Toni Storm doesn’t want to say anything bad about her experience in WWE, she just wasn’t enjoying it anymore.
The latest episode of The Sessions with Renee Paquette featured Toni Storm speaking about joining All Elite Wrestling after her WWE departure in December. Storm left WWE after requesting her release and opened up to Paquette about why she felt like it just wasn’t working out anymore.
Toni agreed with Paquette and said that this job that she thought she would love didn’t turn out the way she hoped. She noted that she knows some people don’t enjoy working in WWE while some do, and she just fell into the category of the former.
“It just wasn’t for me at that point,” Storm said. “Let’s face it — they fire people left and right and center, out of the blue. I could be fired next week and then it’s, ‘what’s the point?’ It just felt very pointless, to be honest, and it’s been hard to convey it to fans, especially to people that just aren’t in this business and they’ll just never understand. It might sound ridiculous to those people,” she noted, “and I’m not mad about the booking and I certainly don’t want to bury WWE. I don’t want to say bad things about the place. I had a great time there for the most part,” she stated. “There were times I had very good memories and it made me who I am, essentially. I feel like I grew up with them and I had a very unique experience.”
Storm noted how she was in the Mae Young Classic and joined NXT UK, working her way up to the WWE main roster. She said those were all good experiences and it was crazy, feeling like she was lucky she got to work with so many great people during her run.
“I’m not mad. I’m not angry at WWE, I don’t have anything against them. I’m sure they’ve got bigger fish to fry than me. Why do they care that people let go from that place constantly? People move around constantly. It doesn’t matter if I’m there,” Storm said. “What matters is I’m not having a good time and why shouldn’t I be having a good time?”
Toni said she didn’t go in the day she quit with a plan, and it had built up into a complicated issue. She noted that she felt like “they didn’t give a sh-t, so why should I?’ and didn’t want to be sent back to catering again.
“I’m not going to succeed here. I know they see me as I’m such a kid, I’m a newbie, but I’d like to think that I’ve been around wrestling long enough to know what’s right for me and what I do and don’t like,” Storm said. “I just didn’t like it.”
Storm said that there were times she felt like she wasn’t respected and that WWE crushed her love for wrestling. She noted that she understood some people could go along with it, but there was “so much f-ckery” and she was just tired of going along with it. Storm said her moment of truth came when she realized she didn’t want to be unhappy wrestling anymore and she didn’t love the company, but she loved pro wrestling. Now, Storm says she feels like she’s where she’s supposed to be and doing what she needs to be doing.
Storm recently detailed the original plan for the infamous pie-throwing angle before she left WWE; read more about what was pitched and her mindset going into it at this link.
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