Below are a couple of top WWE & AEW news stories of the day, involving Mark Henry and Mercedes Mone.
• During an appearance on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, Mark Henry talked about today’s wrestlers and what he doesn’t like about them.
Here’s what Henry said:
“I watch it and it hurts. The number one thing that people don’t do in wrestling is the struggle. I was taught the struggle in wrestling. I know what’s going to happen with most matches because they don’t disguise it, they don’t allow you to go into a blind belief, a suspended belief to where you don’t see it.
I should be able to pick up every human in the ring but there’s a time when you’re not supposed to. So now I got to, you know, go punch at somebody and hit the pole and now my hand hurt and I now I try to pick him, I can’t pick him up; it’s the storytelling of where you go in match.”
Henry’s AEW contract is set to expire soon.
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• Mercedes Mone fka Sasha Banks will have his first match in All Elite Wrestling this Sunday at the AEW Double Or Nothing 2024 PPV, where she’ll face Willow Nightingale for the TBS Women’s Championship.
During an interview with The Ringer, Mone said the following about her CEO character:
“They haven’t really got to see the CEO. They know who Sasha Banks is, but the CEO, Mercedes Mone, is something they’ve never seen before, and I’m ready to show them. I’m the greatest women’s wrestler of all time, 100 percent.”
Also during this interview, Mercedes said the following about leaving WWE in 2022:
“I don’t like being handcuffed. The only place to grow is with change, and I needed that change.”
