The CEOMercedes Mone

Mercedes Mone won the AEW Women's World Championship on August 30, 2026, submitting Willow Nightingale with the Statement Maker in the co-main event of All In: London at Wembley Stadium, and it is the first time in her AEW run that she has held the belt that actually sits at the top of the company. 1championship held as of August 31, 2026 — the AEW Women’s World title, and nothing elseThat sentence needs the second half: she holds exactly one championship today. The wrestler who spent 2025 setting a record by holding thirteen belts simultaneously arrived at All In with none at all, and the story of how the collection was built, why it collapsed, and what replaced it is the real shape of the last two years of her career.

She was born Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado on January 26, 1992 in Fairfield, California, and debuted in 2010 for Chaotic Wrestling in Massachusetts as Mercedes KV. WWE signed her in August 2012 and made her Sasha Banks, The Boss: an NXT Women's Championship won in the four-way at TakeOver: Rival in February 2015, the Brooklyn and Iron Man classics with Bayley that made the women's revolution undeniable, four Raw Women's Championship reigns, the first women's Hell in a Cell match and the first women's main event of a WWE pay-per-view in 2016, the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with Bayley in 2019, and the WrestleMania 37 main event against Bianca Belair — the first WrestleMania main event between two Black women. 2022the year she and Naomi walked out of Raw as tag champions — she never wrestled for WWE againOn May 16, 2022, she and Naomi — the reigning Women's Tag Team Champions — walked out of Raw over a creative dispute. She never wrestled for WWE again, resurfacing at Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4, 2023 as Mercedes Mone and beating KAIRI for the IWGP Women's Championship in San Jose that February.

The AEW chapter has been a long setup with a one-night payoff. 584days as TBS Champion, from Double or Nothing 2024 to the New Year’s Eve Dynamite — the longest reign in the title’s historyShe debuted at Big Business in Boston in March 2024, beat Willow Nightingale for the TBS Championship at Double or Nothing that May, and spent 2025 collecting belts on five countries' worth of independent shows while losing the only match that mattered — the All In: Texas challenge to Toni Storm on July 12, 2025. In 2026 the arc inverted: every belt gone by April, then a second straight Owen Hart Cup at Forbidden Door on June 28 — the first wrestler to win it twice — and then Wembley, where she and Nightingale ended their series at 2-2, Mone bleeding from the nose and Nightingale passing out in the hold rather than tapping. She is champion for the first morning of her reign as this page is compiled, with a Willow rematch the obvious first defense and nothing yet announced.

Seventeen documented bouts — a curated highlight set, not a career count, and no career win–loss total is published because none was verified. The WWE years are listed under the Sasha Banks name she worked them under; the row dates are day-precise and each is carried by at least one source opened for this build. One counting caution runs through everything here: the famous “13 championships” is a simultaneous-holdings record as the trackers scored it — the Owen Hart Cup's ceremonial belt included — not a count of title reigns. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.

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Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed

Four bouts the reputation rests on. The ratings are this dossier's own editorial grades, not Wrestling Observer figures — no Meltzer ratings were verified in this pass and none are quoted.

Championships across five companies and three continents, listed by lineage. The 2025 independent collection is grouped in one row because that is how it lived and died: won in a rush across the year, gone in another rush between December 2025 and April 2026. As of August 31, 2026 she holds exactly one belt, and it is the top one.

One press label that was never a stable, two booked WWE units, and an AEW entourage.

Three names in sixteen years, and the third one she built herself — Mercedes KV (2010–12) → Sasha Banks (2012–22) → Mercedes Mone (2023–present).

Fairfield to Wembley, with a record-setting detour through every belt she could reach.

Who she went to war with.

Beyond the ring.

The records, stated with their counting rules attached — because almost every number attached to her name depends on what you count.

Two absences are deliberate. No career win-loss total appears anywhere on this page — Cagematch was not consulted and no verified aggregate exists in the sources opened for this build. And no Wrestling Observer star ratings are quoted: the signature-match grades above are this dossier's own.

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