Mercedes Moné Talks Leaving WWE, Feels Better Than Ever On What’s Next

Mercedes Moné is looking forward in her career but also reflecting about the past. Everyone is expecting Moné to debut for AEW next Wednesday on March 13 at Big Business.

While speaking on The Kick Rocks podcast, Moné said the following about leaving WWE back in 2022. A topic she has been rather tight lipped about since leaving the company.

“Something inside of me told me that I needed to go do this and stand up for myself. It was a very hard decision because wrestling in WWE has been my whole life. People don’t know, it’s been my whole life. It’s the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my whole life, but it’s the proudest. It’s crazy, because I would not be sitting here, living the best version of my life and getting to be everything I’ve ever dreamt of, and more. It makes me so excited because that moment changed my whole life for the better. I’m so thankful for that moment. I’m so proud of myself. I’m so proud of Trinity, of just how strong we were. “

As for her future, Moné feels better than ever. After leaving WWE, Moné went to Japan and became the second IWGP Women’s Champion for NJPW after defeating KAIRI in February 2023.

Once AEW CEO Tony Khan announced the Big Business episode coming on March 13 in Boston we knew that Moné was coming. Even the verbiage on the announcement showed Bo$$ton.

Moné said the following about her future –

“I’m going to come back really soon and have the greatest time, the greatest matches, the greatest career I’ve had yet.

Because I see it, I feel it and I know it.”

She continues, “I feel more ready and better than ever, and I cannot wait to see all my prior plans of 2023 come into fruition in 2024.

I’ve been making some really big moves, Big Business moves, and big money moves.”

Laslty, she also talks about Bayley and how proud she is of her.

“I am nothing but so proud and so happy for her. And to be the person from afar, I get to see her from afar I get to see her do all this and see all her hard work, and hear her talk about her dreams and her hopes and what she wants to do in that business, and to see it come through and to see so much magic that woman can make.

She does so much for that division and I’m just beyond proud to know, to me, that she is going to Main event WrestleMania, because that’s how it should be.

I am just beyond the moon for her, shes had a crazy past three years coming from the pandemic, getting injured, seeing her go through that.”