Mercedes Moné Suffered Almost Career-Ending Injury In 2023

Mercedes Moné has been out of action for over 10 months, with a mid-match ankle injury during a match against Willow Nightingale in New Japan Pro-Wrestling putting the former IWGP Women’s Champion out of action indefinitely.

Moné is assumed to be making her All Elite Wrestling debut imminently, with the Big Business special of Dynamite on March 13 expected to be the launch-pad for Moné’s AEW career. However, during an interview on the Kick Rocks Wrestling podcast, Moné revealed how her injury was at point considered potentially career-ending:

“I feel more ready and more better than ever and I cannot wait to see all my prior plans of 2023 come into fruition to 2024. I’ve been making some really big moves. Big business moves and big money moves, you know? And just this whole time of healing, I got to work on so many other things that I have such a passion for. I think fans are gonna be really excited and they’re gonna be like, finally!

“That I’ll be releasing music this year. I am still acting and got some amazing, amazing things in the works and I got to audition for incredible roles in movies so, we gotta keep on manifesting great things about that and I finally think I found a home in a wrestling place. Yeah. So it’s really, really exciting and I’m excited about these big money moves.

“Little do people know, I was told that this was a career-ending injury and I screamed at my doctor and surgeon. I said, ‘No, it’s not’ and I’m going to come back really soon and I’m going to have just the greatest time, the greatest matches, the greatest career that I’ve ever had yet because I see it and I feel it and I know it,” said Moné.

H/T: TJRWrestling