Hikaru Shida's Replacement Announced For AEW Dynamite Tag Team Match

AEW has made a change to this week's "AEW Dynamite" card. 

It was previously announced that Dr. Britt Baker and Serena Deeb will wrestle Hikaru Shida and AEW Interim Women's World Champion Toni Storm in a tag team bout, continuing the ongoing rivalry between Baker and Storm. However, Baker and Rebel carried out a locker room attack on Shida during the 9/13 episode of "AEW Dark," forcing Storm to choose a new tag team partner. 

"If I can't have my tag partner of choice [Jamie Hayter], then you can't have yours either," Baker said in a backstage interview. "So you better look around for someone else, champ."

Baker was making a reference to her recent tensions with Hayter, who has been upset with Baker ever since their Four-Way Match for the Interim AEW Women's World Championship at the All Out pay-per-view earlier this match. During the closing stages of the match, Hayter seemed to have the title won, until Baker pulled the referee out of the ring. This led to Storm nailing a DDT on Hayter for the pinfall victory.

Shortly after Baker's attack on Shida, AEW's Twitter account announced that Storm's new partner would be none other than the Fallen Goddess, Athena, who was last seen unsuccessfully challenging Jade Cargill for the TBS Championship at All Out. It remains to be seen whether Hayter will also get involved in the Baker and Deeb vs. Storm and Athena match this Wednesday.

Other matches announced for the 9/14 "AEW Dynamite" include the two semi-finals in the ongoing AEW World Championship Tournament of Champions — Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara.