What happened to Toni Storm?

About a month ago, WWE decided to breathe life into their Women’s Division on Friday night SmackDown by calling up three NXT wrestlers who were clearly ready for a brighter spotlight – Tegan Nox and Shotzi Blackheart came as a team while Toni Storm was called up as the singles wrestler. In the case of Shotzi & Nox, they made an instant impact, beating the women’s tag team champions and they’ve been a constant presence on TV ever since.

This is not the case for Storm.

Toni, despite having had weeks of teasers to promote her main roster debut, showed up, beat up Zelina Vega, who had just joined the business herself, and appeared to be doing something wrong. impose as one of the best candidates from the start. Instead, she immediately disappeared from television for the next two shows.

What makes this even weirder is the fact that Vega was on TV the following week demanding a Bianca Belair title shot and was on the verge of getting one before Sasha Banks returned and that s’ is transformed into a team match. Then, just this week, she got a “Championship Contender Match,” a new buzzword WWE is using to promote untitled matches, against Belair.

She lost all of those times, of course. But at least she got on TV and was involved. Storm, who had just beaten her, is nowhere to be found.

It doesn’t necessarily mean that something bad has happened or that she’s not yet in the plans for later, it just makes the decision to promote her appeal for weeks and give her a puzzling victory when ‘she disappeared instantly right after. If she wasn’t considered for SummerSlam, why not just wait until after to raise her?

Hopefully all is well and she’ll be back as soon as possible.