‘Timeless’ Toni Storm character returns on AEW Collision
“Timeless” Toni Storm is back.
The popular Golden Age Hollywood actress character for the women’s wrestling star re-emerged from the skin of the star-struck, clueless rookie during her advertised face-to-face segment with AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May on Saturday’s Collision.
The segment was done to promote their title match at next month’s Grand Slam Australia.
Storm stood in the ring with May and continued her happy-to-be-here, aw shucks persona while “The Glamour” verbally lambasted her on the microphone.
To respond to May’s verbal lashing, Storm simply informed her that she was her biggest fan and saw everything she had ever done, finishing by resting her head on her chest.
May reverted back to fashion, patting Storm on the head in an embrace before shocking Storm and the crowd inside Daily’s Place by viciously slapping Storm repeatedly. She followed up by whipping Storm with her title belt as referees as other various AEW personnel attempted to break things up.
After it seemed May was content, she threw her hands in the air and began heading to the back.
And then it happened.
“What makes you think that I’ve forgotten?” Storm said into the microphone, still on the ground from the beating she just received from May, while her lipstick was shown smeared on her face.
“What makes you think our dance is done? Each scar, every drop of blood — I will feel forever! But now, it’s my moment in the sun,” she continued, while taking her shirt off. “They say the hardest role you will ever play is yourself,” she said while removing her shoes and pants. “But what you just witnessed is the performance of a lifetime.”
Storm added, “Mariah May, you may be the woman from hell, but you came from my womb and I will shove you back up there and spit you out. I am Timeless, Timeless, Timeless Toni Storm, and I’m gonna rip your t*ts off.”
Storm’s “Timeless” character began in August 2023 when she came up short at AEW Dynamite 200 in an attempt to dethrone then-AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida. She began transitioning to the on-screen persona of a demanding Golden Age of Hollywood actress, who is deranged and delusional.
She would continue to chase the title held by Shida, ultimately capturing it at Dynamite in October of 2023. The reign continued under her “Timeless” persona for nearly a year before she lost the title to May at All In last August.
Along with the title, Storm would shed her “Timeless” character, reverting back to her backward baseball cap-look and adopting a wide-eyed rookie persona to go with it when she made her return at December’s Winter is Coming edition of Dynamite.