Mercedes Mone will defend the IWGP Women’s Championship against both AZM and Hazuki in a triple threat match at NJPW’s Sakura Genesis event on April 8.
Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Mone’s deal with Bushiroad is set to expire next month on the date of the STARDOM show, All Star Grand Queendom.
“Her deal with Bushiroad is up on 4/23 and a key is that she was not advertised on the 4/15 show in Washington, DC, where it would have made all the sense in the world for her to work if she was going to work more New Japan dates and she’d be the biggest draw on that show.”
Meltzer noted that Mone could return to WWE as the door is open for that if she gives up what she had asked for when they were in talks on a new deal before she departed. He wrote,
“We were told there were points that she has asked for that she would have to give up asking for to sign a deal with them but the door is open for her otherwise.”
