The ThunderStorm pairing of AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa and Toni Storm may be fairly new to working together, they’ve only had one match to date, but statistically speaking they’ve had greater success than Dr. Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter as a team. It’s a one hundred percent success rate for ThunderStorm where as Team Britt, well their first win in 2022 just took place on July 22nd against the mash-up of Skye Blue and Ashley D’Amboise. One out of five matches, twenty percent, not the best stats for the Good Doctor and her partner, but pretty accurate when framed by the nature of their relationship.
20% of the time the two women actually seem to get along, the rest of the time it feels like they’re about to come apart at the seams, but despite those tensions, despite their failings as a tag team, Hayter has been there when Baker needed her during the former Women’s World Champion’s title reign.
Now Britt and Jamie have additional common ground in their mockery of ThunderStorm, as well as common ground in loses to both Thunder Rosa and Toni Storm, and that has to be what consistently eats at Baker, why Britt has to reach for ammunition to fire at the woman who beat her for the Women’s World Title. No matter how many verbal jabs Baker throws, no matter how many sandbags she has Rebel carry to the ring, the bottom line is that both Toni Storm and Thunder Rosa hold victories over Baker, and the latter took the Women’s World Title from around her waist. For the first time in ages, it wasn’t Britt atop the Women’s Division, and any momentum from her triumph in The Owen at Double or Nothing 2022 was quickly overshadowed by losses on two Dynamite‘s over three weeks.
This week’s tag team match could make a return to the winning side for Baker, two consecutive victories for her and Hayter would do wonders, and one over the Women’s World Champion would be a boon to either woman’s title aspirations. But the reverse is also true, seeing how neither Britt nor Jamie are in the rankings, a loss here would further dampen their hopes of bringing the championship back to the fold, and it would also completely nix any fuel for the verbal fire Baker throws at Rosa every chance she gets.
Will we see ThunderStorm continue their impressive pairing in their second tag team outing, or will it be Baker and Hayter who find a way to get a second straight win despite their inconsistent history as a duo?