Toni Storm retains the AEW Women’s Championship. IYO SKY vs. Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley announced for WWE WrestleMania 41. Gypsy Mac chats with us, and more!
Toni Storm Retains AEW Women’s Title
Two weeks ago, Megan Bayne pinned AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm in tag team competition. At AEW Dynasty, Storm evened the score by pinning Bayne to retain the AEW Women’s Championship. The fight to get there, though, wasn’t easy.
Amidst their title match at Dynasty, Bayne laid in her powerful offense, including a series of suplexes and powerslams. Toward the end, Bayne then looked to finish off Storm with a Fate’s Descent. Storm, however, countered with a roll-up, which managed to keep Bayne down for a three count. With this, Storm secured a win over Bayne and is now nearing 500 cumulative days as AEW Women’s Champion.
HIP ATTACK after HIP ATTACK after HIP ATTACK after HIP ATTACK!
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) April 7, 2025
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Elsewhere at Dynasty, Mercedes Mone battled Julia Hart in the opening round of the Women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament. 24 hours before, Hart handed Mone a rare loss by forcing her tag team partner Harley Cameron to tap out on AEW Collision. Mone, of course, wasn’t down long as she bounced back with a singles victory over Hart at Dynasty, courtesy of a seatbelt pin.
Looking ahead, Mone will face the winner of Athena vs. Harley Cameron in the semi-finals of the Women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament.
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Three Matches Confirmed For WWE WrestleMania 41
Initially, IYO SKY was slated to defend her WWE Women’s World Championship against only Bianca Belair, the 2025 Elimination Chamber winner, at WrestleMania 41. After several weeks of complaints and physicality, however, Rhea Ripley has managed to solidify a spot in the title match as well.
WWE Raw General Manager Adam Pearce made the announcement on this week’s episode of WWE Raw, resulting in a tense staredown between Ripley and Belair. When SKY tried to intervene, Ripley pushed her away, causing SKY to retaliate by nailing both her and Belair with a missile dropkick. Looking ahead, SKY will now put her title on the line in a triple threat involving both Belair and Ripley.
We've got ourselves a TRIPLE THREAT match for the Women's World Championship at #WrestleMania! pic.twitter.com/zsZcnflHug
— WWE (@WWE) April 8, 2025
Elsewhere, WWE confirmed a WrestleMania singles match pitting Jade Cargill against Naomi. This comes after Naomi attacked Cargill in November, rendering her unable to compete for months. At Elimination Chamber, Cargill returned and launched a counterattack. Since then, the two have traded physical and verbal jabs.
Finally, a gauntlet match on SmackDown will determine the WWE Women’s Tag Team title challengers for the reigning titleholders, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. Teams in the gauntlet include Katana Chance and Kayden Carter, Lyra Valkyria and Bayley, Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark, B-Fab and Michin, Alba Fyre and Piper Niven, and Natalya and Maxxine Dupri.
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Maggie Lee Signs With TNA
TNA Wrestling has welcomed aboard a new Knockout.
Recently, the Battleground Podcast broke the news of TNA’s latest signing, that being the DREAMWAVE Women’s Champion and former volleyball player Maggie Lee. In recent months, Lee has appeared on several episodes of TNA Xplosion, with matches against the likes of Xia Brookside, Tasha Steelz, Rosemary, and Savannah Evans. Now, she can officially call herself a TNA Knockout.
“I was super excited [to sign a contract with TNA] obviously, but also just being like only two years in, going on my third, I definitely am like having some impostor syndrome,’ Lee told the podcast. “But obviously I’m super excited. I’m super excited to learn there and everything. I think it will be very good for me.”
BREAKING: TNA Wrestling signs @justmaggielee!
— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) March 27, 2025
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Lee will celebrate the three-year anniversary of her pro wrestling debut this August. Prior to that, she trained at the Black & Brave Wrestling Academy, notably co-run by WWE’s Seth Rollins.
INTERVIEWS
FSW Women’s Champion Gypsy Mac spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her Funko pop collection, ventures out to the East Coast, bouncing back from a serious leg injury, now wrestling with a steel plate in her leg, appearing on TNA Wrestling last year, becoming the FSW Women’s Champion, partaking in the Beynefit for Bey, friendship with Chris Bey, moving to Las Vegas in 2023, WrestleMania 41 weekend plans, and more.
Former WWE Diva Kelly Kelly appeared on Fast Break to talk about winning the Divas Championship, transitioning from modeling to wrestling. her life as a mother of twins, advice for aspiring wrestlers, her top five wrestlers of all-time and more.
AEW star Harley Cameron joined Talk Is Jericho to discuss ventriloquism, learning the art, comedy, cabaret, singing, dancing, her journey into wrestling, first-ever AEW match against real-life bestie, Mariah May, learning from QT Marshall, Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears, and more.
WWE NXT Women’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer appeared on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast to discuss how wrestling took her from Chile, to Mexico, Japan, and then to WWE, competing in her first Royal Rumble, her friendship with Giulia, what it meant to her to become champion for the first time, all-time greats she would have love to fight in WrestleMania, and more.
“The Violence Artist” Charli Evans sat down with A Wrestling Gal to discuss her upcoming Last Wrestler Standing Match against Jessica Troy, their recent fallout, new alliance with North Shore Wrestling, goals for her future reign as PWA Heavyweight Champion, experience at AEW Grand Slam Australia, her upcoming UK tour, Mercedes Mone vs. Kanji at RevPro High Stakes, and more.
Former AEW Women’s Champion Saraya chatted with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard about her new book titled Hell In Boots, wanting to train with Natalya, rumors that she’s coming back to WWE, her love for the Friends television show and more.
