| Toni Storm | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Storm in 2023 | |
| Birth name | Toni Rossall |
| Born | 19 October 1995 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Storm[1] "Timeless" Toni Storm Toni Storm[2] |
| Billed height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[3] |
| Billed weight | 65 kg (143 lb)[3] |
| Billed from | Gold Coast, Australia[2] Stage 7 at Warner Studios (as "Timeless" Toni Storm) |
| Trained by | Dean Allmark[4] |
Toni Rossall (born 19 October 1995), better known by the ring name Toni Storm, is a New Zealand-Australian professional wrestler. As of March 2022[update], she is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she currently performs with the epithet "Timeless" Toni Storm. She is the current AEW Women's World Champion in her record-tying third reign, and is a former member of The Outcasts. Rossall previously worked for WWE where she was a former one-time NXT UK Women's Champion.
Rossall first gained attention in WWE from her 2017 and 2018 performances in the Mae Young Classic tournament. She progressed to the tournament's semi-finals in 2017 and won it in 2018 at Evolution, WWE's first all-female PPV. She then performed on the NXT UK, NXT, and SmackDown brands before her release in 2021.
Beyond WWE, she has held various world championships from other promotions in other countries, such as the World of Stardom Championship and the SWA World Championship for a record-setting reign of 612 days,[5] both in the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, the Progress Women's Championship in the British promotion Progress Wrestling, and the wXw Women's Championship twice in the German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw).
- ^ "Toni Storm". NZ Wrestling. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Toni Storm". WWE. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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ESPNwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Barrasso, Justin (10 March 2021). "Old Rivals Toni Storm and Io Shirai Meet Again With NXT Women's Title on the Line". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
...which marked Storm's SWA world championship win, beginning a run with the title that is still the longest in Stardom history.