Even though Mercedes Mone has only been a part of NJPW for a little more than a week, she appears to have already offended some people.
At Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4, the former Sasha Banks made her NJPW debut by attacking KAIRI. This prompted Mone to challenge KAIRI for the IWGP Women’s Championship at the Battle in the Valley event on February 18.
Mone has been active on social media by sharing photos and videos from her training sessions with other Japanese wrestling stars.
Some people in NJPW don’t want Mone posting photos with stars from other companies. Dave Meltzer wrote the following in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
“There were people talking because of the belief Mone has been promoting Sendai Girls and Tokyo Joshi Pro more than Stardom and the IWGP women’s title. She posted photos from the Sendai Girls dojo saying she wanted to wrestle women that work for that promotion and Tokyo Joshi Pro. The feeling is that now that she’s with Bushiroad, she (should) be only promoting Bushiroad companies in Japan.”
Mone didn’t go to any STARDOM shows or the dojo in Japan. Nobody has likely explained the mentality in Japan about this sort of thing to her.
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