From the moment she returned to All Elite Wrestling as part of the GRAND SLAM: AUSTRALIA Casino Gauntlet Match, Megan Bayne has exerted quite a presence in the Women’s Division. From her engagements with Kris Statlander, Willow Nightingale, and Toni Storm in that #1 Contenders battle to her dismissive interaction with Thunder Rosa backstage a few weeks later to her dominating victories over Maya World and Hyena Hera, Megan Bayne has made a tremendous impact already. Perhaps the strongest impact has been on Kris Statlander who endured a loss to Bayne on the 2/19/25 DYNAMITE, though, as seen above, Penelope Ford had a direct hand in that coming to pass.
Thunder Rosa was there to quell the situation, and tonight she unites with Statlander in their first outing as a tag team to square-off with Ford and Bayne! Rosa and Stat are no stranger to one another. They’ve stood on the same side of the ring in All Elite Wrestling on three occasions and been victorious in each one, though it’s been over a year since their last time fighting together. That gives them a slight edge over Penelope and Megan who’ve never competed together in any form, but considering just how dominant Bayne has looked in the two months since reemerging on the AEW stage, is there much of an advantage? Perhaps it lies in the dynamic between Ford and her opponents; Statlander has two singles victories over her just in the last two months while Thunder has one of her own from the February 8th edition of COLLISION, which says nothing of their respective histories from earlier AEW days not to mention their engagements prior to the launch of All Elite Wrestling. Suffice to say there’s lots of history when it comes to Statlander, Rosa, and Ford, and most of the victories do not come from Penelope’s side of the ring.
That being said, one of the victories she does hold over Statlander came in tag team competition with “The Native Beast” Nyla Rose as her partner, so perhaps this similar kind of stylistic alliance can prove just as beneficial to Penelope Ford as it did in June 2020. Megan Bayne has seemed virtually unstoppable thus far in 2025 in singles competition. Will that dominance continue in that tag team realm as well?