Toni Storm Says WWE Wasn't What She Thought It Would Be
Toni Storm brought her four-year stint with WWE to an end last December when she requested and was subsequently granted, a release from her contract. Since parting ways with WWE, the 26-year-old Aussie has addressed what motivated her decision to leave, but in a recent chat with Renee Paquette on The Sessions, Storm elaborated on some of her previous statements.
“It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. A lot of people don’t enjoy it at all. For some people, it just works out and for others, it just makes them miserable, and I guess I just fell into that category. I guess it just wasn’t for me at that point,” Storm told Paquette.
Later in the conversation, Storm mentioned WWE's habit of laying talent off out of the blue and how that added to her disillusionment. The former NXT UK Women's Champion stressed that she's not angry with WWE and had no intention of burying the booking, but things with the company weren't as rosy as she had assumed they would be.RELATED: WWE’s Waste Of Toni Storm Is Proof Of A Bigger Issue in Their Women's Division
“They don’t give a s**t so why should I? This isn’t going to work. I know what’s going to happen here," she said. "I’m just going to be sent back to catering again. I’m not going to succeed here. I can just see. I know that they see me as a kid and I’m such a newbie, but I’d like to think that I’ve been around wrestling long enough to know what’s right and what’s wrong for me, and what I like and what I don’t like, and I just didn’t like it.”
Storm signed with WWE in 2018 and won the Mae Young Classic later that year at WWE's all-female Evolution pay-per-view. She previously performed on the NXT UK brand where she held the NXT UK Women's Championship. Outside WWE, she was the first-ever Progress Women's Champion among many other impressive accolades.
Toni Storm made her AEW debut on the March 30 edition of Dynamite when she was revealed as The Bunny's mystery opponent in an Owen Hart Foundation Women's Tournament Qualifier Match.
