{"id":104720,"date":"2021-11-19T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=104720"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:42:34","slug":"toni-storm-survivor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/11\/19\/toni-storm-survivor-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Storm Tagged in for Survivor Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead-up to the thirty-fifth installment of <strong>World Wrestling Entertainment\u2019s<\/strong> pay per view series <strong><em>Survivor Series<\/em><\/strong> has been conducted mostly online, with announcements via Twitter about who would be staffing the teams representing <strong>Friday Night SmackDown<\/strong> and <strong>Monday Night Raw<\/strong> in the \u201cbattle for brand supremacy.&#8221; The fallout on WWE television has seen <strong>Dominik Mysterio<\/strong> pulled from the Raw team and replaced by <strong>Bobby Lashley<\/strong>\u00a0and newcomer <strong>Aliyah <\/strong>also pulled from the SmackDown women\u2019s team. Her <em>Survivor Series<\/em> replacement was announced via Twitter: fellow <strong>NXT<\/strong> alumna <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Storm is coming to Survivor Series \ud83c\udf2a<\/p>\n<p>Team Raw better brace themselves for bad weather as Toni Storm will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE_Aliyah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE_Aliyah<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> Women&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SurvivorSeries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SurvivorSeries<\/a> Team \u26c8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PONK2pQQjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PONK2pQQjw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE UK (@WWEUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEUK\/status\/1461627714331422720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Toni Storm Enters the Survivor Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Storm debuted on <strong>SmackDown<\/strong> on July 23, 2021, after first being on the rosters of NXT and <em>NXT UK. <\/em>On NXT, Storm was frequently in contention for the NXT Women&#8217;s Championship, but never attained the title. She was, however, the NXT UK Women&#8217;s Champion for 231 days. During her time at NXT UK, she feuded with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/14\/rhea-ripley-reawakened-raw\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Rhea Ripley<\/strong><\/a>, losing her first bid for the NXT UK women\u2019s title to Ripley, and then defeating her to gain it. They continued to be rivals on NXT U.S., until Ripley\u2019s call-up to Raw. NXT\u2019s iteration of Storm was a snarky heel who dominated in the ring with a technically gifted and punishing moveset.<\/p>\n<p>However, upon coming to the \u201cblue brand\u201d she was rebranded as a babyface in the <strong>Liv Morgan<\/strong> mold, edgy but ebullient, and referred to as a \u201cchild of the 80s\u201d for her glam metal-inspired ring gear. She has been featured rarely and sporadically on SmackDown, despite her prodigious in-ring talent and background as a champion in NXT UK and <strong>Stardom<\/strong><em>.<\/em> Her first appearance, on July 23, was a victory over <strong>Zelina Vega<\/strong>, whom she later lost to in October 2021 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/21\/zelina-vega-queens-crown\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><em>Queen\u2019s Crown<\/em><\/strong><\/a> tournament, missing out on the honor of being WWE\u2019s first &#8220;Queen of the Ring.&#8221; On November 12\u2019s SmackDown, she challenged <strong>Charlotte Flair<\/strong> for her SmackDown women\u2019s thampionship, but was rebuffed, Flair remains laser-focused on long-time rival <strong>Becky Lynch, <\/strong>whom she will face at <em>Survivor Series<\/em> in a champion vs. champion match.<\/p>\n<p>Storm is no stranger to <em>Survivor Series<\/em>, having been a member of Ripley\u2019s NXT women\u2019s <em>Survivor Series<\/em> team at 2019\u2019s event. She was eliminated by <strong>Sasha Banks<\/strong> and <strong>Natalya<\/strong>. This time around, Storm is joined by SmackDown teammates Banks, Natalya, <strong>Shayna Baszler, <\/strong>and <strong>Shotzi Blackheart.<\/strong> Hopefully, her contributions at <em>Survivor Series 2021<\/em> on November 21 give her time on SmackDown a second wind.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead-up to the thirty-fifth installment of World Wrestling Entertainment\u2019s pay per view series Survivor Series has been conducted mostly online, with announcements via Twitter about who would be staffing the teams representing Friday Night SmackDown and Monday Night Raw in the \u201cbattle for brand supremacy.&#8221; The fallout on WWE television has seen Dominik Mysterio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3715,"featured_media":104762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,26,317,3,320],"tags":[515,163,403,217,404,159,1182,598,1747],"class_list":["post-104720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-women","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-aliyah","tag-becky-lynch","tag-charlotte-flair","tag-liv-morgan","tag-natalya","tag-sasha-banks","tag-shayna-baszler","tag-toni-storm","tag-zelina-vega"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}