on the line tonight. She wasn’t able to convince the champ who responded with a resounding “no.” Backstage, the SmackDown Women’s … Read more
Toni Storm made her highly anticipated official debut on this week’s SmackDown and she is ready to climb to the top of the blue brand. She faced Zelina Vega in her debut match.
Although Vega was motivated to pick up a win after failing to become Ms. Money in the Bank, she was no match for the debuting Storm. Storm picked up the win with her Storm One finisher which commentary announced as her evolution. From Storm Zero to Storm One.
Also on SmackDown was a rematch for the SmackDown Women’s Championship between Bianca Belair and challenger Carmella. The match took place at Rolling Loud Festival in Miami, Fla. Belair won with the K.O.D.
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It was announced on tonight’s SmackDown that Toni Storm will be making her debut on the brand next week, July 23. A video promo premiered last week teasing her debut and with it just saying “coming soon” we didn’t know at that time when she would show up. Now we do. Storm is coming from … Read more
The former NXT UK Women’s Champion and current NXT talent Toni Storm is reportedly backstage at SmackDown tonight. Much like prior weeks where Scarlett and Shotzi Blackheart were used for dark matches, Storm is there this week. These matches could have implications for call-ups in the near future. The report is was put on social … Read more
Former NXT UK Women’s Champion and current NXT Superstar Toni Storm was in charge of WWE’s Instagram live today to celebrate Pride Month. In the story, she talks to General Manager William Regal and NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez about what Pride Month means to them while also addressing what Pride Month means to her. … Read more
On this week’s NXT, the recently crowned NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions spent their time being pampered in style as they were having a spa day. While they were enjoying their time relaxing, they discussed about Indi Hartwell being over Dexter Lumis. With cucumbers on their eyes, they didn’t realize that it was Lumis for … Read more
Scheduled for tonight’s NXT will be round two between Toni Storm and Zoey Stark. Stark picked up a big win and what many would call an upset against Storm at the pre-show of the last TakeOver event, Stand & Deliver. Ever since that win for Stark, Storm has been furious that the newcomer bested her. … Read more
Raquel Gonzalez is still the NXT Women’s Champion after a hard fought match against Mercedes Martinez.
Leading up to tonight’s title match, Gonzalez and Martinez have been clashing over their differences. Martinez being a 20-year veteran while Gonzalez saying that she has accomplished more in one year than Martinez has her entire career made this match very personal. One thing the two have in common is they are both strong competitors.
As the match comes to its conclusion, Martinez gets a count of two from a Fisherman Buster. Gonzalez then bounced back with a big boot. The champ followed it up with her one-armed powerbomb to put away Martinez and retain her title. Dakota Kai was at ringside and in the corner of Gonzalez but did not interfere in the match.
Announced for next week’s show is a rematch between Zoey Stark and Toni Storm. Stark defeated Storm at the last Takeover event, Stand & Deliver. Storm has been riddled with the fact that she lost to a rookie. Since then, Stark has been a thorn in the side of Storm as she cost her a match against newcomer Zayda Ramier. Can Stark go 2-0 over Storm next week?
Franky Monet has been seen weekly approaching various superstars since her debut several weeks ago. She first introduced herself to Raquel Gonzalez but since then has made sure others have known her name as well. She will be in action for the first time in an NXT ring in two weeks. An opponent for her has not been named at the time of this writing.
The Warrior of the Sun has officially wrestled her first match in NXT.
Sarray is victorious in her first match for the brand. The highly anticipated match landed her across the ring from Zoey Stark. Stark has been impressive since joining the brand herself so this match-up already had the potential to be a good one and it did not disappoint. She puts away her first opponent with a spinning heel kick under the jaw, connecting with a forearm, and hitting a suplex to get the pin.
After the match, both Sarray and Stark showed excellent sportsmanship. Sarray helped up Stark who then raised her arm in victory. As Stark was making her way up the ramp she was attacked by Toni Storm. Stark defeated Storm on the pre-show of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver and it is clear that taking that loss isn’t sitting well with Storm. Sarray went over to help Stark and to prevent any further attack from Storm.
This was the only women’s match on the show this week but there were many women throughout the show. NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez was being interviewed and was asked about all of the eyes that have been fixated on her now that she is champion. She said to line all the challengers up and she will defeat them all until there is no one left standing.
Kai then focused on Martinez who called out Gonzalez last week. Martinez answered later on in the night and said she would go through Kai first so that there will be no one in her way to get to Gonzalez and the gold.
"If they want to step up, go ahead, light 'em up, and I'll take them down one-by-one, until there is NO ONE left standing." – @RaquelWWE
As for the former NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai, she had a sit-down interview with Beth Phoenix about her title reign and recent loss and what she sees for her future. They discussed the match from Stand & Deliver which led to Shirai saying that when the time is right she will get her rematch.
Phoenix asked her what was next in the meantime. Shirai says her body needs rest in order to face Gonzalez again. As she tries to explain possible time away from the ring, Franky Monet entered with her dog. Monet introduced herself to Shirai and says that she is such a fan of Phoenix who she has been watching since she was a kid.
Monet adds that she didn’t mean to eavesdrop but since Shirai is going to take some time off that she could fill her shoes as the top woman of the NXT women’s division. Shirai responds in Japanese and after Monet says she doesn’t understand Shirai says that she likes cats.
Lastly, we have The Way. Early in the night, Dexter Lumis took on LA Knight and Indi Hartwell appeared behind the barricade. This distracted Lumis to the point that he suffered a loss. Hartwell then tried to console him and get her kiss but The Way came and grabbed her off the apron and took her away from the situation.
Throughout the night Hartwell continued to be preoccupied with the thought of Lumis. Candice LeRae told her that she really needs to get focused and stop being distracted by boys. They need to focus on the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles. Not knowing that Hartwell had left her, LeRae was approached by the champions Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon. Once LeRae realized that Hartwell was no longer by her side, the tag champs attacked her and pulled her into the bathroom.
After being attacked, a disheveled LeRae would join her husband Johnny Gargano along with Austin Theory backstage. Theory was discussing a match that he was able to get booked in. They asked what happened to LeRae but she didn’t answer as Hartwell joined her stablemates. Hartwell says she ran into William Regal and was able to get them a tag team title match. Everyone but LeRae seemed thrilled by that announcement as she is left by herself.
What did you think of Sarray’s debut match against Stark? How about everything else that transpired for the women of the brand this week? Leave your thoughts below.
It has been a huge week for the stars of WWE. NXT had their first two-night TakeOver: Stand & Deliver on Wednesday and Thursday, and WrestleMania 37 weekend has just come to a close. WrestleMania weekend saw two former NXT stars win their first-ever main roster titles. Royal Rumble winner Bianca Belair defeated Sasha Banks … Read more
