Harley Cameron Has Been An Unsung Hero For AEW’s Women’s Division in 2025

This was one of the few promos where Cameron actually got serious for a moment, and fans ate it up. This was the moment when the Aussie went from sidekick and comedy act to budding star. Her match at Grand Slam with Mone surprised many. While many thought it would be a squash match where Cameron would be funny, get a couple of token moves in, and then be destroyed, she held her own. The match was no five-star classic, but it put the 31-year-old on the map. Cameron has been a mainstay on AEW television ever since.

From Humble Beginnings To Emerging Talent

Born Danielle Glanville in Gold Coast, Australia, Cameron watched wrestling growing up, but focused on other things for years. She was the seventh of nine siblings and has claimed she slept in a cupboard for a while during her childhood. The jack-of-all-trades graduated with a journalism degree, worked in finance briefly, competed in bikini and bodybuilding competitions, and even worked in the vampire-themed Dracula’s Cabaret. She moved to the U.S. to pursue singing and modeling in 2018.

That would be when Cameron’s love of wrestling would be rekindled. Her boyfriend at the time, rugby player Daniel Vidot, signed a developmental deal with WWE, wrestling under the name Xyon Quinn. By 2021, Cameron was hooked. She began training at a wrestling school in Florida run by wrestlers Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears. Unwilling to give up on signing, Cameron recorded songs with fellow wrestlers Shotzi Blackheart and Scarlett Bordeaux, and the entrance theme for the TNA Wrestling tag team The IInspiration.

The IInspiration’s entrance theme and official video.

After working the indies for a while, Cameron found her way to All Elite Wrestling in 2022. She worked at AEW for more than a year in humorous non-wrestling roles before she finally got her first match in May of 2024. When you think about it, the spitfire from down under has really come a long way to get to where she is now. She didn’t win her first AEW match until February 1, 2025. Now, a little over seven months later, Cameron has become a vital mainstay of AEW’s women’s division.

End Of My Harley Cameron Rant

In a recent interview, AEW Owner/Booker Tony Khan talked about Cameron’s contributions and progress as a wrestler. Khan said he is a “big fan” and that she is a “great, great talent” who “can do almost anything.” He raved about her performance in and out of the ring. Fans seem to agree. The chants of “Feel The Wrath!” ring out every time Cameron makes an appearance. Between Cameron’s and Storm’s promos, there are spit-takes taking place out in TV land every week.

When AEW started in 2019, the women’s division had little to offer beyond Britt Baker and Hikaru Shida. There were rarely more than one or two women’s matches on any given televised show. Five years later, the talent pool of Storm, Cameron, Mone, Megan Bayne, Thekla, Julia Hart, Athena, and others has forced Khan to expand the role of the division. Cameron’s task isn’t necessarily to win matches, but to win fans. She has done that. Much like Orange Cassidy, she started out as a comedy act and has evolved into so much more. The spunky Aussie may never reach Cassidy’s level of success in the ring, but if you see her on your TV, you will be entertained.