10 Most Successful WWE To AEW Transitions

6. Toni Storm

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The New Zealander enjoyed a dominant 230-day reign as the NXT UK Women's Champion, won the second-ever Mae Young Classic, and popped up in the Royal Rumble and a few traditional Survivor Series elimination matches.

Outside of those occasional highlights, though, it's hard to look back on Toni's time in WWE as anything other than a bit of a missed opportunity; especially her dreadful final few pie-faced months on the main roster.

And for a time, it was feeling as though Storm may suffer a similar under-utilised fate on the AEW roster, too, with the 27-year-old still not quite clicking in the way many fans had hoped she would out of the gates.

That all changed the second she got her hands on the Interim, but later undisputed, AEW Women's World Championship, however. When finally given the time to do that wrestling stuff she's bloody best at, Toni's hard-hitting battles against the likes of Britt Baker, Athena, Serena Deeb, and Jamie Hayter helped re-establish the belt as a prize that demanded your attention.

And her newly heelish switch-up, alongside fellow Outcasts Saraya and Ruby Soho, looks like it has all the potential to establish the three former WWE Superstars as truly Elite attractions capable of taking the company's women's division to new heights.

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