AEW: Swerve Strickland & Prince Nama Promo Segment Set for 2/26 AEW Dynamite Show, Mercedes Mone on Her Current Plans for Post In-Ring Wrestling Career, More News

Feb 26, 2025

AEW CEO Tony Khan announced one new segment for the card of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Frontwave Arena in San Diego, California.

This new segment announced was a promo segment featuring Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana.

TOMORROW NIGHT
Early West Coast Start:
8pm ET/5pm PT on TBS + Max
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite

We'll hear from @swerveconfident + @PrinceKingNana!

After Nana came alone last Wednesday to try to reason with @KingRicochet, we’ll hear from both Nana + Swerve Strickland TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/tSA05JeOd7
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) February 25, 2025

Current card for February 26th AEW Dynamite show:

AEW International Championship – Orange Cassidy vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c)
Bounty match – “Bad Apple” Bryan Keith vs. Will Ospreay
Trios match – Daniel Garcia & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, & Roderick Strong)
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Harley Cameron
Hangman Adam Page vs. mystery opponent
Swerve Strickland & Prince Nana to speak
MJF to appear

Mercedes Mone Comments on Her Current Plans for Her Post In-Ring Wrestling Career

A recent episode of The Sackhoff Show podcast featured Mercedes Mone as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Mone’s thoughts about the future of her wrestling career and her interest in working as a backstage producer or coach for her post in-ring career.

“That scares me, I don’t want to think about the word ‘retirement.’ But I do think about slowing down. Because I’ve been doing it for so long, and aches and pains start to catch up and different dreams start to happen. Life starts to grow and I just have so many more dreams that I want to go pursue, and chase, and go accomplish while I still can being young and feeling good and having my body feel good. I don’t want to put a timeframe of when that exact moment I will slow down, but I know sooner than later I definitely want to take more time to pursue other things and just really set that place of — What am I going to do when I’m done wrestling? What’s going to bring me the most joy? What is still my passion?
And I still love this business so much. So I always want to be a part of it, whether that’s being a producer or coach, which is putting the matches together and creating something. Or just always being involved with that. I really enjoy the process of creating and forming matches. And I feel like I’m really good at that, especially for a woman. So I feel like, for when I’m done with wrestling, that’s an aspect or an avenue that I want to go into. But right now I’m just on this journey of making women’s wrestling global.”

Mone also gave her thoughts about her love of wrestling being the one thing she wishes fans knew the most about her.

“I don’t know if people ever know how much I love wrestling. I give it everything. It’s my whole life, it’s my world. I just want fans to know, it’s like legit my everything. It’s why I’m here, to really make a difference in this sport — especially for women. But I just wish fans would know how much I love wrestling and how much passion I have for this.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

AEW News & Notes

AEW recently released a new AEW Close-Up with Renee Paquette video featuring Harley Cameron as the guest.

AEW also recently released a new AEW Represents video focusing on Swerve Strickland’s life and wrestling career.

A recent ad for Warner Bros Discovery’s MAX featured Hangman Adam Page being shown among several sports stars for this week’s sports coverage and games on the service.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that it is currently not known if AEW ever offered an actual contract to Matt Cardona following his appearances in AEW and Ring of Honor this past December. Sapp reported that it is also currently not known if Cardona has any intentions of signing a potential deal with AEW either. Sapp also reported that despite this current situation, both Cardona and AEW officials are on good terms with each other.

As noted before, WWE ring announcer Samantha Irvin departed from the company this past October over issues related to the two sides not being able to come to terms for outside music projects and Irvin wanting to do more than just be a ring announcer in the company. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that the current belief within AEW is that Irvin is currently under a non-compete clause with WWE. Sapp reported that Irvin has been present backstage at AEW shows in support of her husband Ricochet.

TAZ recently commented on Twitter about his issues with wrestling fans comparing wrestlers in WWE and AEW against each other for their online arguments over which wrestlers and company are better. Taz stated “I know fans like to compare wrestlers in AEW & WWE the past several years. I know as fans that’s fun to do! I get that, but PLEASE realize is it’s an unfair comparison. It’s too completely different organizations, with different goals creatively. With differing visions. Guys, u r comparing DOGS & CATS! And most of you don’t even realize that.“

In a recent episode of The Snake Pit podcast, WWE Hall of Famer and co-host Jake “The Snake” Roberts gave his thoughts about how he is able to be included in WWE video games while also currently working for AEW. Roberts stated “Well, I’m special. It’s a situation where I’m going to work for AEW, and I’d like to keep my legends contract. I told AEW that I was going to try to keep it. They said, ‘Fine, do it.’ So when I went to WWE, I told them I was going to work for AEW, and they gave me their blessing. Let’s face it, they still want to make money off of me.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with BodySlam.net, Preston Vance gave his thoughts about the end of his time as a member of the La Faccion Ingobernable stable. Vance stated “I’ll be honest, I don’t even have an answer. I have no idea. RUSH doesn’t know. Yeah, that is one thing I am, I don’t want to say bitter because I’m not bitter, I think everything happens for a reason, but I’m confused on why it was so short-lived because I feel like we were getting some steam. I don’t know. Like I said, everything does happen for a reason, so I’m not mad about it, I’m not bitter about it. Just more like, ‘Hm, I don’t have the answers, and I don’t know if I’ll ever get them.’ But I’m still very thankful for that time working with him. I have kind of stole some stuff from RUSH, how he does stuff in the ring. I take everything as a learning experience.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)