10 Horrendous Promos Awesome Wrestlers Want You To Forget
7. Toni Storm Has A Complete Nightmare
Toni Storm is a fantastic pro wrestler who goes sadly under-appreciated by AEW fans.
Because she isn't Jamie Hayter, and held the AEW Women's title when people wanted Jamie Hayer to hold it, her run was tainted despite Toni entering physical, outstanding performances. Her stiff, believable matches, in which she can build to a dramatic near-fall trade-off as well as almost anybody, elevated the women's division to a level it has rarely reached since 2019.
Even in promos, something at which she has never excelled, Storm is more than passable in AEW. Sensibly, she isn't given a live mic to die out there; she mostly cuts promos in intimate pre-tapes that allowed her to get a simple message across in a convincing, heartfelt way.
This is just as well, since it's not advisable to repeat anything like her "shiny shiny" promo.
Talking about how she'd batted away all challengers to her NXT UK title, she said that it came with a lot of pressure. She welcomed that, which was ironic, because this is when the promo fell apart entirely. "Because I love..." she said, trailing off, before digging deep, in a panic, and remembering her '80s-tinged character.
"Because I love...the wild side..."
Which was a bit like her saying "Heart are great. 'Barracuda', eh?"
After filibustering through some word soup, she again tried to get "the shiny shiny" over as a catchphrase and dropped a Mötley Crüe reference, saying that it's staying "Home Sweet Home", before attempting some kind of laugh. Meant to convey that there's nothing anybody could do about it, her bratty laugh instead sounded like she'd just called her parent a bad word before scurrying away upstairs.