If NJPW hosts a Resurgence event in 2026, perhaps it’s best for Mercedes Moné not to wrestle at it, as she doesn’t have the best luck at the event. Two years after breaking her ankle into a million pieces, and just under a year after dethroning Stephanie Vaquer to win the NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship, Moné was riding high as a triple champion, holding the AEW TBS Championship and RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship as well as her NJPW gold. She had just reached the finals of the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, and it seemed no one could stop her. That was until NJPW decided to book her in one of those pesky three-way matches.

Moné had to contend with Mina Shirakawa, the woman she actually beat for the RevPro title at Wrestle Dynasty in January 2025, and AZM, whom Moné had crossed paths in NJPW two years earlier. Much like the WrestleMania 32 Triple Threat, many people expected Moné to pick up the victory as she was not only on the best run of her entire career at the time, but these were two women whom she had already beaten in recent years. However, it was her two opponents who ended up costing Moné one of her three titles as she was thrown to the outside and had to sit by and watch AZM roll up Shirakawa for the victory, a loss Moné ended up blaming the referee for.

Many thought Moné would hold the title until the Forbidden Door pay-per-view in August 2025, but AZM had other ideas, shockingly ending Moné’s reign as champion at 313 days, the longest in the title’s short history, and a reign that is longer than all six of her WWE Women’s Championship reigns put together.