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AEW Women’s World Championship
TBS Champion Mercedes Moné versus Kris Statlander (c)
When Hangman Adam Page won the AEW Men’s World Championship, people thought he’d start off with some easy contenders in the midcard or upper midcard. He instead had to face Bryan Danielson twice. To face the best in the world like that so quickly was an incredible challenge for him, so much in that he didn’t beat him on the first try. Instead it was a draw. He would defeat him on the second attempt, without having to go 60 minutes.
Kris Statlander is having a similar test. Her first two contenders just so happen to be the very best women in AEW history: Timeless Toni Storm and Mercedes Moné. She defeated Storm in the one on one rematch. Now she has the Best Collector.
Moné hasn’t been doing too much defending of the TBS Championship which is a little disappointing. I really hoped that title could be the women’s version of the TNT Championship and be a fighting championship. That isn’t to say Mercedes takes it easy. In fact, she spreads herself too thin in her conquests to win every championship she sees. She should have been preparing for her match with Kris Statlander at Collision on Wednesday. Instead she was defeating Red Velvet to become the undisputed ROH Women’s Television Champion.
Moné officially holds 12 championships around the world, though she carries the Owen Hart Foundation title like it’s a defended championship. A lot of people yell at her for this and say it isn’t legitimate. These people are, oh, what’s the scientific term? Ah yes: worked. The Owen counts for Moné so call it 13.
But the one championship she doesn’t hold? She would likely trade all of her gold for. She wants to be AEW Women’s World Champion. That’s the most important belt to her in the world. And yet she cannot have it. She tried against Timeless Toni Storm and it was her first official loss in the company. Her other losses were attempting to become AEW Women’s World Tag Team Champion with Athena, as well as a tag team match against Riho and Alex Windsor and against Julia Hart and Statlander. Tag team wrestling hasn’t been kind to her. Doesn’t really matter.
Statlander is going up against a behemoth, a titan of the sport, and it’s going to take her very best performance to defeat her. When Statlander faced Moné two other times she lost. The first of those two losses was actually at Full Gear 2024. This is actually a rematch from last year with a different title on the line.
Statlander needs to prove that being AEW Women’s World Champion is a different level of pressure, a different level of fire, and she has to be able to prove she can handle that fire. Otherwise Mercedes Moné is just going to roll over her again. If Blood and Guts proved anything? It’s that the heel women in the company aren’t here to play carnival games. This isn’t AEW’s original women’s division which Statlander stood out early in and got a title shot at Revolution 2020. This is a new breed, led by the likes of Moné and Storm.
Kris Statlander needs to prove not just that she’s capable of being at their level? She needs to prove she’s better. She did against Toni. Now it’s Mercedes. Otherwise? Mercedes is going to reach a level of greatness she may never be stopped from.
