Mercedes Moné appears like she has motive why she left WWE to affix AEW.
It was on the March thirteenth version of AEW Dynamite when Mercedes Mone made her All Elite Wrestling debut on a present referred to as “Huge Enterprise” from her hometown of Boston. She is a well-recognized face to wrestling followers because of her spectacular WWE profession that lasted for over a decade when she used the title Sasha Banks.
As Sasha Banks in WWE, she received all the firm’s main singles championships, she was a Girls’s Tag Crew Champion and even walked away from the corporate in Could 2022 whereas she was one-half of the Girls’s Tag Crew Champions.
Fairly than return to WWE, Mone determined to debut in New Japan Professional Wrestling as a substitute in January 2023. Whereas working NJPW and Stardom reveals, Mone would go on to win and lose the NJPW Girls’s Title. On Could twenty first, 2023, Mercedes Mone took half in a mini event to find out the inaugural NJPW STRONG Girls’s Champion. She defeated Stephanie Vaquer within the first spherical and competed in opposition to AEW’s Willow Nightingale later that evening to find out the inaugural NJPW STRONG Girls’s Champion
Sadly, Mercedes Mone suffered a critical ankle damage throughout that match with Willow, who would go on to win the title due to Mone’s damage. The plan was for Mone to win the title in that match, but it surely didn’t occur.
It’s now one 12 months after that damage as Mone is about to compete in her first AEW match in opposition to Willow Nightingale for the TBS Title at Double or Nothing this Sunday, Could twenty sixth in Las Vegas.
Whereas chatting with The Ringer, the “CEO” Mercedes Mone issued this assertion about why she left WWE and signed with AEW this 12 months.
“I don’t like being handcuffed. The one place to develop is with change, and I wanted that change.”
Mercedes Mone Admits She Is Nervous Going Into AEW Debut Match
Going into her first official AEW match, Mercedes Mone admits there are nerves.
“I don’t need to put strain on myself, as a result of I’ve been doing this for 14 years. I’ve extra pleasure than strain, however I’m actually nervous as effectively, simply because it’s been a 12 months since I carried out, however being within the ring with somebody like Willow Nightingale, I do know it’s going to be completely all the things I’ve ever dreamed of. We’re going to go on the market and steal the present.”
In the identical interview, Mercedes Mone additionally made the daring declare that she’s the best girls’s wrestler of all time.
