THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE
I know this issue has been a little more personal than usual. I wanted to share the excitement of All In and Paris, but I also wanted to be open about the fact that these past two months have been difficult. Thank you for continuing to show up for me, for celebrating the championship with […]
THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHAT’S NEXT
One thing that hasn’t changed is how much I believe in what we can create with the AEW Women’s World Championship. I’ve wanted this title since before I officially became part of AEW, and now that I have it, I’m thinking about all the places it can go and all the opportunities we can create […]
FINDING MY WAY THROUGH IT ALL
I think one of the hardest things about these past two months has been how quickly life can change. At Wembley, I was experiencing one of the happiest moments of my career. Not long afterward, I was dealing with grief I never expected. And through all of it, wrestling was still there. There were days […]
REMEMBERING PAC
And then, while I was still grieving my sister, we unexpectedly lost PAC. That was incredibly hard, and it still is. I’ve known PAC since FCW. We were at NXT together, and when I think about him, I don’t only think about the incredible wrestler everybody watched on television. I think about all the years […]
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY SISTER, ALEXIS VARNADO
September was an incredibly hard month for me because I lost my younger sister, Alexis. It’s still difficult to talk about. She was so young, and knowing she left behind two young children makes my heart hurt even more. One memory I keep thinking about is when we went to WrestleMania together in Atlanta when […]
FROM WEMBLEY TO FORBES: THE POWER OF WOMEN’S WRESTLING
One of the biggest honors I’ve had recently was attending the 2026 Forbes Power Women’s Summit in New York City. To be invited into a room filled with some of the most influential women in business, sports, and entertainment was an incredible feeling. And I wasn’t walking into that room just as Mercedes Moné. I […]
DJ MONÉ TAKES PARIS!
After having so much fun DJing at Sweet Chin Disco in London, I knew I had to do it again in Paris. There is something so amazing about seeing fans come together and have the best time just because of their love for professional wrestling and its music. We all have those wrestling theme songs […]
PARIS, JE T’AIME!
One of the things I love about being AEW Women’s World Champion is getting to take this championship around the world. And this month, that meant Paris. I defended my championship against Queen Aminata at AEW Grand Slam: France, and I loved that we got to have that match there. Queen Aminata is such a […]
THE BLACK SWAN
I also have to talk about my entrance because I loved how everything came together. My vision was Black Swan meets Queen of Hearts, with beautiful ballerinas dressed in black and this incredible jacket created by my good friend Jeffrey Kelly. Jeffrey has been creating for me since 2018. He also made my WrestleMania 37 […]
DJ MONÉ
And somehow, after all of that, I still went to DJ at Sweet Chin Disco with performance by Lio Rush. Yes, with a broken nose. Exhausted, beat up, broken, blood still dripping down my nose. But I loved getting to meet fans who had literally just come from Wembley. They were telling me what they […]