Mercedes Mone is richer by the dozen. Tatum Paxley will challenge Jacy Jayne for the NXT Women’s Championship. Londyn Dior chats with WrestleZone and more!
Mercedes 12 Belts Arrives
The championship collection of Mercedes Moné has grown even bigger following recent events.
On October 10, Moné headed to Denmark for a shot at Aliss Ink’s BODYSLAM Women’s Championship. Despite a valiant effort from Ink, it was Moné that walked out of the match as the new BODYSLAM Women’s Champion, bringing her collection to a total of ten. Of course, that number rose even higher during the following weekend.
At AEW WrestleDream, Moné laid out an open challenge for any other current titleholder to step up and face her, with both their and Moné’s AEW TBS Championships on the line. Interim ROH Women’s Television Champion Mina Shirakawa answered the call, but later fell victim to a rope-assisted backslide from Moné. As such, Moné retained her TBS Championship and welcomed the Interim ROH Women’s TV Championship to her name.
24 hours removed from WrestleDream in St. Louis, Moné flew up north to Winnipeg to vie for Jody Threat’s WPW Women’s Championship. Like the previous title matches, “The CEO” emerged victorious, and subsequently elevated her moniker to 12 Belts Moné.
With her latest three title wins, Moné’s collection is as follows:
- AEW TBS Championship
- AEW Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Championship
- BestYa Women’s Championship
- BODYSLAM Women’s Championship
- CMLL World Women’s Championship
- DW Women’s Championship
- EWA Women’s Championship
- PTW Women’s Championship
- RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship
- Interim ROH Women’s World Television Championship
- Queen of Southside Championship
- WPW Women’s Championship
At AEW Full Gear, Moné will challenge Kris Statlander for the AEW Women’s World Championship. Heading into the event, Statlander is 0-2 against Moné in singles competition.
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AEW Announces Women’s Tag Title Tournament Brackets
Next week, All Elite Wrestling will kick off a tournament to crown its first-ever Women’s Tag Team Champions. Following a four-way tag win on AEW Dynamite, Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter hand-selected Julia Hart and Skye Blue as their opening round opponents.
The full lineup of tournament participants is as follows:
- Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter
- Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue)
- Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron
- Mercedes Mone and Athena
- Alex Windsor and Riho
- Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa
- Top Gods (Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford)
- TayJay (Tay Melo and Anna Jay)
Rounding out the left side of the tournament bracket, Nightingale and Cameron will take on Mone and Athena, with the winners moving on to face either Hayter/Aminata or the Sisters of Sin in the semi-finals. On the other side, Shirakawa and Storm will face Windsor and Riho in the first round, while The Top Gods will battle TayJay.
As of this writing, the time and place of the tournament finals are unknown.
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Tatum Paxley To Challenge NXT Women’s Champ Jacy Jayne
With Halloween on the horizon, WWE NXT has loaded up its next premium live event card with some spooky talents and stipulations.
WWE NXT Halloween Havoc will emanate from the Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on October 25, with two women’s titles on the line. Firstly, Tatum Paxley will challenge Jacy Jayne for the NXT Women’s Championship. This comes after Paxley outlasted 20 other competitors, including her Culling stablemate Izzi Dame, in a battle royal on NXT television. Jayne had held the NXT Women’s title since May, when she shockingly dethroned Stephanie Vaquer.
Elsewhere at Halloween Havoc, Zaria will defend the NXT Women’s North American Championship on behalf of Sol Ruca, who sustained an injury on last week’s episode of WWE SmackDown. Zaria’s opponent? Blake Monroe, who has caused a multitude of chaos since arriving in WWE earlier this year.
As of now, the timetable for Ruca’s in-ring return remains unknown, though she still simultaneously carries the WWE Women’s Speed Championship.
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INTERVIEWS
“The Diamond Princess” Londyn Dior speaks with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her passion for fashion, which trends should stay and go, how Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker inspired her to pursue pro wrestling, competing for the ROW Women’s Tag Team Championships, her upcoming match against Maya World and Kris Statlander at Metroplex, what she’s learned from training with Athena, favorite Halloween treats and movies, and more.
Former AEW Women’s Champion Jamie Hayter chatted with Denise Salcedo about her AEW career, being a former AEW Women’s Champion, eyeing the first-ever women’s Blood & Guts, the AEW women’s division, hobbies outside of the wrestling ring, the inspiration behind her new look, and more.
WWE Evolve Women’s Champion Kendal Grey joined MuscleManMacolm to talk about her recent title win on WWE Evolve Succession, her time since joining WWE, WrestleMania 42 coming back to her hometown of Las Vegas, amateur wrestlers being compared to Kurt Angle, her long and short-term goals in WWE, and more.
WWE star Natalya sat down with Chris Van Vliet to discuss her new autobiography “Last Hart Beating,” the most difficult chapters to write about, why her path to WWE was not as easy as some may have expected, her new character outside of WWE that has competed at Bloodsport, slapping Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 26, when her husband Tyson Kidd broke his neck in the ring, and more.
Former WWE star Jazmyn Nyx appeared on The Ariel Helwani Show to discuss her early soccer career, her WWE tryout, why she decided to turn down WWE’s offer after not getting a raise, receiving reality TV opportunities, controversial comments by her boyfriend that drew backlash from the wrestling community, being open to remaining in the wrestling world, and more.
