AEW: Tony Khan on His Praise of “Timeless” Toni Storm & Being “Totally Different Than Any Wrestler I’ve Worked With”, Harley Cameron on Kris Statlander Being Fantastic Friend & Taught Her A Lot, Killer Kross & Scarlett on Potentially Joining AEW

Oct 7, 2025

Tony Khan Comments on His Praise of “Timeless” Toni Storm & Her Being “Totally Different Than Any Wrestler I’ve Worked With”

A recent episode of the Dirt Sheet Radio podcast featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about working with Swerve Strickland and “Timeless” Toni Storm in AEW and his praise of Storm for her having something “totally different than any wrestler I’ve worked with.”

“Well, those are two great examples. I think Swerve Strickland was a tremendous young wrestler who I’d seen on TV. I thought he was excellent. And as I got to know him, I think he’s been a phenomenal signing for AEW. He’s a former world champion, former world tag team champion. He’s accomplished so much, and he has so much still in front of him in his career. Swerve Strickland was a great wrestler, and I was excited to bring him to AEW. Then also, you mentioned Timeless Toni Storm as somebody that signed as a free agent here. Timeless Toni Storm is just so fantastic. She is known now as Timeless Toni Storm. She arrived with a great reputation as a worldwide phenomenon, Toni Storm, this really exciting young wrestler who’d been all over the world. And she built this great reputation. But I saw something in Toni Storm that was totally different than any wrestler I’ve worked with. And she had a presence that I felt was more like Bette Davis or a character like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. But Toni’s so young and just such a young, charming, powerful young lady. For me, I thought there would be a great opportunity to tell some stories, to work with our partners at Turner Classic Movies. You were on TBS tomorrow for Title Tuesday, and we do wrestling every week on TBS and TNT. But this brought TCM into the situation. I love old movies. I asked Toni Storm a long time ago, ‘have you ever seen Sunset Boulevard or All About Eve in particular’, and she had not. She really has come so far. But this is all things that were really inside of Toni Storm, I believe, the whole time. She had this presence and she’s unlocked it and I think it’s phenomenal. I’m really proud she’s been able to find it. I’ve had the fortune to have a few good ideas over the years in wrestling. I think one of them certainly was introducing Toni Storm to classic films like when I thought about that a couple of years ago and who would have thought it would take the turn it has and Timeless Toni Storm is one of the greatest wrestlers ever in AEW. Toni Storm is a great free agent signing, and then Timeless Toni Storm took it to a whole nother’ level as one of our best stars ever.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Harley Cameron Comments on Kris Statlander Being a Fantastic Friend & Taught Her A Lot

News4JAX held a recent interview with Harley Cameron. One of the topics discussed included Cameron’s thoughts about her alliance with Kris Statlander in AEW and how Statlander has been a fantastic friend since day one and has taught her a lot for her wrestling career.

“Kris Statlander is fantastic. She has been a fantastic friend to me since day one. But she’s honestly one of the most incredible wrestlers in the world, I will say. She trains with me all the time. She’s taught me a lot. Being by her side has been so imperative for my career and my development. It’s very exciting to see her have the gold, and she’s doing a fantastic job. So we’re represented very well with her.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Killer Kross & Scarlett Comments on It Wouldn’t Be Fair To Tony Khan For Them To Join AEW Right Now

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux, former Karrion Kross and Scarlett in WWE, as the guests.

One of the topics discussed included Kross and Scarlett’s thoughts about them potentially joining AEW in the future.

Karrion Kross – “I don’t think we should say who we do or don’t talk to.”
Scarlett Bordeaux – “We have friends everywhere. That’s the thing. We have friends everywhere. Around 2022 right before we came back, there was a conversation about you coming in, but the story wasn’t, it didn’t really make sense.”
Kross – “I wanted to do something bigger for Tony at the time, so we just said, let’s stay in touch. And had planned to do something. There’s a thing that happens when people either exit or get released from a commercialized wrestling company where, and I’m not speaking on behalf of anybody, but I just know that sometimes people freak out because the ground falls out from underneath them, financially, they get scared. So they feel like the best thing to do, so nobody forgets about them, is to sign somewhere in sort of like a semi-panic or something, or perhaps they really just want to go there, and they just want to get it over with and knock it out. That’s also a scenario. We’ve never felt supported like this in our entire lives in the fan base. Once you’ve been seen by the WWE Universe, or you’ve been seen by any sort of massive amount of global fan base, they come to where you go, and we’re in a really fortunate position where we were able to lock in that connection they were waiting for us to make with them before all this happened. So everywhere we go, they come with us. And as much as we may miss being on the road and being there and performing in front of the WWE Universe, they show up, it’s like they’re still with us, you know. And maybe it’s not in the massive amount of droves, as you’d see in an arena, but they come out, and we appreciate that. And even our fans, before WWE had been still riding with us. We still see them all the time at these shows. So, you know, we’re just enjoying the process and taking things one day at a time. There’s no need to make a decision that’s going to be fear based. If the right one comes around, more importantly for me, I’ll speak for me personally, creatively. If I know that this is something people want to see, then I want to do it. I’ve always been sold on a creative principle versus money. If you put a pile of money in front of me and there’s no principles attached to it, I’m telling you straight up, I’m not interested. If I was lying to you about that, I would have just took what they offered to me. But if you remove principles out of the situation, I’m out. I can’t do that. I can’t. That’s not why I got into this. If I was just looking for money, then you’d get a job doing anything. There’s a lot of high paying jobs. I want to create something that people will hopefully remember forever. That’s what I’ve always aimed to do.”
Scarlett – “The thing is, we know what it feels like to be at WWE when it’s at its best, when you have that connection with the writers, with your bosses? When everything’s great and it’s the best company you’ve ever worked for? Like the highs are high there. We have some of our best memories at WWE. So we still have that hope that that feeling is still there, which is why we still talk about it that way, that place could still be what we remember and what we’ve experienced before. The thing about going somewhere else, it’s almost like jumping from one long-term relationship into another, when you’re still hoping that that connection is still there with the previous company, that they’re going to do the right thing, that they’re going to call. If we ever go to AEW, we’re going to be flying the AEW flag. That is going to be our home forever. Whatever our next company is, that’s it. Right now, we’re still talking about WWE the way we are. To go over there and be like, oh, you know, we’re just here to just go back to it. We wouldn’t want to do that to him. So if we go there, we’re like, No, we’re going to make this company the absolute best. It’s true. We’re going to be and we’ll do that wherever we go. We will fight for that company until the end.”

Kross also gave his thoughts about how joining AEW would be a major commitment for them and Scarlett responded how it wouldn’t be fair to AEW CEO Tony Khan for them to join AEW right now.

“It wouldn’t be fair to Tony for us, right now, we’re still talking about WWE the way we are, to go over there and be like, ‘Oh, you know, we’re just here, just to go back to WWE.’ We wouldn’t want to do that to him. So if we go there, we’re like, ‘No, we’re going to make this company the absolute best it’s ever going to be.’ We’ll do that wherever we go.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com