Although in the past, Mercedes Mone has been hesitant to explain the exact reasons for why she left the company to eventually join AEW back in March, in a recent podcast interview with Kick Rocks Wrestling, the artist formerly known as Sasha Banks shed some more light on the subject.
“Something inside of me told me that I needed to go do this and stand up for myself,” Mone explained. “It was a very hard decision because wrestling in WWE has been my whole life. People don’t know, it’s been my whole life. It’s the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my whole life, but it’s the proudest. It’s crazy, because I would not be sitting here, living the best version of my life and getting to be everything I’ve ever dreamt of, and more. It makes me so excited because that moment changed my whole life for the better. I’m so thankful for that moment. I’m so proud of myself. I’m so proud of Trinity (Naomi), of just how strong we were.”
While Mone admits that the topic of her leaving WWE was a hot topic at the time it took place and fueled plenty of speculation, the fact of the matter remains that nobody who offered their opinions on the matter at the time was in the room during the occurrence and therefore there should not have been so many assumptions taking place.
“Everybody wanted to talk about it. Everybody wanted to act like they were in the room,” Mone added. “Everybody acted like they were in the room, or worked there, or were backstage, or knew what happened, or knew what was said. All I know is that I handled it like a CEO, like the boss that I am, with my head held high.”
Despite the creative differences, Mone doesn’t have anything negative to say about her experience in WWE.
“I can’t say anything but amazing things to WWE. I’m so thankful to the career they gave me, the fans they gave me, the life they gave me,” MonΓ© added. “So many dreams that I got to chase and live them all. I get to do so much more. I have a lot of unfinished business in wrestling in a lot of places.”
