AEW’s first-ever Women’s Casino Gauntlet match only had seven entrants before Toni Storm won it with a roll-up and punched her ticket to a Women’s World title match next month at Grand Slam Australia. But one of those was a surprise who could be a big factor in the company’s women’s division for years to come.
Megan Bayne started training with Al Snow in Ohio Valley Wrestling about seven years ago. She won OVW’s Women’s title in 2019, and after the pandemic began working on the independent scene — and as an enhancement talent on AEW’s YouTube shows and Rampage. Bayne tore her ACL in 2022, and upon return headed to Japan.
Spending the second half of 2023 and the beginning of last year in Stardom, “Megasus” wrapped up with the joshi promotion in a match for their top title in Philadelphia during WrestleMania 40 weekend.
Since then she’s been back on the U.S. indies, primarily in GCW where the 5’11” Bayne often wrestled in men’s division.
Since 2023, Bayne has reportedly been under contract to AEW, with the company encouraging her to work elsewhere to get reps in anticipation of her returning to play a bigger role than she had during her first run with Tony Khan’s fed.
That campaign got off to a great start, as Bayne was booked like a hoss in tonight’s Gauntlet.
It took an alliance between two of the AEW women’s divisions most successful power wrestlers, former TBS titleholders Willow Nightingale & Kris Statlander, to take her out before the finish.
We’ll see what’s next for the 26 year old in AEW, but we wouldn’t mind to see her work more with Willow and/or Stat.
Get complete results from tonight’s Maximum Carnage edition of Dynamite here.
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