Willow Nightingale has taken quite the beating across this watchlist so it’s only right that we close this out on a high note with a history making moment for the happiest member of the AEW roster.

Three weeks after winning the inaugural AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships with Harley Cameron, Nightingale got the chance to win back the title she only held for a few weeks in 2024, the AEW TBS Championship. Her opponent was Mercedes Mone, a woman she has known for a while and, much like the story with Athena, had faced off with “The CEO” on two previous occasions, making this the trilogy match. Nightingale won the first match back in 2023 when she beat Mone to become the first-ever NJPW STRONG Women’s Champion, but that match was overshadowed by Mone suffering a career-threatening ankle injury. The second bout saw Mone dethroned Nightingale in her in-ring debut for AEW at Double or Nothing 2024 to become the new AEW TBS Champion, but Nightingale was more focused with what Kris Statlander did after the bout. 

Between that match and this one, a lot had changed. Mone had become “Ultimo Mone” by winning 13 different belts and holding them simultaneously, but her quest to become the AEW Women’s World Champion had dented her unstoppable aura, which resulted in her losing the ROH Women’s World Television and RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championships in the span of a few weeks. To add insult to injury, she couldn’t get the job done alongside Athena of all people when trying to dethrone The Babes of Wrath for their newly won tag straps at Worlds End 2025, with Nightingale even getting the pin on “The CEO.”

All of that leads to this match which shares a lot of similarities to the Death Before Dishonor battle with Athena. The champion enters with a deranged level of determination while the challenger is very much on the attack from the opening bell. Nightingale is on the offensive to start things off but Mone is able to weather the storm and take control of the match for the first half. It’s as the match goes on you can see Mone get more and more annoyed at the fact that Nightingale just will not go down, but she is smart enough to allow Nightingale to try and escalate the action by countering a Babe With The Powerbomb on the announce table into a Suplex of her own, and moving out of the way of a rare Nightingale Moonsault.

In the end, too many slams and power moves from the challenger means that Mone can’t hit the Mone Maker, she can’t get a good grip on the Statement Maker, and Nightingale finds just enough of an opening to hit the Babe With The Powerbomb for the feel good victory. Now it’s up to AEW to book her like the top champion she has the potential of being.