Toni Storm Says WWE ‘Didn’t Give A Sh*t’ About Her

AEW star Toni Storm was released from WWE back in December 2021, after she flew herself home from a live event and requested her release.

Toni appeared on a recent episode of The Sessions with Renee Paquette, where she discussed her final months in WWE after moving up to the main roster.

She said:

“When I went from NXT to SmackDown. My main goal in wrestling was to be on RAW or SmackDown, main roster, WWE TV. I got there and figured it out pretty soon. I realized this is just not going to work out. Also, I’m 26. I want to have a really good time at this job. I want to have a really good career and I want to enjoy part of it. I just wasn’t enjoying it for so long and I abruptly quit. I woke up that morning having no idea that I was going to quit by that night. 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.

“Let’s face it. They just fire people left, right, and center out of the blue. I could be fired next week and then it’s like, what’s the point? It just got very pointless to be honest. It’s been hard to convey that, especially to fans, especially to people that just aren’t in this business, and they’ll never understand. I must sound ridiculous to those people, but it’s the reality of what it’s actually like.

“I’m not mad about the booking. I certainly don’t want to bury it. I don’t want to say bad things about the place. I think I had a great time there for the most part. There were times I had very great memories. It made me who I am. I feel like I grew up with them. I did the first Mae Young Classic. I did the second one. Immediately following that, NXT UK. Eventually I worked my way up to going over to NXT. I got to do the Royal Rumble and Survivor Series randomly. I’m lucky that I got to experience all of this. I got to work with some amazing coaches.

“I’m not mad. I’m not angry at WWE. I don’t have anything against them. I’m sure they got bigger fish to fry than me. You know what I mean? Like, why do they care? People get let go from that place constantly. People move around constantly. It doesn’t matter if I’m there, but what matters is I’m not having a very good time, and why shouldn’t I be having a good time?”

When Storm was asked what she thought when she left the company, she responded:

“They don’t give a sh*t so why should I? This isn’t going to work. I know what’s going to happen here. 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. I thought my whole purpose in life was to go to WWE, but then over time I realized it’s just pro wrestling that I love. It’s not a company that I love. I just love pro wrestling.”

Storm is now in AEW, where she is currently 6-1 in her career. You can see all win/loss records for AEW’s women’s division in 2022 so far here.

transcription via WrestlingNews.co

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