#255: Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter, AEW Full Gear (11/19/2022).
This is for Toni’s AEW Interim Women’s Championship.
Jamie is riding a huge wave of momentum and fan support since her performance at All Out a few months before this, and she’s looking to use that to catapult her to the top of the women’s division. In order to become champion, she must defeat Toni, someone she’s known for seven years and has wrestled all around the world.
The bell sounds, and the look on both women’s faces tells a great story. Toni looks a bit emotional, while Jamie couldn’t give any less of a fuck. They lock up, and break off quickly. Another collar and elbow tie up, and Toni takes the side headlock. Jamie quickly takes control with one of her own. Side headlock takedown by Jamie, and she has full control on the mat. Toni tries a head scissors takeover, but Jamie is able to block it and maintain her grip.
Toni gets to her feet, and takes the side headlock again. Jamie breaks out, and eats a shoulder tackle. Toni looks for Storm Zero, and Jamie looks for the Ripcord Lariat, and both are avoided. Stalemate once again. Jamie taunts at Toni, and Toni tells her to kiss her ass. Shotgun dropkick by Toni, and then she uses her ass to tackle Jamie right to the floor. Toni with an irish whip to Jamie into the ringside barricade.
She smashes Jamie’s head off the apron, and the challenger rebounds by sending Toni right into the opposing barricade. The champion is quick to her feet, and she sends Jamie head first into the ring post. She chops Jamie against the post, until Jamie ducks and Toni chops the post itself! Jamie sends Toni into the barricade again, and both women end up back in the ring. Good snap suplex by Jamie, and Toni is able to kick out at 2.
T-Bone Suplex of sorts by Jamie, and Toni kicks out again. She gets Toni in the corner, and drives her boot into the throat. Toni tries to chop her way out, and Jamie explodes with a multitude of chops. Big shoulder tackle by Jamie, and a cocky cover only gets her a nearfall. Jamie drives Toni’s face into the mat a few times, and stomps on her head against the bottom rope. Snap mare into the chin lock by the challenger. Toni tries to get up, and Jamie pulls her back down by the hair.
She even shoves the referee away in frustration. Another hard clubbing shot to the back by Jamie, as Toni is having a tough time firing back. They exchange elbows to the chest. Toni with a Lou Thesz press, followed by some right hands. Jamie scrambles to the corner, and Toni connects with her corner hip attack flush. Toni goes to the top rope, and hits a diving crossbody for a 2 count. Toni jumps off the ropes with a DDT to Jamie, and the challenger kicks out.
Jamie with a hard elbow to the face, and Toni with some of her own. Toni with a headbutt to Jamie, and she collapses on Jamie for a pin, and Jamie kicks out. Here comes Rebel, friend of Britt Baker, who is friends with Jamie. Both women throw bombs on their knees, and Jamie connects with a high boot to the face. Toni’s nose is bleeding. Hard strike against the ropes by Toni, and one by Jamie, and one by Toni!
Jamie with a knee to the midsection, followed by rapid punches. Rebel hits Toni with the championship behind the referee’s back. Jamie connects with a Death Valley Driver on her knee, and then a sliding lariat! Jamie covers, and Toni is able to kick out somehow. Rebel is caught by the referee, and sent to the back. Jamie doesn’t seem too happy with her appearance. Jamie tries the Ripcord Lariat, and Toni counters with one of her own! She covers, and Jamie kicks out! Toni looks for the Cloverleaf, and Jamie scurries to the ropes. Toni tries her hip attack, and Jamie moves, sending Toni to the floor. With the referee distracted again, Jamie hits a Stomp to Toni into the championship belt! Jamie hits Storm Zero in the ring, but it only gets her a 2 count! The crowd is hot for Jamie, as she tries for the Lariat again, but Toni escapes and hits a German Suplex, right into Storm Zero! Toni covers, and Jamie still kicks out!
Toni smacks herself in the face, and goes for the Cloverleaf. Britt gets on the apron, and gets knocked on her ass. Jamie hits the Hayte Breaker, and Toni kicks out again! Lariat in the corner by Jamie in the corner. Britt is removing a turnbuckle pad, and then Toni irish whips Jamie into her, knocking her on the floor. Toni looks for the lariat, but Jamie slips out and sends Toni into the exposed steel! Ripcord Lariat connects flush, and Jamie takes the win! She’s the new AEW Interim Women’s Champion, and days after this, Tony Khan would name her the official Women’s Champion!
AEW’s Women’s Division will always have my love, even if it doesn’t have Tony Khan’s attention some weeks. This was an awesome fight between two hard hitters. I could’ve personally done without the interference spots myself, but at least they woke that dead ass crowd up! The physicality played well into the story coming in of these two former friends going to war. Some of the nearfalls towards the end were genuinely nail biting, then and now.
Matches like this are proof that if AEW gives their women adequate time more often, great things will happen. I don’t want to see it every once and a while on Dynamite, and I don’t want to just see it on PPV. I want to see it every damn week. If you can have as much TV time as this shitty Learning Tree gimmick has gotten, then you can give more time to the uber talented ladies of AEW.