Toni Storm calls out Megan Bayne for a match at AEW Dynasty. The Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame reveals its class of 2025. Bryn Thorne chats with WrestleZone, and more.
Toni Storm Calls Out Megan Bayne
This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite featured a main event match between Kris Statlander and Megan Bayne, which proved to be a fierce battle of strength. Ultimately, Bayne emerged victorious, courtesy of two Bow Downs (F5s).
Moments before the finish, Bayne also launched Statlander into AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm, who had watched the action closely from the commentary desk. Naturally, this led Storm to physically confront Bayne, resulting in their separation by the hands of security. Afterward, Storm challenged Bayne, whom she considers a “big b*tch,” to a match at AEW Dynasty.
The AEW Women's World Champion has thrown out the challenge to Megan Bayne for #AEWDynasty!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) March 20, 2025
Watch #AEWDynamite LIVE on TBS & Max@MeganBayne | #TimelessToniStorm pic.twitter.com/iroA81OSfT
Elsewhere on Dynamite, Mercedes Moné successfully defended her TBS Championship against the up-and-coming Billie Starkz. In a follow-up interview, Moné noted that while she admired Starkz’s heart, it would take more than that to defeat “The CEO.”
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2025 Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame Class Revealed
In 2022, Jazz, Madusa (Alundra Blayze), Luna Vachon, and several others were inducted into the inaugural Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame class. This year, the establishment will welcome in even more women’s wrestling figures, on both professional and amateur levels, as a part of the 2025 class
Per the WWHOF website, this year’s professional wrestling inductees include former WWE Women’s Champion Wendi Richter, former TNA Knockouts Champion Angelina Love, former ROH Women’s Champion Mercedes Martinez, former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions the Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki), and former WWE Women’s Champion Debra Marshall. UK legend Saraya Knight and original GLOW girl Jeanne Basone will also be honored. Former WWE Women’s Champion Chyna will receive her induction posthumously.
Other notable inductees are as follows:
- Desiree Petersen
- NWA legend Ramona Isabella
- Misty Blue Simmes
- The Wingo Sisters (Betty “Babs” Wingo, Ethel Wingo Johnson, & Marva Wingo Scott)
- Dawn Marie (Non-Wrestling)
- Dark Journey (Non-Wrestling)
- Kristina Laum (Non-Wrestling)
- Risako Kinjo (Amateur)
- Agnieszka Wieszczek (Amateur)
- Kaori Icho (Amateur)
- Darling Dagmar (Posthumous)
- Sandy Parker (Posthumous)
- La Dama Enmascarada (Posthumous)
- Kathleen Wimbley (Posthumous)
All of the Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame inductions will officially air on ECUSA TV on October 25.
Trish Stratus Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of WWE Debut
This week, the wrestling world celebrated the 25-year anniversary of Trish Stratus (real name Patricia Stratigeas).
On the March 19, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat, Stratus marked her WWE debut as a talent scout. The following night on WWE Raw, she officially joined Test and Albert as their manager. In the years following, Stratus cemented her own legacy in the ring, with seven world championships to her name, and later, a WWE Hall of Fame induction.
25 years ago, @trishstratuscom debuted on Sunday Night Heat! Since then, Trish went from manager to 7-time Women's Champion to @WWE Hall Of Famer, & one of the biggest names in WWE history! And she still occasionally delivers some Stratusfaction. Thank you, Trish! #WWE pic.twitter.com/CMEXUe96M5
— USA Network (@USANetwork) March 19, 2025
Stratus most recently wrestled at the 2025 Elimination Chamber event in a tag match alongside WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton. Stratton picked up the victory for herself and Stratus, courtesy of the Prettiest Moonsault Ever on Nia Jax. Afterward, Stratus praised her newfound tag team partner.
“If you look at Tiffany Stratton, the trajectory is just upwards,” Trish Stratus said in WWE Elimination Chamber digital exclusive. “The momentum is upwards. I did not want to be blip in her trajectory, so it was really important for me to go out there and deliver 100%, and I think we did alright.”
“Stay tuned for more Stratusfaction,” she added.
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INTERVIEWS
“The Belle of the Brawl” Bryn Thorne spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her love for country and rock music, driving motorcycles in the Arizona desert, her plans for WrestleMania 41 weekend in Las Vegas, that time she shoved former UFC fighter, Ashlee Evans-Smith at a wrestling show, her full-circle reunion with Saraya (fka Paige), her ideal partners in a barroom brawl, being a “muscle mommy,” and more.
WOW’s Superheroes Ashley Blaze (Camron Branae) chatted with In Kat We Trust about her decision to join WOW, the importance of mental health, the WOW locker room, Black Girl Magic, her athletic background, and more.
“The Hellbent Vixen” Viva Van appeared on AEW Unrestricted to discuss wrestling the creative way she funded her wrestling training, how she made her way to AEW, the importance of representation in wrestling, her special relationship with Vietnam Pro Wrestling, the cancelled fourth season of Netflix’s GLOW, how she landed the role, and more.
WWE NXT star Jaida Parker talks with No-Contest Wrestling about her journey that took her from Florida to becoming a soccer star at LSU, the hardest hits she’s taken in her career, what her favorite matches have been so far, her signature move, the Hipnotic, her ideal “bar fight crew,” the moment wrestling broke her heart as a fan, and more.
“The Stunner” Emily Jaye sat down with MuscleManMalcolm about her win at PWJ Damage Goods, why she thinks she should join the WWE ID Program, wrestling for Ring of Honor, her order at Denny’s, and more.
Australian Women’s Champion Layla Divine joined A Wrestling Gal to discuss her full-circle championship win, the influences of Michelle K. Hasluck & Hayden Zenith, attending WWE Elimination Chamber in 2024, the Australian wrestling community, our mutual love of Randy Orton, the stories behind her tattoos, her passion for history, and more.
