Mercedes Mone Criticizes WWE’s Creative Process While Praising AEW
Mercedes Mone has decided to take some shots at WWE while discussing her current role in AEW.
Since Mercedes Mone is All Elite as the TBS Champion and NJPW Strong Women’s Champion, it comes as no surprise that she is really happy where she is.
After spending about a decade in WWE as Sasha Banks while winning everything there is to win there, Mone left WWE in May 2022 due to not being happy there. At the time of her WWE departure, Mone was a Women’s Tag Team Champion with Naomi, who has since returned to the company.
In Mercedes Mone’s first AEW match at May’s Double or Nothing, she defeated Willow Nightingale to become the TBS Champion.
While writing an essay of sorts for the Independent in the UK, Mercedes Mone made it clear that she’s very happy in AEW while praising other women in the company.
“The women’s division here is something special, and I love seeing it progress and grow. I remember seeing the current women’s champion, Toni Storm, back when she was in WWE. Back then she was so shy and introverted – now every week I’m glued to my set like I’m 10 again, waiting to see what Timeless Toni does next. Or Mariah May, who came into this business a superfan like me, and is taking over (a little like me, too). Or Willow Nightingale, who I beat for my TBS Championship – she’s just starting out, but she’s going to be huge.”
Mercedes Mone Criticizes WWE’s Creative Process
As she continued, Mone went on to take a shot at how WWE superstars don’t know what they might be doing on television from week to week.
“The difference between the two companies is night and day. In WWE you have no idea what you’ll be doing week to week, but here I have space to be heard.”
“Along with Tony Khan and with my friend and personal writer Jennifer Pepperman, there’s time to sit down and really plan out the kinds of stories we want to tell. I’m treated with genuine respect, and I really feel seen in a way I sometimes haven’t before. I love it so much here.”
It should be noted that when Mone was in WWE, it was still being run by former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, who was in charge of the creative process. In the summer of 2022, Paul “Triple H” Levesque took over as the booker and Chief Content Officer, which has led to a lot of people talking about how things are better in WWE now.
At AEW All In on August 25th, Mercedes Mone defends the TBS TItle against AEW original and former Women’s Champion Britt Baker in one of the highly anticipated matches at that show.