For ten years, WWE followers knew her as Sasha Banks. Now, she is called Mercedes Mone, the TBS Champion for All Elite Wrestling. Forward of her newest title protection towards Britt Baker at AEW All In, Mone printed a letter by The Impartial UK, explaining the variations between WWE and AEW.
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“The distinction between the 2 firms is evening and day,” Mone wrote. “In WWE you don’t have any thought what you will be doing week to week, however right here I’ve house to be heard. Together with [AEW President] Tony Khan and with my buddy and private author Jennifer Pepperman, there’s time to take a seat down and actually plan out the sorts of tales we need to inform. I am handled with real respect, and I actually really feel seen in a method I typically have not earlier than. I find it irresistible a lot right here.”
Very similar to Mone, former WWE stars Adam Copeland, Saraya, and Miro have circled AEW’s collaborative nature, particularly within the artistic division, as certainly one of its interesting qualities. In line with Copeland, WWE’s extra inflexible artistic course of partly stems from there being exterior components to reply to, resembling sponsors and shareholders. As Mone additionally factors out, WWE additionally had a bent, extra so below the Vince McMahon regime, to typically swap artistic plans final minute. WWE’s artistic division has since shifted into the management of Paul “Triple H” Levesque following Mone’s departure from the corporate in 2022.
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Mone first arrived to AEW at “AEW Dynamite: Large Enterprise” on March 13. Since then, she has returned to in-ring competitors, notably defeating Willow Nightingale for the TBS Championship at AEW Double or Nothing. Mone now additionally possesses the NJPW STRRONG Girls’s Championship, courtesy of a win over Stephanie Vaquer at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.
