Fans are still questioning the booking decision to have Toni Storm make her in-ring return on tonight’s episode of AEW Rampage when she takes on Harley Cameron.
Storm, who had not been seen since dropping the Women’s Title to Mariah May at All In: London and said she was retired from wrestling, is back. Storm returned on Wednesday’s Dynamite following May retaining the Women’s Title over Mina Shirakawa. Rampage was taped right after Dynamite.
While speaking on Wrestling Obserever Live, Bryan Alvarez discussed the backstage reaction to the booking decision of Storm working Rampage in her first match back.
“Hey, you called it during the break. There are people that will argue anything. Do you know how many people I talked to in AEW yesterday, and every last single one of them, ‘aghast’ may not even be the right word, ‘appalled’ that Toni Storm’s return is on Rampage. Meanwhile leave it to the fans, leave it to the wackos, this is a great idea. He’s got to give his fans a worthwhile show those last three weeks of the cancelled show. Meanwhile, there’s actually other shows that aren’t going to be canceled. Lke God forbid, we put this return on Collision or on Dynamite or on Worlds End.
Alvarez continued, “I swear to god this is true, you could have had 200 people lined up outside Tony Khan’s door last night, one by one, all 200 of them could have gone in there and said, ‘This idea is stupid.’ Do you wanna know what’d happen at the end of the night? He’d have still done it because that’s what happens. People argue things with him every single week, and at the end of the day, he does whatever he wants.”
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