Toni Storm | |
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Birth name | Toni Rossall |
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 19 October 1995
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Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Storm[1] Toni Storm[2] |
Billed height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[3] |
Billed weight | 65 kg (143 lb)[3] |
Billed from | Gold Coast, Australia[2] Stage 7 at Warner Studios |
Trained by | Dean Allmark[4] |
Debut | October 9, 2009 |
Toni Rossall (born 19 October 1995), better known by the ring name Toni Storm, is a New Zealand-Australian professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the epithet "Timeless" Toni Storm and is a record-tying three-time former AEW Women's World Champion. Prior to signing with AEW, Rossall worked for WWE, where she was an NXT UK Women's Champion.
Rossall first gained attention in WWE from her 2017 and 2018 performances in the Mae Young Classic tournament. She progressed to the tournament's semi-finals in 2017 and won it in 2018 at Evolution, WWE's first all-female PPV. She then performed on the NXT UK, NXT, and SmackDown brands before her release in 2021.
Beyond WWE, Rossall has held various world championships from other promotions in other countries, such as the World of Stardom Championship and SWA World Championship for a record-setting reign of 612 days,[5] both in the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, the Progress Women's Championship in the British promotion Progress Wrestling, and the wXw Women's Championship twice in the German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw).
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