Moné Retains Against Thekla as Persephone Keeps TBS Title

Mercedes Moné was not at full strength on Saturday night in Orlando, Florida, and she still found a way past Thekla. Fighting with the nose she broke in the match that made her champion, Moné retained the AEW Women's World Championship at Addition Financial Arena, catching Thekla with the Moné Maker for her second successful defense of the title.

Moné came out in a protective face mask, and Thekla went straight for the injury. She slammed Moné's head into the apron, drove her into the barricade and kept the champion on the defensive for long stretches. Moné answered with a sunset flip bomb and her meteora, but Thekla's spider suplex and spear swung the match back, and a curb stomp nearly ended the reign. In the closing stretch Moné tore off the mask and struck Thekla with it behind the referee's back. Thekla still countered the first Moné Maker attempt into a near fall before the second one landed.