AEW: Billie Starkz Suffered Potential Injury at 4/26 CMLL Event, AEW Women’s Title Eliminator Open Challenge Match Set for 4/30 AEW Dynamite Show, Tony Khan on Jon Moxley’s Spiked Bat Spot Being a Good Viral Moment for AEW

Apr 27, 2025

Billie Starkz Suffered Potential Injury at Saturday’s CMLL Event

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre announced one new change to the card of tonight’s Domingo Familiar event at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico.

It was announced that the previously scheduled tag team match of Billie Starkz & Lady Frost vs. India Sioux & Skadi will now be a singles match of Lady Frost vs. Skadi instead. The reason for the change was not given.

Las batallas entre CMLL y AEW tendrán un nuevo capítulo esta tarde cuando la joven Skadi se enfrente a la sensacional Lady Frost en un mano a mano de Amazonas.

📍Arena México
🕔 5:00 pm
🎟️ taquillas yhttps://t.co/EGK1ODs75i #DomingoFamiliarCMLL
📄 https://t.co/mM8IaqQr8a pic.twitter.com/pgV9Ew8fgd
— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) April 27, 2025

LuchaBlog reported that Starkz is currently believed to have suffered an injury during her Best 2-out-of-3 Falls tag team match with Frost against La Jarochita & Zeuxis at Saturday’s Sabados De Coliseo event in Mexico City.

late change to today's Arena Mexico card: Skadi/Lady Frost is now a singles. Billie Starkz appeared to be hurt at the end of her match last night. pic.twitter.com/ztOK1CJgBH
— luchablog (@luchablog) April 27, 2025

AEW Women’s Title Eliminator Open Challenge Match Announced for April 30th AEW Dynamite Show

AEW announced one new match for the card of this week’s AEW Dynamite show on Wednesday, April 30th at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.

This new match announced was an AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Open Challenge match of mystery opponent vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c).

"If there's any sloptarts willing to step up to the plate, then tape up your tits up and let's tango!"

From the @TCM Film Festival red carpet, AEW Women's World Champion 'Timeless' Toni Storm has issued a challenge for a Title Eliminator Match THIS WEDNESDAY on #AEWDynamite LIVE… pic.twitter.com/MkfRm57GLz
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 27, 2025

Current card for April 30th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Open Challenge match – mystery opponent vs. “Timeless” Toni Storm (c)
2025 Men’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament Semifinal Round match – Kyle Fletcher vs. Hangman Adam Page
All Star Eight-Man Tag Team match – Kenny Omega, Mark Briscoe, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, & Kevin Knight vs. The Elite (Kazuchika Okada & The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)) & Ricochet
AEW World Tag Team Champions The Hurt Syndicate (MVP, Shelton Benjamin, & Bobby Lashley) to speak
MJF to appear

Tony Khan Comments on Jon Moxley’s Spiked Bat Spot Being a Good Viral Moment for AEW

As noted before, the March 19th episode of AEW Dynamite in Omaha, Nebraska featured Jon Moxley defeating Cope in a Street Fight match to retain the AEW World Championship. This match was notable for a spot involving Cope suplexing Moxley onto a spiked bat and some of the spikes being stuck on Moxley’s back requiring the assistance of Wheeler Yuta and the referee to pull it out.

A recent episode of the Way of the Blade podcast featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about his reasons why the Moxley’s spiked bat spot was a positive and not a negative viral moment for AEW.

“When Mox had the spike bat in his back, that was a great wrestling moment. It was memorable, it helped drive box office for us, it was highest rated episode of the year. It went viral. It’s one of the most watched videos of the year. It’s probably the most watched video of the year in AEW. It’s a fantastic moment. It made new fans and created interest. It was on TMZ. There are people who weren’t watching AEW that saw it. It brought outside fans in and created casual interest.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com