There’s plenty of history between AEW Women’s World Champion Athena, Diamante, and Mercedes Martinez; after all Athena is the woman who ended Mercedes’ championship reign at FINAL BATTLE 2022 nearly 315 days ago. Since that time, part of it spent healing up nagging injuries and questioning her future in wrestling, […]
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AllEliteWrestling.com AEW Collision August 12th 2023 Preview
Perhaps Diamante took to heart the words Athena shared with her after their ROH World Championship fight, telling her fallen foe that she has what it takes, but she’s missing something, and needed to step it up to reach championship level. It certainly seems likely given that, just two days […]
AllEliteWrestling.com AEW Collision August 5th 2023 Preview
Clearly Mercedes Martinez, a former ROH Women’s World Champion, was not content with sitting back and waiting for a championship opportunity to be offered to her. All it took was one match on COLLISION, a victory over Kiera Hogan, for Mercedes to let her intentions for Kris Statlander’s TBS Championship […]
AllEliteWrestling.com AEW Rampage June 9th 2023 Preview
What an intriguing bout this will be for Friday night’s main event as four women battle it out to earn a shot at Toni Storm’s AEW Women’s World Championship next Wednesday in Washington D.C.! In Dr. Britt Baker and Nyla Rose we’ve got two former champions, the latter one who […]
ROH on HonorClub May 18th 2023 Preview
A former ROH Women’s World Champion, Mercedes Martinez has been out of action since FINAL BATTLE 2022 when Athena ended Martinez’s championship run after 220 days (253 factoring in her Interim Title period). As the longest reigning champ in the brief history of the title, Mercedes racked up five defenses […]
AllEliteWrestling.com AEW Dynamite February 16th 2022 Preview
Mercedes Martinez returned to the AEW scene in devastating fashion when she directly cost Thunder Rosa her Semi-Final match in the TBS Title Tournament. In the moment, given that it was Jade Cargill who benefited from the attack, the logical assumption was that “Smart” Mark Sterling orchestrated the entire thing […]
AllEliteWrestling.com AEW Rampage February 4th 2022 Preview
Thunder Rosa should have been part of the TBS Title Tournament Finals, or at the very least, she should have received an even chance at making that happen. When she faced Jade Cargill in the Semi-Finals at Dynamite: New Year’s Bash, it certainly felt like the momentum was swinging La […]
IMPACT Wrestling January 6th 2022 Preview
Before Deonna Purrazzo challenges Mickie James in what will certainly be a violent Texas Death Match for the Knockouts World Title at Hard To Kill, she must first get through the winner of the 2021 Knockouts Knockdown Tournament, Mercedes Martinez, this Thursday on IMPACT. Following a war of words between two of the planet’s most accomplished […]
Mickie James to Defend Knockout’s World Championship Against Deonna Purrazzo at IMPACT Wrestling’s Hard to Kill PPV
On January 8th at Hard To Kill LIVE on pay-per-view from Dallas, Texas, the next chapter in perhaps the most intense rivalry in Knockouts history will be written. After Mickie James dethroned Deonna Purrazzo to become the new Knockouts World Champion at Bound For Glory, “The Virtuosa” was noticeably absent from IMPACT Wrestling. Weeks later in […]
IMPACT Wrestling Turning Point November 21st 2021 Preview
At Bound For Glory, Mickie James did what many thought was impossible – she dethroned Deonna Purrazzo to become the new Knockouts World Champion. As a pillar of the Knockouts division, Mickie set out to defend her title against any and all challengers. Her first successful title defense came less than two weeks later […]