AEW Plans for Mercedes Mone Have Been Scrapped – The highly anticipated return of Mercedes Mone from injury seems unlikely to occur in AEW, contrary to earlier expectations.
Mercedes Mone, known as Sasha Banks in her WWE tenure, was initially anticipated to make her AEW debut after being spotted in the crowd at Wembley Stadium during All In.
Speculation arose that she might debut during AEW’s Blood and Guts episode at TD Garden in Boston, her hometown, had she not sustained an injury in a match aiming to crown the inaugural NJPW Strong Women’s Champion. Her subsequent ankle surgery months ago has kept her out of action.
According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select, plans for Mone’s AEW debut have been shelved. He debunked rumors suggesting Mone demanded significant compensation from WWE for a return.
“So a lot of times, you’ll see me get frustrated with irresponsible aggregation. And that happened very heavily, specifically on Facebook with a Sasha Banks story. SportsKeeda ran an article, and nobody reached out to me or anything to clarify any language, which is always a possibility, but it got aggregated by like dozens of Facebook accounts that said that I claimed that Mercedes/Sasha was demanding huge money from WWE. I have not heard anything of talks with WWE. What I said is I heard that the number that she’s after is a lot, and if I were WWE, I would pay it. I didn’t say who or what kind of talks were happening. And that type of context is very, very important. But I have not heard of any ongoing talks, with them, for a return or anything like that. So, it’s a little bit frustrating in that regard, but I haven’t heard anything lately. Besides that, the once working plans for AEW and Mercedes are no longer working plans.”
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AEW Plans for Mercedes Mone Have Been Scrapped
