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Double or Nothing 2025
Owen Hart Women’s Tournament Final
Mercedes Moné versus Jamie Hayter
The thought on a lot of people’s minds is that if All Elite Wrestling was to do a main event featuring the women the biggest match they could put up would be Mercedes Moné as TBS Champion facing Timeless Toni Storm as AEW Women’s World Champion.
I don’t disagree. If you book that match, you have to make it the main event. There’s nothing really the men have that can compare to it. Even if Will Ospreay or Hangman Adam Page is toppling the Death Riders, putting that match ahead of the two biggest draws of the women’s division would be an insult to them. Except, you know, that’s been the most important story in AEW since September.
So people have to come to a conclusion in their mind. Is Jon Moxley losing the title or is Mercedes Moné facing Timeless Toni Storm? You can’t have both. It makes sense to have Moxley retain if he’s not in the main event.
That will be the question going into this Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament final, which by the way has been one of the best single elimination tournaments AEW has held in its history. On one side you have Jamie Hayter, former AEW Women’s World Champion who hasn’t really been back on track since returning at All In London 2024, beating Billie Starkz and Kris Statlander to get to the final. On the other side you have Mercedes Moné defeating Julia Hart and Athena.
The match against Athena was interesting because all year I’ve felt if you booked Mercedes in something it would be against Athena. It would be the best way to get Athena to the AEW roster full time and have her get the hometown pop from the Texas crowd. Moné beat Athena and that was it. Athena didn’t do anything else on the main roster, which was a bit of a mystery.
Maybe it’s because I built it all in my head, but the rematch of that is something I want to see almost as much as I want to see Timeless Toni Storm and Mercedes finally go head to head. I think that’s a match you can do down the road and it can still main event an AEW pay per view. Mercedes still being the TBS Champion complicates it a bit for me. I know she’s worked as a bit of a belt collector and is sad about losing the NJPW Strong Women’s Championship, but I would rather see a hungry ruthless Mercedes Moné go crosshairs on Timeless Toni Storm instead of an untouchable unbeatable Moné.
That brings us back to Jamie Hayter, who has had a colourful history in AEW specifically against Toni Storm. Jamie Hayter lost to Toni Storm in the 2022 Owen Hart Foundation tournament in the quarterfinals. Jamie hasn’t been in another Owen Hart Foundation tournament until now. Toni won the championship in a four way when the title was vacant at All Out 2022, only for Jamie Hayter to beat Toni Storm at Full Gear 2022 for the championship. A half year later it would be Toni Storm beating Jamie Hayter for the AEW Women’s World Championship at Double or Nothing 2023.
When these two women fight it’s always on the biggest possible stage, and it makes me wonder if that’s the plan here. You could have Athena cost Mercedes the match and still book Athena versus Mercedes Moné, and you can have the major battle between Jamie Hayter and Timeless Toni Storm, two women who look very much like they are from different eras. That ensures two major women’s matches at Y’All In Texas instead of one.
It could also be AEW just going right to the biggest possible match they could book instead of the matches that would have the best potential stories, and that’s right to Mercedes Moné winning the Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament and going up champion versus champion against Timeless Toni Storm. Should that happen? It should be in the main event. If it’s in the main event? Sorry boys. No glory for you that night.
