Top AEW Star Interested In Backstage Role After In-Ring Career Is Over

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A top AEW star has revealed that they’re interested in transitioning into a backstage role once their in-ring career is over.

Next month will see Mercedes Mone celebrate the end of her first year in AEW, having debuted at AEW Big Business on March 13, 2024.

Since her debut Mone has remained undefeated on AEW programming, capturing not only the AEW TBS Championship but also the NJPW STRONG Women’s Title and RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Title, all of which she currently still holds.

While Mone’s success shows no signs of slowing, the 33-year-old star did address her retirement plans while speaking with her ‘The Mandalorian’ co-star Katee Sackhoff on The Sackhoff Show.

Mone admitted that the thought of retiring “scares” her and she’s not looking to put a timeframe on the decision right now:

“That scares me, I don’t want to think about the word ‘retirement.’ But I do think about slowing down, because I’ve been doing it for so long, and aches and pains start to catch up and different dreams start to happen.

“Life starts to grow and I just have so many more dreams that I want to go pursue, and chase, and go accomplish while I still can being young and feeling good and having my body feel good.

“I don’t want to put a timeframe of when that exact moment I will slow down, but I know sooner than later I definitely want to take more time to pursue other things and just really set that place of — What am I going to do when I’m done wrestling? What’s going to bring me the most joy? What is still my passion?”

Mone would then express her desire to remain in pro wrestling even after she hangs up her boots, specifically mentioning taking up a role as a backstage producer or coach:

“And I still love this business so much. So I always want to be a part of it, whether that’s being a producer or coach, which is putting the matches together and creating something. Or just always being involved with that.

“I really enjoy the process of creating and forming matches. And I feel like I’m really good at that, especially for a woman. So I feel like, for when I’m done with wrestling, that’s an aspect or an avenue that I want to go into. But right now I’m just on this journey of making women’s wrestling global.”

Sackhoff would later ask Mone to name one thing she wishes fans knew about her, to which Mone replied:

“I don’t know if people ever know how much I love wrestling,” she said. “I give it everything. It’s my whole life, it’s my world. I just want fans to know, it’s like legit my everything.

“It’s why I’m here, to really make a difference in this sport — especially for women. But I just wish fans would know how much I love wrestling and how much passion I have for this.”

Mone was last seen competing at AEW Grand Slam Australia, where she successfully defended her TBS Championship against Harley Cameron.

Her next scheduled TBS Title defence is set for AEW Revolution on March 9, where she faces off with STARDOM’s Momo Watanabe.

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