AEW President Tony Khan has been very busy already in 2026 adding to his already stacked roster. The Rascalz, Andrade El Idolo, Tommaso Ciampa, and Jake Doyle are only among the names he’s signed this 12 months, however the AEW women’s division just got an entire lot greater following the Grand Slam Australia event on February 14.
Within the second contest of the night, The Babes of Wrath made one other defense of their AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships by defeating Megabad. Megan Bayne took out Willow Nightingale with a Tope Suicida, but Penelope Ford found herself caught in a Backslide courtesy of Harley Cameron who got the winning fall for her team in her home country. Nevertheless, it was Bayne and Ford who had the last laugh when Australian native Lena Kross arrived and delivered a TKO to Cameron, while Bayne once more took out Nightingale with a spear. Kross stood face-to-face with Bayne before Ford united the trio because the three women stood tall with all of the titles. After the bout, Khan took to social media to officially confirm that Kross had develop into the newest member of the AEW roster.
After she arrived at #AEWGrandSlam Australia tonight in dominant fashion, now it’s official:@lena_kross is All Elite! pic.twitter.com/GfBfxC9Enp
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) February 15, 2026
Technically, Kross showing up at Grand Slam Australia wasn’t her debut for the corporate. The 30-year old actually made her AEW debut on the July 31, 2025 episode of “AEW Collision” when she went one-on-one with former AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander, with the “Cosmic Killer” getting the win in slightly below 90 seconds. Before signing with AEW, Kross had develop into a standout on the independent scene in her native Australia, in addition to the USA and had even frolicked in Japan with the Sendai Girls promotion where she won the Sendai Girls Tag Team Championships with VENY. She has appeared in corporations like DPW, GCW, and House of Glory, the latter of which being the place where Kross first got here into contact with Bayne because the two women wrestled one another in September 2024.