During a recent appearance on the “Close Up” podcast, AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May declared that she is better than TBS Champion Mercedes Mone.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Mone joining AEW: “I don’t care. Honestly, half the time, I don’t know she’s stepped in here because I don’t know this, but she has her own locker room. So she says she’s here to help and she cares so much? So come into our locker room. Come into our tiny little locker room and help us, teach us, share your knowledge from all these years of experience you’ve apparently had. But no, she’s sitting in her locker room, and she’s writing her Mone Mag. I mean, how many people are reading that magazine? Who actually cares about your magazine? Because I care about women’s wrestling, and I care about being on the show and getting more than 10 minutes. So if you care, come step in the room with me.”
On if she feels slighted by Mone getting more TV time: “Yeah, I do. Because I think I’m better.”
During a recent interview with “Sports Guys Talk Wrestling,” Bobby Lashley addressed a potential rematch with Swerve Strickland and threatened to hurt him if they crossed paths again.
Lashley said, “I think that happened is that we’re going to ruffle a lot of feathers over at AEW. Because when we first come in there, we’re just gonna be beating people up and taking what we want. I think a lot of people are gonna get upset. Unfortunately, Swerve was just right there, and he caught a bullet. When MVP passes you a card, that is your golden ticket to success. He didn’t understand that. He wanted to stay with Prince Nana, and he wanted to continue on the path that he’s been going. Well, the path that he’s been on was losing matchups. He was on a losing streak before we came to him, and we wanted to change his whole life. But he didn’t see it that way. I think now, after being in a match with me at Full Gear and after me beating him, after putting him to sleep, I think he’s a little hurt, and I think he wasn’t coming to the podium to start a fight with me. I think that he was coming on the podium to kind of request another opportunity, which I understand. He wants another opportunity to be a part of the Hurt Syndicate. We just don’t know if we’re gonna give it to him. So whatever he’s trying to do, I said, hey man, we’re gonna put an ad on Indeed and a couple of the other sites, and you can apply. We’ll look at your application and see if you have the ability to be in it. But right now, the answer’s no [laughs]. If you want to get back in the ring with me, I’m gonna beat you up again, but this time, I’m gonna send you on a little vacation. It’s called the hospital or surgery, however you want to say it. But he doesn’t want to mess with me. He’s gonna have to start back with someone else, build himself up a little bit so he gets a little bit more confidence. I think that when we had the match, he didn’t have all the confidence. I think he was a little down on himself. I felt like when I locked in the Hurt Lock on him, I could feel him almost give away, give up right away. So I knew he just took too big of a jump. That’s what his problem is. Swerve, I like the guy, he’s phenomenal, he’s an incredible wrestler, but I think he just needs to kind of take his time to find somebody else on the roster to go after, build himself up, get a little bit more confidence, and then come see me.”
Lashley defeated Strickland at AEW Full Gear 2024 last month.
