Update on Toni Storm reportedly being out of action for a “long time” after being pulled from AEW Dynamite match

As seen during the March 18th 2026 edition of AEW Dynamite, Mina Shirakawa defeated Marina Shafir in a no-holds-barred match. Toni Storm was originally advertised as Marina’s opponent, but it was revealed that Toni had been “attacked” just before Dynamite went on the air.

In an update on Toni’s status, Fightful.com reported that “AEW expects Toni Storm not to be cleared to wrestle through 2026 at a minimum.” Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com went into more details…

“On the Toni Storm thing, it appears she’s not gonna be wrestling for a long, long time, and this was something that they found out on Wednesday. It was not an injury or anything like that. On Wednesday, she’s there. She is set up to wrestle in this match, and they had to do this emergency angle to take her out and put Mina Shirakawa in. They, on the day, on Wednesday, earliest Wednesday morning, certainly all day Tuesday, they were under the impression that she was going to be wrestling.” (quote courtesy of Cultaholic.com)