Athena is presently on a historic run because the ROH Girls’s World Champion, having held the title for 740 days. She’s had the chance to defend the title towards AEW expertise akin to Hikaru Shida, Nyla Rose, and Willow Nightingale, nevertheless, one star she’s but to go one-on-one with is NJPW STRONG Girls’s Champion, Mercedes Mone. Athena and Mone had a number of matches in WWE, both on the identical staff or towards one another, however have not locked up since leaving the corporate.
In a current interview with Denise Salcedo, Athena commented on stepping contained in the ring with Mone and why she believes the AEW TBS Champion is her final rival.
“That is somebody I watch very, very carefully. Like each match that she has … I believe when the bar stacks up, like, that’s my final rival. That is the individual that I do not know the way that match goes to pan out once I look [at] each state of affairs in my head as a result of she’s so revolutionary, I am very revolutionary, I am very artistic,” mentioned Athena. “I do know that she loves wrestling simply as a lot as I like wrestling, like we have had conversations about watching outdated stuff, like all Japan and outdated TNA stuff and I really feel like I may need met my match so far as creativity goes within the ring.”
Athena additionally identified that Mone has by no means defeated her in tag staff motion or matches containing a number of contributors, and believes a singles bout towards her can be worthy of a foremost occasion spot on any present.
For those who use any of the quotes on this article, please credit score “Denise Salcedo” with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
