Tony Khan: I Saw Something In Toni Storm That Was Totally Different Than Any Wrestler I’ve Worked With

Tony Khan heaps praise on Timeless Toni Storm.

Since making her debut in All Elite Wrestling Toni Storm has became one of, if not the greatest women’s wrestler to compete in the promotion becoming a four time Women’s World Champion.

While speaking to Dirt Sheet Radio in a new interview, Tony Khan was asked about signing Swerve Strickland and Toni Storm and turning them into huge stars, with Tony having praise for both talents.

“Well, those are two great examples. I think Swerve Strickland was a tremendous young wrestler who I’d seen on TV. I thought he was excellent. And as I got to know him, I think he’s been a phenomenal signing for AEW. He’s a former world champion, former world tag team champion. He’s accomplished so much, and he has so much still in front of him in his career. Swerve Strickland was a great wrestler, and I was excited to bring him to AEW. Then also, you mentioned Timeless Toni Storm as somebody that signed as a free agent here. Timeless Toni Storm is just so fantastic. She is known now as Timeless Toni Storm. She arrived with a great reputation as a worldwide phenomenon, Toni Storm, this really exciting young wrestler who’d been all over the world. And she built this great reputation. But I saw something in Toni Storm that was totally different than any wrestler I’ve worked with. And she had a presence that I felt was more like Bette Davis or a character like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. But Toni’s so young and just such a young, charming, powerful young lady. For me, I thought there would be a great opportunity to tell some stories, to work with our partners at Turner Classic Movies. You were on TBS tomorrow for Title Tuesday, and we do wrestling every week on TBS and TNT. But this brought TCM into the situation. I love old movies. I asked Toni Storm a long time ago, ‘have you ever seen Sunset Boulevard or All About Eve in particular’, and she had not. She really has come so far. But this is all things that were really inside of Toni Storm, I believe, the whole time. She had this presence and she’s unlocked it and I think it’s phenomenal. I’m really proud she’s been able to find it. I’ve had the fortune to have a few good ideas over the years in wrestling. I think one of them certainly was introducing Toni Storm to classic films like when I thought about that a couple of years ago and who would have thought it would take the turn it has and Timeless Toni Storm is one of the greatest wrestlers ever in AEW. Toni Storm is a great free agent signing, and then Timeless Toni Storm took it to a whole nother’ level as one of our best stars ever.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Tony casted AEW wrestlers as DC superheroes. You can read more about that here.

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