Report: People In AEW ‘Appalled’ By Booking Decision

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A number of AEW sources were reportedly ‘appalled’ regarding the booking of the in-ring return of Toni Storm.

Storm returned at the end of Dynamite on December 11 after Mariah May had retained the Women’s World Championship against Mina Shirakawa.

The returning Storm would go on to have her first match since All In London against Harley Cameron in front of the same crowd, for the pre-taped Rampage set to air on December 13.

However, that decision was apparently not a popular one backstage.

Bryan Alvarez said on Wrestling Observer Live about the backstage reaction:

“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.

“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’, and 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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Rampage only has a few episodes remaining until it is discontinued at the start of 2025.

This week’s episode of AEW Collision is also pre-taped with the taping occurring Thursday. December 12 in advance of the Saturday airing.

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