Ember Moon & 9 Other Women's Wrestlers AEW Needs To Sign

Since the promotion started up in 2019, All Elite Wrestling has shown a lot of improvement in its oft-criticized women’s division. There’s always more work to be done, but at this point the company’s built stars like Britt Baker, Hikaru Shida, and Jade Cargill, and put together some incredible bouts like the awesomely brutal Britt Baker vs. Thunder Rosa Lights Out match.

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AEW already has a pretty strong women’s roster, but they could always add more names. After all, the men’s division does it all the time. So of the potentially available female talent in the pro wrestling game, who does AEW need to sign?

10 Ember Moon

One of the coolest characters that WWE failed to capitalize on, Ember Moon was a former NXT Women’s Champion whose main roster career never quite took off before an achilles tendon injury took her out of the game for a year. A return to NXT followed, but then she was released from the company in 2021. Now back to her old indie moniker of Athena, the former Ember Moon would be a huge value to AEW, a seasoned worker who, like Ruby Soho before her, could show just what WWE was missing.

9 Taya Valkyrie

Another seasoned pro is Taya Valkyrie, who first appeared on many fans’ radar via her role on Lucha Underground while also wrestling for AAA in Mexico. While wrestling for Impact, Taya would end up becoming not only Knockouts World Champion, but also the longest-reigning champion to ever hold the belt. Her NXT run as Franky Monet didn’t amount to much thanks to it happening on the cusp of the 2.0 revamp, but her character work is so strong that she’d be a great addition to the AEW roster.

8 Allysin Kay

AEW fans should be somewhat familiar with Allysin Kay, as she wrestled on the pre-show for Full Gear 2020, where she challenged Serena Deeb for the NWA Women’s World Title. While it was a strong effort, Kay lost and hasn’t been seen on AEW television since.

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Given that she currently holds the revived NWA Women’s Tag Team Championship alongside Marti Bell, it seems like she’s sticking with the National Wrestling Alliance. But it’s not too hard to see AEW snapping her up as soon as she’s free.

7 Toni Storm

A former World of Stardom Champion, NXT UK Women’s Champion, and Mae Young Classic winner, Toni Storm was one of the bright spots in WWE developmental. She’d be promoted to the main roster in 2021 wrestling a handful of matches on SmackDown including a shot at Charlotte Flair’s Women’s Championship before abruptly quitting the company. Storm is such a talented in-ring worker with a strong gimmick and a known commodity among fans that she’d be a tremendous “get” for AEW as exactly the kind of star to further bolster the women’s division.

6 Trish Adora

Nicknamed “The Afro-Punk” and trained by the Dudley Boyz, Trish Adora has been tearing up the indie scene as of late, wrestling for Beyond Wrestling, Ring of Honor, and others, with many hailing her as one of the best performers on the scene today. She’s had one AEW match to date, losing to Riho on Dark: Elevation in November 2021, but it feels like only a matter of time before AEW realizes how good she is and makes Trish Adora All Elite.

5 Session Moth Martina

Not everyone AEW brings in needs to be an expert technician or anything. Sometimes, a ton of charisma is more than enough. Irish star Session Moth Martina is a solid wrestler, but her gimmick is the selling point: she’s a sleazy drunk who thinks she’s an oversexualized WWE Diva from the Attitude Era. In other words, she’s the perfect kind of character to bring to AEW television. After all, she’s already wrestled some extra appearances on Dark and Elevation. Her inclusion might incense the wrestling purists and internet curmudgeons, but those types felt the same way about Orange Cassidy, so Martina might fare perfectly fine with a higher profile under the AEW umbrella.

4 Cheerleader Melissa

Despite having wrestled on the indie scene since 1999, Cheerleader Melissa is probably one of the most underrated female wrestlers of the 21st century. She’s had runs on Impact as Alyssa Flash and Raisha Saeed and on Lucha Underground as Marty the Moth’s sister, Mariposa, but never really had much exposure to wider audiences as herself.

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As a veteran who also works as a trainer, it’s easy to see Melissa’s value in AEW, where she could work on camera as well as helping out performers behind the scenes.

3 Killer Kelly

Fans may remember Portuguese performer Killer Kelly from her brief, year-and-a-half run on NXT UK, but she spent over a decade on the European indie scene where many fans hailed her as a top competitor as she performed for Germany’s wXw, as well as the UK’s PROGRESS and Pro Wrestling: EVE. Now living in the US, most of her matches since 2020 have been in North America, including high-profile matches with Leyla Hirsh and former ROH Women’s World Champion Rok-C and a first round match in the tournament to crown new Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions.

2 Mia Yim

Given the number of released WWE stars who made their way over the AEW, Mia Yim showing up in the company feels like a no-brainer. An indie veteran who’s been wrestling since 2009 in majors like WWE and Impact as well as indies like SHIMMER and SHINE, Yim is the kind of talent who’d be a great addition to the roster thanks to her charisma and in-ring abilities. AEW could always use more seasoned veterans in its women’s division.

1 Tegan Nox

One of the bigger missed opportunities in recent WWE is that of Tegan Nox, who was suddenly released from the company in 2021 before really accomplishing anything on the main roster. Before that, she was an easy-to-root-for character in developmental, having wrestled on NXT and NXT UK, though she had a few nasty injuries that took her out for long spells. Now back to her old ring name of Nixon Newell, the former Nox seems like the perfect pure babyface character to have on any roster. Hopefully AEW realizes that before anyone else does.