Toni Storm surprised everyone by appearing via a video clip at today’s STARDOM event in Osaka, Japan.
The former AEW Women’s World Champion announced that she would compete against Mayu Iwatani for the IWGP Women’s Championship at the upcoming STARDOM Golden Fight 2024 event in Nagoya, Japan, on Saturday, October 5th.
You can check out Storm’s video message below:
【📺9.14 大阪大会生配信中‼】
なんとトニー・ストームからビデオメッセージが届く！
「私は日本で数々のことを成し遂げてきたし、日本のプロレスにはリスペクトを持っている。私には日本でやらないといけないことがある。2017年私はワールド・オブ・スターダムチャンピオンになった。… pic.twitter.com/Guz9qXXKsz
— スターダム✪STARDOM (@wwr_stardom) September 14, 2024
In a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, AEW wrestler Willow Nightingale spoke on the lineage of the TBS Championship, including the inaugural TBS Champion, Jade Cargill, who she faced at AEW Battle of the Belts IV.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On Jade Cargill and lineage of the TBS Title: “Jade is certainly an intimidating figure. She was our first TBS champion. When I look at the lineage of that title, I really just think about strong women who have kind of found themselves through it, like that was her first big thing that she did in professional wrestling and then Kris beat her, you know have my feelings about Kris but she was a great TBS champion. She was going out there putting on matches week in week out proving how great she was. I think she was a great flag bearer for the women’s division.”
On Julia Hart as TBS Champion: “Julia Hart you look at right after that somebody who was really coming into her own who is newer to wrestling, I think only maybe two, three years in. She’s like 29. A champion of this great division, like of all the amazing, talented women we have in the locker room. She’s at the helm of it. And then we had Willow Nightingale and now Mercedes. So I think it has a very strong lineage and for her to be the first and for me to be up against her so much was a great place to be when I was just trying to get visible in AEW.”
