The former Boss of WWE, Mercedes Moné made her much-anticipated debut for AEW at the Big Business special episode. Following her arrival at the Jacksonville-based promotion, she had a special sit-down interview with Renee Paquette.
During the interview, the self-proclaimed CEO of AEW reflected on the injury she suffered during her match against Willow Nightingale for the NJPW Strong Women’s Championship.
“Well… People think it’s my ankle. Little do they know, it’s more than just an ankle guys. I can hurt a foot. I can hurt more than everything. And if you listen to my new hit Single, ‘CEO’, I actually mention what I broke. So, you can be prepared for that. But it was honestly such a shocking and a shock feeling when that happened. I was so, on a mission already. When that happened, I was so confused. I was like, ‘Why? Like why? I don’t understand what I did. Why is this happening?’ But I knew I had to go through it and go straight through it. And I know I needed to slow down and heal. Cuz I wasn’t done healing. The universe is saying, ‘Heal, heal heal.’ It is so hard. It’s so hard.”
Speaking of heal… Mercedes mentions hurting her heel in her new CEO theme song.
Mercedes Moné discussed about her healing time with one of her friends
Moné also mentioned that one of her friends mentioned that it might take a long time to heal, but The CEO could not wait even for a mere ten days to heal up and return to the ring.
“I was talking to my friend one time. She’s like, ‘You know, you can’t heal overnight. If you were in a company for ten years, it might take you ten years to heal.’ And I go, ‘Oh no! I can give it maybe ten days, but I’m ready to move on.’ Little did we know, it took ten months.”
Mercedes Moné was in utter shock but still was hoping to finish the match against Willow Nightingale
Despite getting injured and bing in a state of shock, the one thing that was running in the mind of Mercedes Moné was that she had to finish wrestling the match. But sadly, she was unable to hit her finisher and that’s when she realized that the injury was a major one.
“But when that happened, I was in such shock. I remember falling and just being like, ‘Ooh! That hurt. And what just happened? Did it look like she took something? Or did I?’ I was just laying there like, ‘Huh? Well, I got to finish the match.’ And I rolled in, try to stood up, was like, ‘Dang, there’s something wrong.’ Tried to keep on finishing the match and I went up for my finisher, and I was like, ‘Dang! This is broken. Damn! This sucks!’ And… Everything just changed in that instant. I was like, ‘I hope this is just a sprained ankle. I hope this is just a rolled ankle. But I instantly knew something was majorly up and it was broken.”
Mercedes Moné was struggling to walk on her own two feet
“Went straight to the hospital. Stayed at the hospital for six hours. They gave me X-Rays but it was so swollen that they’re like, ‘Yeah, it’s fine. You can go home.’ Couldn’t even walk out. All of my friends were out in the parking lot waiting for me. They wheeled me to an Uber. My friend had to carry me from the Uber to the hotel. Push me in a chair just so I can go to the bathroom. Buy my own crutches to go to the airport and get so many different opinions because I’m just like, ‘This doesn’t feel right.’”
“I finally got the call that it was broken and I would need surgery. And I really thought like, ‘This is over.’ It sucked cuz I didn’t know how long I was going to be out. And how long I was going to be gone from something that has been my whole life. I don’t know anything but wrestling. Because it’s been my whole life that I’ve given everything for it.”
The CEO was ready to recover the second she got injured
The surgeon told Moné that her injury was potentially career-ending. But The former WWE Raw Women’s Champion was not convinced and was determined to return to wrestling at any cost.
“So when I finally had my surgery and I came out of it, and the surgeon was like, “I just have to tell you, and I hate to say this. But this is career-ending.’ Instantly I was like, ‘No it’s not. It’s not going to be. It’s not.’ I was ready to recover the second I got hurt. My mind was already in a place of healing that I knew that nothing can stop me from coming back to wrestling. I didn’t know when, I didn’t know where I didn’t know even how.
“I just knew in my heart that I was going to be back. And then, ten months later, I am here in Boston, with all of my friends and family and people from all over the globe. All over the world, came here tonight. Came to Big Business to celebrate this. This I got to create, all this magic that I got to make. They came to celebrate with me. And it was the most special celebration in the whole world.”
What did this injury teach Moné?
The injury taught Moné how to be strong and much more.
“And knock on wood, I never want to get hurt again. But to go through that experience, I am just so beyond thankful. It taught me so much. It taught me how to be strong, it taught me that I can even believe in my heart and my mind. Even that much more. It taught me everything that I needed to know. I went from a Boss and I went to a CEO. I still put the Boss in Boston of course. But to level up and to just really grow and to figure out that mission, that goal, that hunger that I’ve been missing for so long. At Big Business it just reminded me why I fight so hard for wrestling and for women’s wrestling. It’s the best feeling in the whole world,” Mercedes Moné said.
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