Mercedes Mone Thinks AEW Should Focus On Being Its Own Brand Rather Than Trying To Chase WWE

Mercedes Mone doesn’t think it’s realistically possible for AEW to “close the gap” in competition with WWE because both promotions are simply in entirely different phases of their existence. 

Mercedes Mone spent several years of her career in WWE and is now charting a new course in All Elite Wrestling. While both companies are direct competitors, AEW has only existed for five years, while WWE has decades of history as the industry standard to fall back on. 

During an appearance on The Breakfast Club, Mercedes Mone was asked about what AEW could do to catch up to WWE. Mone said she wasn’t sure if there was much AEW could do to close the gap in the lead that WWE has over AEW because they’re two different companies running two different races. Mercedes feels that AEW should focus on its strengths rather than trying to close the gap. 

“I don’t know what it means to close the gap. I feel like it’s always gonna be a weird competition, but AEW’s only been around for five years. WWE has been around for 30-plus. I don’t know what kind of gap you can close with that, with such a big gap of someone who’s been around for so long. I think AEW just has to keep on being its own brand and being AEW and being where the best wrestle. That’s our slogan, and that’s where, legit, the greatest wrestlers are signed there, the best performers are signed there, and you get to see that every week on TBS and TNT. We have the greatest performers from all over the world, and I think that’s just what makes us different. I don’t think there’s any gap that we have to close. I think we just have to keep on standing out and being our own brand.” 

Learn more about Mercedes Mone’s 2022 departure from WWE here. 

Read what Mercedes says about potentially returning to WWE here. 

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