Mercedes Martinez recently spoke with NBC Sports Boston for an interview promoting the ROH Death Before Dishonor 2022 pay-per-view this coming weekend.
During the discussion, the ROH Women's Champion spoke about her scheduled title defense against Serena Deeb at Saturday's special event, as well as how the show in general will serve as a "rebirth" for Ring Of Honor as a pro wrestling promotion.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where she touches on these topics with her thoughts.
On how ROH Death Before Dishonor 2022 will serve as a rebirth for Ring Of Honor as a pro wrestling promotion: “It’s like a rebirth, if you think about it. It really is. Going back from the old days of Ring of Honor to what the potential of what this new Ring of Honor can bring, it’s something exciting. It’s something that I’m glad to have the opportunity to build the women’s division under me and mold what the division can be. But man, if you’re looking at me and Serena, me and Serena have battled and had our feuds, but this is going to bring a new era of women’s wrestling. You’re looking at, not high-flying because we definitely don’t high-fly, right. We’re technical, we’re submissions, and we’re athletes, and we’re wrestlers, and that’s what Ring of Honor really encompasses is wrestling, pure wrestling in its form.”
On her scheduled title match against Serena Deeb: “You’re looking at chain wrestling and submissions, anything technical, and of course you’re looking at the power sense of it and those big moments that you wanna take, but I think for me and Serena, we’re taking this very seriously. We’re going in there, showing the world what women wrestlers, and we put that emphasis on the wrestling because that’s what this is all about. It’s, can the mainstream handle two actual wrestlers and putting on a wrestling clinic, and still entertaining because you still have to mix in the sports entertainment. So it’s a rebirth for her, it’s a rebirth for me, and bringing a new level of what the women’s division can bring going forward. So this is just a building block of what we can do for the women’s division here in Ring of Honor.”
Check out the complete interview at YouTube.com. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
