Mercedes Mone has lastly revealed the explanation she walked out on WWE and says she was left feeling like she didn’t belong within the firm.
Previous to taking up the world as Mercedes Mone, the AEW TBS Champion made her identify in WWE as Sasha Banks. As her profession progressed Mone turned identified not solely as one of many greatest feminine stars within the firm however one of many greatest stars on the entire roster.
That every one modified when Mercedes Mone and Naomi each sensationally walked out of WWE in Might 2022 whereas nonetheless the reigning WWE Girls’s Tag Group Champions. WWE made the uncommon transfer of acknowledging the very real-life drama on TV with Michael Cole asserting the pair had been suspended.
Finally, each girls left the corporate, though after a stint in TNA, Naomi has now returned. For Mercedes Mone, nevertheless, it was off to NJPW earlier than signing with AEW the place she has made a giant splash.
Mercedes Mone Says WWE Exit Was Her Hardest Determination
Talking on Scorching 97, Mercedes Mone was requested immediately why she walked out of WWE in 2022 and revealed she was not pleased with how she had been spoken to on the day she left:
There’s so many reasonings [why she left WWE]. The largest factor is simply listening to my coronary heart and my soul. One thing didn’t really feel proper that day, how we have been talked to didn’t settle in my coronary heart and I simply immediately knew if I wasn’t gonna take management of my life proper right here and now then I used to be by no means going to be comfortable there having somebody speak to me the way in which that they do or feeling such as you simply don’t belong like okay I’ve been doing this for 14 years and to really feel this low, my soul’s like no stand up go.
It was the toughest choice, WWE’s at all times been my dream [from] after I was 10 years previous. To be with that firm for 10 years, to stroll out was the toughest choice I’ve ever made in my entire life but it surely’s now the best choice I’ve ever made as a result of the place I’m at this time, the TBS Champion, the highest-paid girl in girls’s wrestling historical past. Thanks Kev, thanks Tony, thanks AEW.
I can go on and on about these wonderful alternatives since I listened to my coronary heart and walked out. I walked out of that door and I walked into so many extra doorways that have been open for me. So it’s a stupendous factor when one door closes or once they wish to push you out of it, simply know there’s so many doorways, there’s so many keys ready so that you can seize to go open these doorways and alternatives so it’s a must to go on the market and get it.
And realize it’s okay to be afraid, it’s okay to make errors as a result of that’s the way you develop, that’s the way you be taught. These previous 2 years are the place I’ve grown essentially the most and it’s essentially the most fulfilling feeling on this planet realizing that I made errors however how I overcame them and the place I’m at this time as a result of I really feel the best I’ve ever felt in my entire life.
Mercedes Mone left AEWx NJPW Forbidden Door as a double champion as she defeated Stephanie Vaquer to retain her TBS Title and win the NJPW STRONG Girls’s Championship.
Mone had little time to rejoice nevertheless as she was confronted by Dr Britt Baker DMD who made her long-awaited return to AEW.
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