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When I saw that Mercedes Mone was scheduled to fight Zeuxis at their Grand Slam Mexico<\/em> show, I knew right away that Mercedes was going to walk away with yet another blet.\u00a0 That\u2019s the problem when someone is booked so invincibly over the last two years, that after a little while, no match seems remotely debatable to what the outcome is going to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And I know that the mouth-breathing troglodytes of the internet wrestling community are always debating on whether or not Mercedes has creative control (AKA makes the call on their own wins and losses), and I really don\u2019t care enough to seek out the answer for myself, but it\u2019s also not like those who believe she does have it, doesn\u2019t have reason to believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n Typically, I love blet collector gimmicks, and as a collector of wrestling blets myself, I always appreciate seeing it done in actual industry storylines.\u00a0 I loved when Ultimo Dragon walked out of Japan with ten championship blets at the Super J-cup, I was a big fan of when Lance Storm when on a collecting spree upon arriving in WCW, winning the United States<\/span> Canadian championship, the Cruiserweight<\/span> 100 Kilos or Less championship, and the Hardcore<\/span> Saskatchewan Hardcore Invitational Title in short order.\u00a0 I loved when The Miz was holding both tag team championships at the same time as holding the United States championship, carting three blets out every show.\u00a0 Even though he turned out to be a colossal asshole, I liked the journey of Austin Aries amassing a bunch of blets, and I was a big fan of when Matt Cardona became the King of Independent Wrestling, collecting blets like he were Ultimo Dragon.<\/span><\/p>\n AEW has dipped into this well a few times already, with Kenny Omega holding three world championships concurrently (AEW, AAA, TNA), as well as when FTR had their greatest year ever, holding the ROH, AAA and IWGP tag team championships, and I did enjoy those as well, in spite of my oft-criticism of AEW as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n Which brings us to the present, where Mercedes Mone has been hoovering up blets like Thanos collecting Infinity Stones, currently carting around six straps: AEW TBS championship, RevPro Women\u2019s championship, Queen of Southside blet, the AEW Owen Hart Memorial women\u2019s blet, the EWA Women\u2019s championship, and the freshly won CMLL Women\u2019s championship.<\/span><\/p>\n Ordinarily, six blets does sound impressive, but my issue is that several of these blets are mostly useless, and (are trying to) make her look more impressive than she really is.\u00a0 In my opinion, the TBS, RevPro and CMLL straps are the only ones with any actual value, but the other three blets are basically decorations and aren\u2019t real championships:<\/span><\/p>\n In all fairness, the three that do have value, are still respectable championships, and put her on a similar tier of collector as Kenny Omega and FTR, but I just don\u2019t like the fact that she\u2019s hauling around three blets that are mostly useless with the intention of making her look more impressive than she actually is.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, AEW\/ROH missed the boat on really boosting Mercedes\u2019 odyssey by not having her go after Athena\u2019s ROH women\u2019s championship, after their actual banger of a match a few months ago in the Owen Hart tournament, but considering Athena has been champion for over 800 days, it\u2019s evident that they didn\u2019t want to job her out just for Mercedes\u2019 burgeoning ego trip, nor did they really want to cannibalize within their own ecosystem, at least not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, they\u2019re going to feed their crown jewel to Mercedes, when Timeless Toni Storm, not long removed from winning back the AEW Women\u2019s championship, will effectively become a transitional champion when she has to drop her blet to Mercedes, capping off the insane run of blet collecting.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, the real interesting story is going to be, when inevitably all the partner companies start wanting their blets back, what is going to happen with Mercedes.\u00a0 Her whole career can mostly be defined by her massive resistance when it comes to taking L\u2019s, which is undoubtedly the biggest reason why Sasha Banks left the WWE, and since she became Mercedes Mone, has almost never lost, and in fact has taken a fall just two times in the last three years, with one of them being on account of an improvised finish due to legitimate injury.<\/span><\/p>\n So it\u2019s going to be a real telling story when RevPro, CMLL want their championships back, and it\u2019s going to be an even more telling one when minor leagues like EWA wants theirs back, and Mercedes is going to be expected to not win a match in some backyard fed in Wien. \u00a0The Owen Hart strap will just magically disappear in the mass exodus, but ultimately all that\u2019s really going to matter is the AEW women\u2019s championship, which will undoubtedly be the last blet standing.<\/span><\/p>\n But still, Mercedes will be expected to do the business back to all the partners who have been helping boost her, and as history as shown us in the past, we can\u2019t be too sure on if that\u2019s going to work for her \u2013 brother.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I saw that Mercedes Mone was scheduled to fight Zeuxis at their Grand Slam Mexico show, I knew right away that Mercedes was going to walk away with yet another blet.\u00a0 That\u2019s the problem when someone is booked so invincibly over the last two years, that after a little while, no match seems remotely … Continue reading Why the Mercedes Mone blet collector gimmick isn\u2019t as impressive as it 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