Mariah May says she had no idea where the story would end up.
Mariah May made her AEW debut in November 2023 and subsequently started working with Toni Storm. She and Storm had a dynamic storyline over the next few months, and May ultimately turned on Storm. She then beat Storm to win the AEW Women's World Championship at AEW All In.
Speaking on the Zaslow Show, Mariah May was asked whether she knew the storyline would blow up the way it did.
“No, I didn’t. I think there’s a bit of a misunderstanding and a bit of a misconception that I was told that this would all happen. I had no idea where the story would go, I had no idea about Wembley, the Owen, or any of that. But for me, it was very exciting. I’m big on stories. I was in Japan because I wanted to improve my in-ring, so I was literally living in Japan, fully engrossed in STARDOM, and Tony Khan got in touch and said AEW were interested. He pitched…he said I have a really exciting story, and we talked about it and kind of following Toni’s footsteps. I thought [that] was pretty symbolic because I think my career has kind of mirrored hers, in a way. We’re both from the UK, she went to STARDOM, I went to STARDOM, then coming to AEW. So for that opportunity to be laid out like that, it kind of mirrored real life. It kind of just felt perfect. To me, the most attractive part was that AEW saw me and they saw something in me and they had a plan for me, and I knew, if I’m given the chance, I will capitalize, and I think that’s exactly what I did, and it meant that we went all the way to Wembley Stadium, and I became the world champion," May said.
Check out Mariah May's comments about Toni Storm's return to AEW here.
Click here to see what May had to say about potentially facing Mercedes Mone.
May recently said that she was the workhorse of AEW's women's division. Check out her comments here.
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