Mercedes Mone on Her Being In Talks With WWE At Time Of AEW All In 2023 & Tony Khan Wanted Her To Do Segment With Willow Nightingale

Mercedes Mone recently released a new issue of her Mone Mag fan newsletter. One of the topics discussed included Mone’s thoughts about her appearance in the crowd at AEW’s All In 2023 event and how she was still in conversations with WWE at the time for a potential return.

“Let me take you all the way back to 2023. At the time, I was still going back and forth in talks with WWE when I got an invitation to go to All In London. Now, you guys know me. I LOVE professional wrestling. So there was absolutely NO WAY I was going to miss the opportunity to witness something this big—a wrestling show of this magnitude, outside of WWE, at Wembley Stadium. I love history. I love being around history, and even more than that, I love being a part of it. The second I got to London, something just felt different. The energy was right.”

Mone also gave her thoughts about how AEW CEO Tony Khan wanted her to do a segment with Willow Nightingale at the show despite her not being signed with the company and how she just wanted to sit back and watch a wrestling show as a fan for the first time in quite some time.

“Then I saw Tony backstage, and he was SO excited to have me there. So excited, in fact, that he wanted me to do a backstage segment with… WILLOW! I was like— WOWOWOWOW. WAIT! I am NOT signed. I do NOT work here. I’m just here to enjoy the show! Backstage, I got to see so many familiar faces—Amanda Huber, Renee, Rusev—and I got to meet so many new people too. Then I was escorted to my box seats, and for once… I got to be a FAN. Do you understand how rare that is for me? I never really got the opportunity to sit in the crowd and just be a fan at WrestleMania. Okay… MAYBE there was one time I went in disguise for Bayley’s match. But that’s another story. This time, I could actually sit there. No match to prepare for. No entrance to think about. No pressure. Just Moné and more than 80,000 screaming wrestling fans celebrating the thing I love most in this entire world. From the way I was treated to the moment I arrived at Wembley, I remember thinking: Wait… I Love this!”