{"id":349452,"date":"2026-06-12T01:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349452"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:24:47","slug":"mercedes-mone-explains-her-recent-aew-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/mercedes-mone-explains-her-recent-aew-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Mone Explains Her Recent AEW Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Mercedes Mone made her return to AEW television on the June 3 episode of Dynamite, entering the Owen Hart Foundation Women\u2019s Tournament because the mystery Wild Card participant.<\/p>\n<p>The looks marked Mone\u2019s first AEW match since dropping the TBS Championship to Willow Nightingale at AEW: Latest 12 months\u2019s Smash and her first time back on AEW programming since January.<\/p>\n<p>In the newest edition of her Mone Mag newsletter, Mone addressed her lengthy absence and make clear the explanations behind her time away from the corporate. She wrote,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m back and I feel higher than ever.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Almost 6 months away. I\u2019ve never had a break that long that wasn\u2019t attributable to injury and after 16 years it was the primary time I got to actually calm down and haven&#8217;t any worries.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>But one thing I noticed during that point away?<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>I missed wrestling a lot.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Especially that AEW.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>While I used to be gone I saw all of the rumors.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>\u201cOh she\u2019s pregnant.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>\u201cOh contract issues.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>\u201cOh she\u2019s leaving.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>\u201cOh this.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>\u201cOh that.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Oh\u2026<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>NOTHING.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Can I enjoy my vacation in peace?<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Can a lady have a period and be bloated?<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Can I enjoy my day without work without speculation and rumors?<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>One thing I also learned is there\u2019s no person more impatient than wrestling fans.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Y\u2019all are the style of individuals who look up the ending of a movie before ending it. You like not being surprised. You like not being present and fully within the moment since you\u2019re so caught up within the fantasy.<\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em>But now the wait is over.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you might have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you just\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit shall be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b5e7f6d9d4c7dee5e2e6f5ecd4dddada9bd6dad8\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes Mone made her return to AEW television on the June 3 episode of Dynamite, entering the Owen Hart Foundation Women\u2019s Tournament because the mystery Wild Card participant. The looks marked Mone\u2019s first AEW match since dropping the TBS Championship to Willow Nightingale at AEW: Latest 12 months\u2019s Smash and her first time back on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[5646,10436,2704,6401,14372],"class_list":["post-349452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-absence","tag-aew","tag-explains","tag-mercedes","tag-mone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349455,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349452\/revisions\/349455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}