WINNIPEG – The Moné train rolled through the Burton Cummings Theatre and expectedly left with even more gold.
Mercedes Moné scored yet another championship victory on Sunday night, prevailing as part of Winnipeg Pro Wrestling’s annual Rumble in the Burt card.
24 hours after she claimed the interim ROH Women’s Television Championship against Mina Shirakawa in St. Louis, and 48 hours after she defended her CMLL World Women’s Championship against Persephone in Mexico City, Moné once again added to her belt collection, earning the WPW Women’s Championship on Sunday night.
AEW’s Moné dethroned two-time champ Jody Threat in the co-main event of the night, scoring the pinfall win after a 17-minute battle.
Threat, who mainly appears as a part of the TNA roster but has made two dozen appearances for WPW over the years, put up a hard fight in an attempt to retain her belt against Moné. But, after Ava Lawless attacked her at ringside, the sequence allowed Moné to connect with her Moné Maker finisher for the pinfall win.
While Moné continues her impressive run, gaining even more belts and doing what has become the longest reign as the TBS Champion in AEW, her latest performance took place at what was a record-setting night for WPW, too.
Sunday marked WPW’s biggest turnout at the Burton Cummings Theatre, a legendary music hall in Winnipeg. Cruising past the previous record they set in the building, the promotion touted over 1,600 in attendance on Sunday night.
“Obviously, Mercedes has added a lot of prestige and excitement,” WPW co-owner Devin Bray said prior to the event. “We attracted, I’d say, a couple of hundred more people who didn’t know we existed who live here and are wrestling fans. So it just took us to a whole new level.”
Moné’s addition to the card came together “really fast,” Bray noted. The promotion had only announced her booking earlier this month after a large share of the event’s tickets had already been sold.
“I saw she tweeted a couple of months ago, ‘I want to go to Canada’ or something. I was like, f***, if she’s saying that, I’ll just shoot my shot.”
There was arguably no better opponent choice for Moné on Sunday’s card, as Threat has been one of the biggest constants in WPW’s roster since the very start. Despite hailing from Toronto, the “Wild Child’s” presence in Winnipeg has made her one of the city’s own.
“I’ve seen Jody shirts at the mall just out and about,” Bray said. “She has really become that sports figure that has claimed Winnipeg as her second home, like a lot of athletes do in hockey and football.”
The main event of the night saw WPW’s top men’s belt switch hands as well, with heel Chad Daniels overcoming Bobby Schink and then-incumbent champ James Roth in a three-way bout. An assault late in the match from fellow heel WPW vets BRAX and Nu Money—who retained their tag titles in a shock win over the Good Brothers earlier in the night—was a significant assist to Daniels in his win.
Roth had carried WPW’s top title for nearly a year, earning it at the 2024 Rumble in the Burt card against Tyler Colton.
Colton will get a shot to regain the title soon, winning the promotion’s 20-man Rumble on Sunday to guarantee a title fight in the future.
Shotzi Blackheart returned to WPW for the first time since 2019 earlier in the night, teaming alongside The Matriarch to defeat Ava Lawless and Beaa Moss.
Blackheart appeared on two of WPW’s earliest cards at the infamous Sherbrooke Inn, before her recent WWE stint.
“She was [wrestling here] when we were in dive bars,” said Bray. “I remember walking with her down Sherbrooke to get chicken at Handsome Daughter after a show. It was just our roots, and now we’re doing something completely different … It’s special to have her back for sure.”
Stealing the spotlight in the match was The Matriarch, one of the subjects in the 2024 “Death Tour” documentary, who earned the pinfall win for her team.
WPW has already booked a fourth-annual Rumble card for the Burton Cummings Theatre for October 18, 2026, calling their shot that the promotion’s momentum will only keep rolling into next fall.
