Mercedes Mone wins TBS title at Double or Nothing in AEW debut match

Mercedes Mone is the new TBS Champion.

Mone defeated Willow Nightingale at Sunday’s AEW Double or Nothing pay-per-view in Las Vegas in her in-ring debut for the promotion, winning the TBS Championship.

In her first match in over a year, Mone pinned Nightingale after hitting her Mone Maker finisher to capture the TBS title in her first AEW contest.

Earlier in the bout, Nightingale had Mone pinned after a doctor bomb, but Nightingale’s seconds Kris Statlander and Stokely Hathaway distracted the referee, buying Mone extra seconds to kick out.

The distraction from Statlander and Hathaway played into the post-match, as Hathaway berated Nightingale for losing the bout. Statlander shoved Hathaway down, then teased leaving with Nightingale. As Nightingale and Statlander made their way to the ramp, Statlander completed her turn on Nightingale by laying out the former TBS Champion with a discus lariat, then posing with Hathaway.

For Mone, the match marks her return to the ring after suffering a career-threatening ankle injury in an NJPW bout against Nightingale on May 21, 2023.

Mone made her first AEW appearance at Dynamite: Big Business in March, with the company announcing her signing and unveiling the free agent in her hometown of Boston.

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