The spectrum of emotions felt throughout the rivalry between “Timeless” Toni Storm and “WWE NXT” star Blake Monroe (formerly known in AEW as Mariah May) that initially began on July 10, 2024, to their bloody “Hollywood Ending” at Revolution, this chain of unfortunate events (love, obsession, and treachery) can never be replicated on the big screens by Hollywood’s most esteemed directors or producers. Deemed in contention as one of the greatest/most illustrious rivalries AEW has ever had in its company, the new NXT Women’s North American Champion reflects on those pivotal moments that landed her in the position that she’s in today.
“I think it was just showing that women’s wrestling can be just as good as the men’s, if not better,” the former AEW Women’s World Champion replied when asked what her proudest moment in AEW was on “The Masked Man Show.” “I know that a lot of women that I meet in wrestling were always, always so hungry. We’re trying to prove more. That’s still a feeling I hold on to. I will ever lose. It’s because I truly think women’s wrestling is something special. I think some of the stories we can tell and the emotions we can show, I am really proud of a lot of the things that I’ve done. And I think if you can make people feel something in wrestling, you’ve nailed it.”
From sucking on the teats of Storm’s excellence (as the former and historic four-time Women’s World Champion once put it) to be given a once-in-a-lifetime send off, Monroe, whether she’ll ever admit it or not, will forever be a changed woman. From understudy to the top of the women’s division both formerly in AEW and now in “NXT,” without the planted seeds and the timeless rainstorms, there wouldn’t be the roots that blossomed into the evolution of May/Monroe.
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