Reigning AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone spoke to TV Insider and was asked about WWE's continued counter-programming against AEW PPVs with the latest developments seeing WWE run a main-roster PLE against AEW All Out next month as well as rumors that WWE would be on board in helping getting TNA a TV rights deal with one of their partners, possibly A&E or CW, where Impact would run against Dynamite.
"I don’t watch them. I don’t care about them. I’m ‘Eight Belts Mone.’ I’m a champion of so many different companies. So, the more the merrier. If they want to put on wrestling shows while we have wrestling shows, I’m always going to be better. I’m always better. That’s why I call myself ‘The CEO.’ They can keep on doing whatever they want to do, but AEW is taking over. If you want to watch the best, good wrestling, watch AEW."
Mone went onto touch on continued reports that she has creative control of her character in AEW:
"I work with whoever Tony wants me to work with. That’s why I’m ‘The CEO.’ That’s why I came here because I watched the women, and said, ‘This is the place for me to be because there is so much passion and drive.’ We legit have the greatest women’s division in all of professional wrestling. The best from Toni Storm, Athena, Kris Statlander, Willow, and I can go on and on and on. I really feel like the last year-and-a-half there has been such a shift in the energy with what we bring to AEW television. We’re getting more time, more matches and more in-depth storylines. It has been such great growth. Being a part of it has been so amazing for myself and my career."
