It isn’t on a regular basis {that a} skilled wrestler is said to somebody simply as fashionable and groundbreaking as they’re. Within the case of Mercedes Mone, whose first cousin occurs to be the well-renowned, multi-Platinum rapper, and WWE Corridor of Famer Snoop Dogg, her ambitions to hit his ranges of accomplishment are simply getting began. On the floor, they seem like they have been shut for many of their lives, however Mone’s relationship with Snoop started in a while in her life.
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“I did not know him till I used to be most likely like 10 years outdated and my dad was like, ‘Your cousin is a very well-known rapper now,’ and I am like, ‘Oh, cool,'” Mone advised “WTOP Information”. “After I was 16, he took me to WrestleMania 24, and that is after we actually began to change into shut. Our bond is the love of wrestling; he grew up such a wrestling fan and I grew up watching wrestling, so after we went to WrestleMania collectively … I advised him sooner or later I needed to be a wrestler.”
From the second Mone advised Snoop Dogg about her want to change into a wrestler, he was in her nook. From making and including bars to her former theme track in WWE to strolling her right down to her match at WrestleMania 32, the rapper adopted up on that promise to assist her.
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Regardless of what she acknowledges as “viewers fatigue” in her TBS Championship protection towards Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D., Mone remains to be on cloud 9 from that match at All In final Sunday. Mone additionally efficiently defended the NJPW Sturdy Girls’s Championship towards Momo Watanabe at NJPW’s Capital Collision.
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