10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Toni Storm
Alternative title: 'Why WWE Should Be Worried That Toni Storm Is Gone'.
Someone on WWE's creative team should release a book soon called, 'How To Ruin A Hot Young Star's Potential In 5 Months'. Slap a picture of Toni Storm with pie all over her face on the cover and voilà - an accurate retelling of the 26 year old's time on the main roster.
There's no getting away from how p*ss poor that July-December stretch was. It was so rubbish, in fact, that Toni herself decided she'd be better off the hell away from WWE's scriptwriters. Wrestlers taking their chances somewhere else is becoming an increasingly recurring theme these days, and no wonder when the booking is as rotten as it was for Storm.
Somewhere, Triple H is probs shaking with anger like he did when Randy Orton RKO'd his wife.
There's a lot that WWE would want fans to forget about Toni's time with the company, and most of it happened in such a short span that it's genuinely amazing they were able to screw things up so badly. Were the writers in a hurry, or something?
Indeed, Storm's whirlwind SmackDown run is a reminder of everything currently wrong with Vince McMahon's system.
10. They Didn’t Make Her A Star
It's not the entire story though.
Truthfully, Toni Storm was well on her way to becoming a major force without WWE. Vinnie Mac may take that as a slap across the chops, but it's fact. She was on the rise before signing with the company, and was turning heads wherever she went on the variety-rich pro wrestling map.
Ask Progress Wrestling fans what they thought of Storm's work, or maybe consider revisiting her embarrassment of riches as part of the Stardom roster. Oh yes, Toni was making waves in those promotions, and also in others like Germany's wXw too.
WWE will not want people to think about that. They'd much rather folks believed that Storm needed them to endear herself towards wrestling fans. OK, so it's also true that WWE's platform is bigger than anyone else's, but that doesn't mean Toni wouldn't have thrived without inking a deal on McMahon-printed paper.