With two championships currently attached to her name, Mercedes Mone has made her 2024 return to wrestling quite a successful one. Looking ahead to 2025, though, Mone is aiming to expand her empire and her title collection even more.
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"[My main goals of 2025 are] just to keep on winning, keep on making money, and I really want more gold," Mone said at the AEW Full Gear post-show media scrum. "When I wear my TBS Championship around my waist, and I wear my New Japan Strong [title] around my shoulder, my other shoulder is cold. It hurts. It's winter time. I need something. I need more gold, so 2025, I'm coming for everything that I deserve.
"I'm so thankful for AEW for that opportunity because I've gotten that so far, but 2025, I want more gold," Mone continued. "I want more opportunity. I want to keep on changing the game of women's wrestling here in AEW, because the women here, I know the slogan is the best is here, but the women's wrestling here is the greatest. I felt like me and Kris Statlander proved that tonight."
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As Mone alluded to, she and Kris Statlander delivered a history-making performance at AEW Full Gear as they solidified themselves as the longest running women's match in AEW. Statlander fought hard against "The CEO," but ultimately fell to a roll-up around the 19 minute and 25 second mark, thus allowing Mone to retain her TBS Championship.
Elsewhere, Mone reigns as the NJPW STRONG Women's Champion, making her a natural candidate to appear at the cross-promotional show Wrestle Dynasty between NJPW, AEW, ROH, STARDOM, and CMLL on January 5. And according to Mone herself, we can "absolutely" expect her to be there.
If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit AEW with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
