“Timeless” Toni Storm was written off television in dramatic fashion last week on “AEW Dynamite,” when it was revealed she had been taken out and left bloodied in her dressing room backstage. A bouquet of flowers was laid beside her, and there were plenty of other clues in the room alluding to other women on the roster, seemingly placed to set up a “Whodunnit?” angle.

Fans wondered if Storm had suffered an injury during her match with Marina Shafir the Sunday prior at Revolution, where the “Timeless” one also went face-to-face with former WWE and UFC star Ronda Rousey. Dave Meltzer revealed on Monday’s edition of “Wrestling Observer Radio,” however, that Storm does not appear to be hurt.

“It appears that she’s not going to be wrestling for a long, long time, and this was something that they found out on Wednesday,” Meltzer explained. “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.”

Fightful Select confirmed on Friday that Storm is set to miss the entirety of 2026, at minimum. She was set to go one-on-one with Shafir yet again, this time in a no holds barred match, on Wednesday’s “Dynamite,” but her Timeless Love Bombs tag partner, Shirakawa, stepped in and scored the victory over “The Problem.”

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Former WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan made yet another foray into Hollywood last summer, perhaps her biggest yet, when it was revealed she would be starring in “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo,” a Takashi Miike film. Morgan won the 2026 Royal Rumble and is now headed to face champion Stephanie Vaquer for the title she once held on the “Grandest Stage of Them All,” WrestleMania 42, but she’s still looking ahead to the release of her movie, something she talked about on “Director’s Cut Radio.”

“I filmed in Japan last year. It’s going to hit theaters in September,” Morgan said. “I was very excited about the project. I learned a lot, and I feel better after the fact, having the experience. I was lucky to be in the room with all of these incredibly talented veterans of the film industry. The WWE audience is going to see me in a way that I think perhaps they never thought they’d see me, so I would tune in.”

The movie will follow the corrupt lieutenant, played by Shun Oguri, who has to locate a missing politician’s daughter, played by Morgan. Oguri’s character will be aided by “The Iron Claw’s” Lily James, who plays an FBI agent also involved in the investigation. A killer in the yakuza underworld will seemingly follow the teams’ moves as they attempt to find Morgan’s yet-to-be-named character.

Morgan returned to WWE following a shoulder injury she sustained in the ring to help on-screen boyfriend Dominik Mysterio against John Cena at Survivor Series. Morgan made her televised in-ring return in a match on “WWE Raw” in the days leading up to the event, then won the Rumble match from the #14 spot.

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Since returning to AEW in January 2026, Andrade El Idolo has been having a career revival, arguably equalling his run as NXT Champion and his days as La Sombra in CMLL. Part of Andrade’s success can be attributed to him incorporating new elements into his persona, including taking off his pants mid-match to the amusement of the crowd, and giving his phone number to female fans after taking selfies with them.

In an interview with “SHAK Wrestling,” Andrade explained that the idea of taking photos with female fans came from Andrade wanting to differentiate himself from the rest of the AEW roster, and noted that it seemed to have work given the positive reception. When it came to taking his pants off, however, Andrade admitted that wasn’t something he had in mind, and instead came from him improvising during a match when fans chanted for him to take then off.

“I asked to the ref ‘Hey, what do the people want? Why are they not quiet?'” Andrade said. “‘Because the people want you to take your pants off.’ ‘Take pants off! Take pants off!’ I said ‘Really? Okay!’ I always have trunks, wrestling trunks, under my pants, always. Always. 

“So I said ‘This is what people want? Okay, let me take my pants off!” I take my pants off and I started working with my trunks…And now in the arenas, in the buildings, I hear people say ‘Take pants off! Take pants off! Andrade, take your pants off!’ Sometimes I did, sometimes I’m like ‘No, not today.'”

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After weeks of steady increases in viewership following its debut on the AMC network, “TNA iMPACT” saw a slight decrease for the episode that aired on March 19. The show was main evented by an intense face-to-face meeting between TNA Champion Mike Santana and Steve Maclin ahead of their match at Sacrifice on Friday.

According to Wrestlenomics, with data from Programming Insider, the March 19 episode of “iMPACT” averaged a total of 250,000 viewers, down three percent from the previous week’s 590,000 viewers. The show earned a 0.04 in the ever-important ages 18-49 demographic, which stayed consistent from the week prior.

Viewership for “iMPACT” was up three percent compared to the trailing four weeks average of 244,000 viewers. The trailing four weeks average rating stayed the same at 0.04.

Before the recently reinstated Maclin attempted to play mind games against a sober Santana in a bar during the main event meeting, Nic and Ryan Nemeth defeated The Righteous in tag team action. Elayna Black scored a victory over Jada Stone, and Moose made quick work of Brian Myers with a single spear. TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater cut a promo on his Sacrifice opponent, Eric Young, and TNA Knockouts Champion Arianna Grace won a tag team match alongside Dani Luna against Lei Ying Lee and Xia Brookside.

On top of its Thursday episode of “iMPACT,” TNA will also present Sacrifice on TNA+ on Friday, March 27. In addition to the TNA Championship and X-Division title matches, Grace will also defend her Knockouts gold against Luna and Lee. Four other matches have been announced for the show, including a no-disqualification match between Mara Sade and Black.