Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Mercedes Mone Explains Draw In Signing With AEW

Thus far into her AEW run, Mercedes Mone has skilled nothing however success, capturing the TBS Championship from Willow Nightingale at AEW Double or Nothing, and the New Japan Robust Girls’s Championship from Stephanie Vaquer at Forbidden Door. The in-ring accolades aren’t all Mone has completed although, as the previous WWE star is believed to have obtained one among, if not the, highest paid contracts for a girls’s wrestler in historical past.

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Whereas the cash and push actually have been perks that helped safe Mone’s companies for AEW, it is not the one purpose she was drawn to the promotion. Talking with “Scorching 97,” Mone provided extra perception concerning why she selected AEW over going again to WWE.

“It was actually the ladies,” Mone stated. “I used to be going backwards and forwards watching the ladies on each reveals. I’ve wrestled virtually everybody that I might in WWE, and these girls right here in AEW excited me. I bought just a little style with Willow final yr, and he or she simply blossomed into this famous person over evening. I had on the spot chemistry together with her, and I am like ‘I can return and wrestle right here. That is a straightforward storyline. And she or he’s so wonderful.’ 

“And I used to be simply watching the ladies like ‘These women are giving me desires.’ And I really like dreaming about wrestling. I really like seeing the visions of what strikes do I need to do with the women, or how do I need to promote one thing? And I have not had, like, visions of wrestling desires in so lengthy. So for my desires to come back again and to have the visions and the desires of the AEW women, that is after I knew ‘Yup. The alignment’s right here. That is the place I’ve to be. That is the place I need to be.'”

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