There was a lot of praise internally for the Mercedes Moné vs. Stephanie Vaquer bout within AEW, specifically for Vaquer getting over so strongly with the live crowd in NYC for her work. We are told that Moné went into the bout with the express goal of “making” Vaquer and that even with Vaquer getting into town late as she didn’t arrive until the afternoon of the PPV (most were in the night before), the feeling was that they hit the goal.
The story that George Clooney sent Moné a bottle of tequila at the PPV was 100% legitimate.
Vaquer looked incredible.
I’ve always been amazed and how good Mone can make others look, whilst coming across as a bit underwhelming herself. It’s the complete opposite to 99% of wrestlers, and is so much harder to do.
Speaking of Mone, I don’t get what they’re trying to do character wise. If she’s a face then she needs to wrestle a lot more, or just do more than that heat-bait dance.
i never got babyface vibes from her; i got cocky egotistical tweener, tbh.
in d&d terms, i don’t think she’s full on chaotic; i think she’s true neutral or neutral good.
I was screaming at the tv by the end of that match “Is she supposed to be a face? I don’t get it!”
I wouldn’t consider her a face at all
Yeah, I get that, what I can’t work out is if that is because of my general dislike of CEOs 😁
If she really wanted to be a CEO she wouldn’t wrestle at all, and would claim others wins as her own
Well she is the one taking all the risk!
I agree. If they’re going for face with Moné, it’s really not working. Her whole persona screams arrogant heel.
She’s face-ish because when she came into the company there was zero chance she was gonna get boo’d. It’s like MJF, if they bring him back and immediately is a shitheel, it’s not gonna work cause that return pop will always make em a babyface.
Now that she’s been around for a month or two they’ll be transitioning her heel, especially with Britt back (which, same thing, 100% face pop when she returned so Mone’ll take the heel spot).