Tag: Mercedes Mone

Mercedes Mone and Toni Storm on AEW star’s radar of dream opponents

Posted on by Rosanne Raphael

AEW Women’s Champion Thekla named Mercedes Mone and Toni Storm as two wrestlers she would like to face in the future during a recent interview with The Sportster.

Along with mentioning former rival Mina Shirakawa as someone she admires, Thekla said Mone and Storm are two “dream opponents” she hopes to share the ring with someday.

“Mercedes [Moné] is obviously somebody who probably thinks of herself as some icon or idol here. I have a lot to say about that. Toni Storm, being the Timeless One. She’s built a platform for herself that is so far away from everything that we’re doing. It’s almost been untouchable for a long time and [she] has held [the AEW Women’s Championship] more times than I can count on this hand. She’s one of the big ones in our company, and I’d love to see who’s got it in the end,” stated Thekla. 

The champion also spoke about winning the AEW Women’s Championship less than a year into her run with the promotion.

“In German, we say, ‘Wissen ist Macht’. It means wisdom is power. If you get that inside knowledge, that’s how I [was able to win the AEW Women’s Championship] in eight months.”

Thekla also spoke about her Triangle of Madness teammates Julia Hart and Skye Blue.

“I see a lot of myself in them, and I see a lot of talent they have that I try to incorporate into what I’m doing. I also hope that I can give them a little bit of inspiration or knowledge about how to make it and navigate yourself in this business.”

Thekla arrived in AEW in May of last year after nearly four years with World Wonder Ring Stardom.

 

Mercedes Mone to make double title defense at RevPro event

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Mercedes Mone’s belt collection is dwindling down — and she’ll be putting two more championships on the line when she competes at Revolution Pro Wrestling High Stakes 2026.

RevPro has announced that Mone will defend both her Bodyslam Women’s Championship and Discovery Wrestling Women’s Championship when she takes on Alexxis Falcon at the High Stakes event. It’s being held at The Hangar in Wolverhampton on Saturday, March 21.

Bodyslam Wrestling and Discovery Wrestling are indie promotions respectively based out of Denmark and Scotland.

After taking a break from the ring at the end of last year, Mone returned this month and has already lost the CMLL Women’s World Championship and Bestya Women’s Championship. That’s on top of the AEW TBS Championship, RevPro Undisputed Women’s Championship, and ROH Women’s Television title she lost in December 2025.

It’s not yet known when Mone will be returning to AEW programming. Along with this RevPro date, she has upcoming indie title defenses in France, Poland, and Canada.

The High Stakes card also includes an Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship match with Jay Joshua defending against 1 Called Manders.

Mercedes Mone drops BestYa Wrestling Women’s title in Italy

Posted on by Ian Carey

Mercedes Mone has lost her second championship of the weekend and her third title in three straight matches.

After dropping the CMLL World Women’s Championship to Persephone at Arena Mexico on Friday night, Mone lost the BestYa Wrestling Women’s Championship to Swan at Mone Mayhem on Sunday in Bagnolo Cremasco, Italy.

Mone has now dropped five straight championship matches dating back to her loss of the RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship to Alex Windsor at the December 17 AEW Collision taping in Manchester. Following that, she and Athena lost an AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship opportunity to The Babes of Wrath at World’s End. Four days later, Mone dropped the TBS Championship to Willow Nightingale at New Year’s Smash.

Coming up next for Mone, she is scheduled to appear for Banger Zone Wrestling in France on March 14 and has a booking with RevPro on March 21. She will then return to Winnipeg Pro Wrestling on Tuesday, March 31, the night before AEW presents Dynamite in the city.

AEW wrestler loses championship at CMLL event

Posted on by Vincent Verhei

Mercedes Mone is now down to eight belts.

The now former CMLL World Women’s Champion lost the title to Persephone in Arena Mexico on Friday night. The title match went 18:40 and main evented CMLL’s La Noche de la Amazonas, an all-women’s show. 

Mone began the match by putting on a lucha mask and taunting the fans. When the action spilled outside fans (or perhaps Persephone’s family members) doused Mone with beer. Persephone would then go on to hit a springboard frog splash and pin Mone clean in the ring. The locker room emptied to celebrate with Persephone, though she wasn’t friendly with everyone.

Other AEW wrestlers had more luck than Mone on the show. Megan Bayne (subbing for the injured Penelope Ford) pinned Olympia, while Mina Shirakawa defeated Zeuxis.

Mone had won the championship from Zeuxis at Grand Slam Mexico last June. She defended the title three times, including one defense against Persephone last October. 

Persephone, who debuted in 2016, is best known for her work in CMLL. In 2024, she won the promotion’s 2024 Campeonato de Amazons, a tournament to crown CMLL’s top luchadora, defeating Zeuxis in the finals. She defeated Olympia in a top contender’s match in February. 

Persephone has also wrestled several times for ROH, and has appeared on multipromotional events such as Forbidden Door and Wrestle Dynasty.

Kris Statlander: Mercedes Mone has ‘motivated me in ways I could never explain’

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Feuding with Mercedes Mone was a very rewarding experience for Kris Statlander.

Statlander and Mone faced off twice on pay-per-view in 2024 with Mone winning both matchups. The two then renewed their rivalry at AEW Full Gear 2025 with Statlander getting the victory this time. All three bouts were highly regarded with Statlander and Mone working well together as opponents.

On Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Statlander explained that she doesn’t ever really look for chemistry with opponents. Instead, she just approaches each match trying to be as giving as possible and find ways to mesh with the person across the ring from her. But Statlander does think fans would point to Mone as the person she has the best chemistry with. Statlander loved working with Mone and was motivated by how talented and dedicated she is.

“I feel so weird about this chemistry question — I’ve actually gotten this a few times — because I don’t ever really look for chemistry with someone. I look for myself being the best performer for my opponent,” Statlander said. “And I feel like kind of putting that pressure on myself to be that person for them kind of just helps me mesh with a lot more people than as opposed to being like, ‘Well, I’m just going to do whatever I need to do and then hope that everyone is on the same page.’ And I’m not saying I’m the only one that does it, but I feel like my approach is a little bit more like, ‘Let me be there for you.’ Yeah, I try to be [very giving]. And I feel like that kind of helps [in] general.

“I know a lot of people are probably going to say Mercedes. And, you know, I love working with her. She’s motivated me in ways that I could never explain, because of just her talent and her passion for wrestling also. But I don’t know. I feel like I try my best to work well with a lot of people and to be someone that people want to work with. So that’s more rewarding to me than, you know, any title really could be. The fact that people want to work with me is very special.”

The third match in the Statlander vs. Mone trilogy happened last November during Statlander’s AEW Women’s World Championship reign. Statlander recently dropped the belt to Thekla on the February 11 episode of Dynamite.

Mone has been on hiatus from AEW since the end of 2025 but looks poised to return soon. She’s already been announced for a slate of upcoming indie dates in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Poland, and Canada.

Bayley on facing Mercedes Mone again: ‘All I can do is hold on to hope’

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Bayley is still hoping that she’ll be able to share the ring with Mercedes Mone again — but she’s less confident about the possibility than she used to be.

During an interview with TalkSport, Bayley was asked if she and Mone will ever face off in another match. The two close friends have been in opposite promotions since Mone left WWE and eventually joined AEW. Whether Mone ever returns to WWE or not, all that Bayley cares about is that she’s happy.

“I would hope so,” Bayley said about facing Mone again. “I don’t know deep down. I used to feel deep down that – Yes. But now I don’t know. I just all I can do is hold on to hope, which is what I’m best at. And as long as she’s happy, I’m happy.”

When they were in WWE together, Bayley and Mone had one of the most influential matches in recent company history at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015. The two also made history by becoming the first WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions after the belts were reintroduced in 2019.

Mone has been on a wrestling hiatus since the end of last year, but she’s gearing up for her return. She’s booked a slate of upcoming indie dates in countries like the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Poland, and Canada. A date for when she’ll be returning to AEW programming has not been announced yet.

During WrestleMania week this April, Bayley will be holding her second Lodestone Women’s Wrestling seminar for up-and-coming independent wrestlers.

The Demand added to RevPro High Stakes, Mercedes Mone’s opponent revealed

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Mercedes Mone’s opponent for RevPro High Stakes is set.

During a RevPro event on Sunday, Alexxis Falcon won a battle royal where the winner would face Mone on March 21. Other participants in the match included Rhio, Amira, and Kanji.

It was announced earlier this week that Mone would be at High Stakes, her first appearance for the promotion since December. Shortly after losing the TBS Championship later that month, Mone announced that she would be taking time off. However, she has since been announced for multiple bookings, including the CMLL Women’s Day Show on March 26, BestYa Wrestling in Italy on March 8, Banger Zone Wrestling in France on March 14, and Winnipeg Pro Wrestling on March 31.

It was also announced on Sunday that The Demand (Ricochet and GOA) would be coming to High Stakes to take on the Flying Bryant Brothers (Leland Bryant, Nino Bryant, and Zander Bryant). Ricochet’s group has been seen in other promotions ever since Ricochet won the National title last year. They were recently in CMLL and also competed at Friday’s NJPW New Beginning USA card, with Ricochet defending the National title against Taiji Ishimori and the GOA coming up short against the Knock Out Brothers for the IWGP Tag Team titles.

Mercedes Mone auctioning off ring-worn gear

Posted on by Ian Carey

Mercedes Mone is auctioning off several ring-worn items.

The former TBS champion announced in her Mone Mag that she is launching a limited-edition archive collection featuring authentic pieces from her wardrobe, including ring gear and accessories. She noted that quantities are extremely limited and that the items are only obtainable through her auction.

Among the items currently up for auction are the gear she wore at AEW Grand Slam 2025, the ring shoes she wore at NJPW’s Battle in the Valley, a custom Boss and Glow WWE Raw shirt from 2022, as well as several dresses she has worn through the years. Many of the items come signed by Mone.

Mone wrote:

“I’m opening my vault. Moné Wear is a limited-edition archive collection featuring authentic pieces from my wardrobe — yes, including ring gear and accessories — worn throughout more than 15 years of my defining and most memorable moments, each delivered as a collectible with a note from your CEO. Quantities are extremely limited and available by auction only, giving you a direct connection to my legacy and a first glimpse into the future of the Mercedes Moné fashion era. Action is going live week of Feb 22, 2026, on my website: www.mercedes.mone.com.”

Mone has not wrestled since AEW New Year’s Smash on New Year’s Eve. It was later revealed in early January that she was taking a sabbatical from wrestling. She is set to return to the ring next week, defending her CMLL World Women’s Championship against Persephone at Arena Mexico on March 6. She will then appear in Milan, Italy on March 8 for BestYa Wrestling, followed by a March 14 appearance in Paris, France.

A link to the items being auctioned is here.

CMLL notes: AEW wrestler loses hair, Mercedes Mone’s next challenger set

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Notes from Friday’s CMLL show in Arena Mexico.

The main event of the evening saw Johnny Consejo lose his hair to Angel de Oro, who emerged victorious after connecting with a frog splash. After the match, Johnny refused to go all the way with the cut. Oro responded by taking him out with a superkick, allowing the official to shave Johnny’s head. When he recovered, Johnny fled from the ring, dumbstruck that after all these years he was now bald.

Persephone will be next to challenge Mercedes Mone for the CMLL Women’s Championship, defeating Olympia on Friday after a kneeling Razor’s Edge. She and Mone previously met back in October, with Mone emerging victorious. Mone has been champion since last June and has made several appearances in Mexico to defend the title.

The two have also previously met in a four-way match back at Forbidden Door, with Mone retaining the TBS title over Persephone, Bozilla, and Alex Windsor.

Friday’s show also saw Claudio Castagnoli retain the CMLL Heavyweight title in a three-way match, defeating Akuma and Euphoria.

Daily Update: Mercedes Mone, Rocky Romero, BOSJ schedule

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  • Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania updates. Update on ticket sales to both shows as well as AEW Revolution and explanations of why and current interest level in tickets.
  • Notes on the giant gates WWE drew for WrestleMania last year and John Cena’s retirement.
  • How much Mania tickets have increased in recent years
  • Odds on this week shows
  • Gina Carano vs. Ronda Rousey and a history of how women’s MMA overcame so many obstacles due to those two. We look at what each did, their background, the story behind the 2014 fight that never happened and why this fight is happening, as well as addressing very serious questions regarding the fight.
  • A look at nostalgia fights and different ways to do them and how they work or don’t work
  • A look at the life and career of the Great Mephisto, one of the most creative minds in wrestling as a wrestler and booker of the 60s and 70s, including his heyday in San Francisco and Australia and stories about his confrontations with Roy Shire, copying from and teaming with The Sheik, Booking WCW in Australia, and a life that start as a street hustler in the depression to facing Hulk Hogan in his first match ever in Northern California.
  • The most detailed look at the television ratings over the past week, with comparisons, Nielsen and Netflix flaws, Olympics and more.
  • Major change in CMLL rules and thoughts about it
  • This past week in CMLL including a hot Friday night sold out show with Mistico vs. Templario
  • Mistico talks Observer awards
  • Saya Kamitani update
  • FantasticaMania first night
  • Cain Velasquez update
  • Notes on the death of Brett Wolverton and Kerwin Silfies
  • Mick Foley television series
  • Longest lasting pro wrestling ring announcer
  • Eve sets UK record
  • Tag team holds titles in Europe & Japan at the same time
  • TNA No Surrender notes
  • More on mainstream coverage of Brody King
  • More on WBD sale
  • Report that Trump will kill current deal
  • AEW in Australia notes
  • Sean Strickland is an idiot
  • Dana White talks boxing
  • Gable Steveson fights again and update
  • Janel Grant lawsuit update
  • Another WWE European tour and PLE show
  • Bad Bunny wrestling update

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WWE

  • Now that he’s retired and getting to spend more time at home, AJ Styles shared a photo on Instagram of his daughter doing his hair: “What are you doing now that you’re retired? Well, I’m currently getting my hair done by my daughter.”
  • D-Von Dudley hopes that Spike Dudley will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame:
    • If it wasn’t for him, I don’t know if the Dudleys would have gotten as far as we did. It was because of Spike and the crazy bumps that he took for us, and what he allowed us to do to him was why the Dudley Boyz really became the Dudley Boyz. If it’s anybody that belongs into the Hall of Fame, it’s Spike Dudley. So Triple H, I hope you’re listening. Please get my little brother in that Hall of Fame. He deserves every bit of it.
  • Mick Foley made an Instagram story post agreeing with The Undertaker about Chelsea Green being underutilized in WWE: “In total agreement with @undertaker on this. @chelseagreen is a star.”
  • Alexa Bliss tweeted out a message to NXT’s Tatum Paxley after Paxley revealed that watching Bliss is what inspired her to become a wrestler: “Thank you for the kindest words – can’t wait til we meet again in the ring @TatumPaxley”
  • ESPN continued the promotional push toward Elimination Chamber with Randy Orton, CM Punk, Je’Von Evans, Jey Uso, Tiffany Stratton, and Joe Tessitore making appearances.
  • Big E, Peter Rosenberg, and ESPN’s Joe Fortenbaugh hosted an Elimination Chamber preview show.
  • In an interview with The Takedown on SI, Trish Stratus shared what advice she would give AJ Lee ahead of Elimination Chamber. Lee is facing Becky Lynch at the PLE in what is Lee’s first singles match in more than a decade.
  • Stratus said:
    • Get your reps in, get to the place where you’re comfortable. You’re gonna think you’re not comfortable, but rely on your body. There is this aspect of it’s like riding a bike. You literally get to the point where like your body goes, I got this, as long as you can support it. And recovery-wise, make sure that you take care of all the things. I do my yoga, I do all the things to make sure I can support [the performance]. She’s gonna be great.
  • Tiffany Stratton trained with Ivy Nile for a video on Nile’s YouTube channel.
  • New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson was the guest on the latest episode of Stephanie McMahon’s “What’s Your Story?” podcast.

Other Wrestling

  • Ric Flair remembered his late son Reid on what would have been Reid’s 38th birthday:
    • Not A Day Goes By Where We Don’t Think About You Big Man! We All Know You Are In A Better Place, But It Doesn’t Make The Pain Ever Go Away. Reid, We Are All Remembering You Today On Your Birthday! Love & Miss You!
  • Mercedes Mone is returning to Poland on March 29 to defend her Prime Time Wrestling Women’s Championship against a yet-to-be-announced opponent.
  • Rocky Romero spoke to Fox News Digital about the working relationship that exists between AEW, NJPW, and CMLL:
    • What’s cool about it is AEW, especially Tony Khan, has so much respect and so much love for New Japan and New Japan has always been supportive of AEW. I think it’s a partnership that really works and obviously it’s an essential partnership when you’re going against someone who has such a huge market share in WWE. So, I think it’s very strategic and now that we’ve thrown CMLL into the mix, these three big promotions really working fluidly together and working on storylines that cross all three promotions and having talent go from each company and champions.
  • Rush, who has been out of action since November due to a knee injury, tweeted today: “I feel better than ever.”
  • Shop AEW released a new “Big Hebrew” T-shirt for MJF after he applied to trademark that term this week.
  • Comic book writer Steve Orlando was the guest on AEW Unrestricted today, discussing the partnership between DC Comics and AEW.
  • NJPW announced that this year’s Best of the Super Junior tournament will take place across 14 nights from May 14 through June 7. The participants have not been revealed yet. Here is the schedule:
    • Night 1: Thursday May 14 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
    • Night 2: Saturday May 16 Tokyo Esforte Arena Hachioji 
    • Night 3: Sunday May 17 Tokyo Yoyogi National 2nd Gymnasium
    • Night 4: Wednesday May 20 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
    • Night 5: Friday May 22 Osaka Asue Arena
    • Night 6: Saturday May 23 Hyogo Acrie Himeji
    • Night 7: Sunday May 24 Kyoto KBS Hall
    • Night 8: Wednesday May 27 Shizuoka Kira Messe Numazu
    • Night 9: Friday May 29 Niigata Tsubame Citizens Gymnasium
    • Night 10: Saturday May 30 Toyama Takaoka Techno Dome
    • Night 11 & 12: Tuesday June 2 & Wednesday June 3 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 
    • Night 13: Friday June 5 Gunma G Messe
    • Night 14 (Final): Sunday June 7 Tokyo Ota City Gymnasium
  • Shayna Baszler will face off against Kristara in a Voyageur Cup quarterfinal match for Winnipeg Pro Wrestling next month. The winner of the tournament challenges Mercedes Mone for the Winnipeg Pro Women’s Championship.
  • Ronda Rousey shared new footage of her training for her upcoming MMA fight against Gina Carano.
  • Comedian Brad Williams appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet.
  • Jeremy Peeples, a long-time writer for our website, has started a GoFundMe campaign to benefit the family of his housemate Sherry who suddenly passed away this week.

Mercedes Mone announced for RevPro High Stakes

Posted on by Ian Carey

Mercedes Mone is returning to RevPro.

The former TBS Champion has been announced for RevPro High Stakes on Saturday, March 21 at The Hangar in Wolverhampton, England.

It will be Mone’s first time wrestling for the promotion since she dropped the RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship to Alex Windsor on the December 17 episode of AEW Collision from Manchester.

The last time Mone wrestled for RevPro was three nights prior, when she successfully defended the title against Rhio at Uprising 2025 in Cardiff, Wales.

Mone has several international bookings scheduled for March. On March 6, she is scheduled to defend the CMLL World Women’s Championship at Arena Mexico as part of CMLL’s International Women’s Day event. She will then defend the BestYa Women’s Championship in Italy on March 8. Mone is also set to appear for Banger Zone Wrestling in Dreux, France on March 14. Following her RevPro appearance on March 21, she is booked for Winnipeg Pro Wrestling on March 31, the night before AEW presents Dynamite in the city.

Mone has not wrestled for AEW since New Year’s Smash on December 31. She later revealed that she was taking a sabbatical from the promotion.

Number one contender match set for Mercedes Mone’s CMLL Women’s title

Posted on by Shounak Chakrabarti

Currently reigning over 245-days as the CMLL Women’s Champion, Mercedes Mone is now all set to defend her title at CMLL Women’s Day Show.

In the Wednesday, February 18, 2026, edition of CMLL Informa, it was announced that Olympia & Persephone are scheduled to team up and face the duo Tessa Blanchard & Zeuxis on February 24. The members of the winning team will go on to face each other in a singles match on February 27, 2026.

The winner of that singles match will proceed to challenge Mone for the CMLL World Women’s Championship on March 6 during the CMLL Women’s Day show.

Next month’s show will be Mone’s first CMLL show since October 2025, where she had picked up a victory over Persephone. Mone defeated Zeuxis at AEW Grand Slam Mexico last year and has held the title since then.

Despite taking time away from AEW, Mone is scheduled for several other independent title defenses throughout the month of March.

CMLL Women’s Day Show lineup | March 6th, 2026 | Mexico City

  • Maika vs. Dark Silueta
  • Megabad (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford) vs. TBA
  • Mercedes Mone vs. TBA (Persephone, Olympia, Tessa Blanchard, and Zeuxis) for the CMLL World Women’s Championship

Mercedes Mone: $99.99 a ‘low price’ for text service

Posted on by Vincent Verhei

Mercedes Mone hasn’t wrestled a match since New Year’s Eve. How is she paying bills while sitting on the shelf? Apparently, by charging fans about a hundred bucks a month for texts. 

Mone talked about the service while appearing along with international rival Mina Shirakawa on the We Playin’ Spades show with Nick Cannon and Courtney Bee. (Though the interview was released on Monday, it was taped several months ago, when Mone only had four titles.) “There so many people that say ‘Oh, I’m talking to you, I’m messaging you,’” she said. “And they’re getting scammed. So I’m like ‘How about you really do talk to me? You talk to the people that you love, but you got to pay me $99 a month, but I’m texting you whenever I’m free.”

Cannon and Bee were stunned by this price and asked if Mone was texting “sexy stuff.” “No, no sexy stuff,” Mone insisted. “You know, these are just my legit fans. It’s the Mone crew, the people that love me, that respect me, that want to know the ins and outs of my day and how I’m feeling, how is it being a CEO, and I teach them.”

Cannon, still in shock, began to repeat the price over and over. “Isn’t that great?” Mone asked. “It’s a low price. Very low.”

Money launched her texting service in April of 2025. We have no word on how successful her venture has been. 

Though they were partners in spades, Mone and Shirakawa have been rivals several times in AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, including three championship matches with four different championships at stake. They were also on opposing teams in AEW’s Blood & Guts match last November. 

Mercedes Mone comments amid AEW absence

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Mercedes Mone is prioritizing self care during her break from the ring.

Since dropping the TBS Championship to Willow Nightingale at the end of 2025, Mone has taken some time off from wrestling. When she’ll be returning to AEW is not known yet, but it will likely be soon with Mone picking up indie bookings in France and Canada for the month of March. She’s also set to return to Mexico for CMLL on March 6.

Mexico is where Mone currently is right now, with her sharing on Instagram that she is undergoing stem cell treatment at the RejuvStem clinic. Mone also recently visited the House of Sun spa in Los Angeles as she gets ready to return to the ring.

“So I’ve been really trying to enjoy this time off by really healing my body and taking care of myself,” Mone said in an Instagram Stories post today. “Because I want to come back to the ring better than ever. I’m going to be very busy in March because I still have a lot of championships to defend. Yes, I defend my titles, b*tches. But I’ve just been really taking this time to feel good, and I really want to feel good inside and outside. If you saw a couple of my videos at the House of Sun, oh my God, my back, my neck feel so amazing. I’ve never felt my spine just feel so straight.

“Now I’m here in Cancun, Mexico for stem cell treatment. I came down to RejuvStem because a lot of my co-workers came down here and told me about their results, so I’m super excited for feeling the best version of myself.”

Rey Mysterio, MVP, Big E, Ivar, and Sami Zayn are some of the wrestlers RejuvStem has treated in the past.

It was announced on the January 10 episode of AEW Collision that Mone would be taking a break from AEW after losing the TBS Championship. In storyline, Mone said she was tired of being disrespected by everyone in the women’s division and would be coming after them once she returned.

Mercedes Mone title defense, Megan Bayne debut part of CMLL Women’s Day Show

Posted on by Shounak Chakrabarti

AEW’s Mercedes Mone, Megan Bayne, and Penelope Ford have been announced as part of CMLL’s upcoming Women’s Day show on March 6th, 2026.

On Wednesday’s CMLL Informa, it was announced that Mone will defend her CMLL World Women’s Championship at the event against an opponent to be named. Mone won the title last June and has had three title defenses since then. Just one has taken place in Mexico (last October) which is also her last appearance in the country.

While she is taking time away from AEW, Mone is also scheduled for several other independent title defenses throughout March.

AEW’s Megabad (Bayne & Ford) are also scheduled to appear at the show and make their CMLL debut. Their opponents have yet to be announced.

Current CMLL Women’s Day Show lineup | March 6th, 2026 | Mexico City

  • Mercedes Mone vs. TBA for the CMLL World Women’s Championship
  • Megabad (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford) vs. TBA
  • Maika vs. Dark Silueta