A former AEW Women’s Champion has a lot of praise for Mercedes Mone both before her arrival in the promotion and ever since.

At the Big Business special back in March, The CEO confirmed what many had suspected as she officially became All Elite in her hometown of Boston.

From there, Mone found championship success twice as she defeated Willow Nightingale at Double or Nothing to become the new TBS Champion followed by a victory over Stephanie Vaquer to win the NJPW Strong Women’s Championship.

After being interrupted by Britt Baker at Forbidden Door, Mone put the TBS title on the line against the former Women’s Champion inside Wembley Stadium at All In.

Speaking with Scott Fishman of TV Insider about Mone’s arrival and getting to work with The CEO, Baker was thankful that she got to have her dream match:

Mercedes is absolutely one of my role models. Someone I always dreamed of wrestling in the ring. I can’t lie. My experience working with her was awesome. She was so cool to me. She always treated me like her equal. Mercedes is iconic. She has done it all, wrestled everywhere. Her WWE matches I will study until the end of time. Ones I will always show to people getting into wrestling.

The Bayley and Sasha Banks (Mercedes) TakeOver match, at one point I think I memorized the match from start to finish. I look at it as I got to share the ring with one of my idols. I hope it’s not the last time either. I’m thankful for the experience because a lot of people don’t get those opportunities. You get asked what your dream match all the time, but do you ever get to have it? A lot of people can’t say they have.

Upon arriving to AEW, Mone teased working with Grammy Award-winning star Megan Thee Stallion in the near future. However, as Stallion now provides the theme song for SmackDown, the collaboration looks to be not happening. While that match is on pause, Mercedes Mone stated in another interview that she would love to face another music megastar and would even drop the title to them.