A new report has provided an update on Mercedes Mone’s injury and her NJPW Resurgence title match.
At NJPW Resurgence, Willow Nightingale defeated Mercedes Mone to become the first NJPW STRONG Women’s Champion. During the bout, Mone suffered an ankle injury before the finish.
Fightful Select (subscription required) has provided an update, noting that Mercedes Mone was slated to win the title prior to her injury at Resurgence.
The report notes that Mone herself called for the end of the match and called an audible on the finish when she realized something went wrong physically, at that time only known to be a leg/foot injury.
Also, the NJPW STRONG Women’s Champion was created with Mercedes in mind.
New Japan Pro Wrestling is under the impression that the injury to Mone was a severe sprain without a break, but those close to Mercedes have said that there’s definitely a sprain and the fear of a break.
There was too much swelling at the time of the injury to know for sure, and they are hoping to have a clearer picture of what the injury is when the swelling goes down.
As previously reported, Mercedes Mone was called out by a top AEW star during the Double Or Nothing media scrum following the pay-per-view.
Full results from AEW Double Or Nothing 2023 were as follows:
HOOK, Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy def. Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn & Ethan Page
International Championship Blackjack Battle Royal – Orange Cassidy (c) def. 20 others, last eliminating Swerve Strickland
Unsanctioned Match – Adam Cole def. Chris Jericho
AEW World Tag Team Championship (Special Guest Referee Mark Briscoe) – FTR (c) def. Jay Lethal & Jeff Jarrett
TNT Championship Ladder Match – Wardlow (c) def. Christian Cage
AEW Women’s World Championship – Toni Storm def. Jamie Hayter (c)
AEW World Trios Championship Open House Rules Match – Brody King, Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black (c) def. The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn
TBS Championship – Jade Cargill (c) def. Taya Valkyrie
TBS Championship – Kris Statlander def. Jade Cargill (c)
AEW World Championship – MJF (c) def. Darby Allin, Jack Perry, Sammy Guevara
Anarchy in the Arena – Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta def. Adam Page, Kenny Omega & Young Bucks thanks to interference from Konosuke Takeshita w/Don Callis
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