Mercedes Mone vacates final title due to promotion’s budget issues
No belts Mone.
The now former champion wrote in her Mone Mag (h/t Fightful) that she had to vacate the APAC Women’s title due to issues with the promotion, saying that they were unable to fly her out to Malaysia to wrestle there and were not willing to work with other promotions in order to find a solution.
“While I was in London, I had to make a tough call. I sent the Malaysia Championship back. My team and I really tried to make things work—we put in the effort, had the conversations, and explored every option. But at the end of the day, they told us they didn’t have the budget to fly me out and weren’t open to working with other promotions,” she wrote. “For me? That just didn’t align with the vision. So I made the decision to vacate the title.”
With the vacancy Mone is officially out of titles as the only one remaining, the Owen Hart Foundation tournament title, is only defended annually.
At her peak Mone held thirteen titles at once including the TBS Championship, the CMLL Women’s Championship, the ROH Women’s Television Championship, and the RevPro Undisputed Women’s Championship among others. Her slide started at the end of last year with the most prominent loss being to Willow Nightingale for the TBS title on the final AEW Dynamite of 2025. Mone took a break from AEW television following the loss but resurfaced in March, dropping all of her other titles including recently losing the Winnipeg Pro Wrestling Women’s title to Jody Threat.
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