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Fightful<\/a>: Persephone defeats Mercedes Mone for the CMLL Women\u2019s world championship in La Noche de Las Amazones<\/span><\/p>\n And pretty much nobody is going to know about it, because CMLL is big in Mexico, but has yet to get much traction in Los Estados Unidos yet; but given the fact that this match meant Mercedes Mone had to take an L, such circumstances hardly seem surprising.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s funny because I think anyone who has followed the career of Mercedes Varnado probably saw this coming; loud, insufferable, on television every week with some rando new blet from some rando indy-tier promotion nobody has heard of, inflating her collection of titles with the obvious intention of surpassing Ultimo Dragon\u2019s ten-concurrent title reign, which wasn\u2019t hard to do, considering the majority of her titles were from barely above-backyard promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n With the loss of the CMLL title, it\u2019s safe to say that Mercedes has lost all the blets that actually held any weight, between the CMLL title, the TBS championship, as well as RevPro\u2019s women\u2019s championship, and the remainder of all the straps she\u2019s carting along are all basically a bunch of Popeyes Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n But to no surprise, whereas the rise of Mercedes was obnoxiously loud and often televised, her inevitable downfall has been anything but; rather it\u2019s been quiet, fragmented, mostly untelevised.\u00a0 No tweets from any official channels, reporting only done by outlets way more into professional wrestling than the casual viewers are, even AEW fans.<\/span><\/p>\n And speaking of AEW, I feel like the booking of Mercedes\u2019 downfall has been pretty lackluster, and I\u2019m curious to know who\u2019s been in charge of it, given the constant rumors out there of Mercedes having creative control, or if it\u2019s been Tony Khan doing the booking, but this is situation where neither should want to take credit for it, because it\u2019s been nothing short of underwhelming.<\/span><\/p>\n If it were up to me, it should have started with the loss of the TBS championship, because being a native AEW talent, their title should have been the one to be treated with the most reverence, the one most desperate to protect.\u00a0 And once she loses it, it creates somewhat of a trauma effect for her persona, to where she then begins to grow overprotective and unstable over her remaining titles, which creates a domino effect of making escalating mistakes, where she starts going on systemic losing streak where she begins dropping titles left and right, hitting bottom, and creating a perfect opportunity for Mercedes Varnado to take one of her signature sabbaticals after being unhappy with losing in a predetermined industry.<\/span><\/p>\n But instead, it was a random loss of the ROH Women\u2019s TV<\/a> title to a still-really green Red Velvet, then a loss of the RevPro women\u2019s title<\/a> to Alex Windsor which was more like a fan service move considering it was in England, and then she finally lost the TBS title<\/a> to Willow Nightengale, that kind of had almost no buildup or story built up, which brings us to the present, where she\u2019s now dropped the CMLL Women\u2019s title, which like I said, now clears the books of any of the blets she was carrying that actually had any clout.<\/span><\/p>\n At this point, it doesn\u2019t even matter what happens to the remainder of the blets, because they\u2019re all for promotions almost nobody outside of their respective regions have heard of.\u00a0 I get that the objective of letting her carry their blets was to give them exposure, but I don\u2019t really think they gained much of that in return, of the course of her blet collector gimmick, and I think it\u2019s safe to say that when she does begin returning titles back to their respective promotions, the L\u2019s she\u2019ll be taking will be horsey and convoluted, because how are people supposed to believe that these low-tier indy talents can upend a global star like Mercedes Mone?<\/span><\/p>\n But that\u2019s assuming that we\u2019ll hear much of these title changes in the first place, because the rise was loud and insufferable, but the fall has been low-key and quiet, and really nothing about such should be surprising considering the history of Mercedes Varnado.<\/span><\/p>\n I wonder what her $99.99 a month text service<\/a> is saying throughout the downfall?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fightful: Persephone defeats Mercedes Mone for the CMLL Women\u2019s world championship in La Noche de Las Amazones And pretty much nobody is going to know about it, because CMLL is big in Mexico, but has yet to get much traction in Los Estados Unidos yet; but given the fact that this match meant Mercedes Mone … Continue reading Unsurprising, given her track record<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,45,83,52,54,49],"class_list":["post-51115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51117,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51115\/revisions\/51117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}