Mercedes Varnado

Mercedes Justine KaestnerVarnado is an American professional wrestler and actress who has been signed to All Elite Wrestling AEW since January 2024 where she performs under the ring name Mercedes Moné held the AEW Womens World Championship the AEW TBS Championship and won the Owen Hart Foundation Womens Tournament in 2025 and 2026 She competed in New Japan ProWrestling NJPW and its sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom winning the Strong Womens Championship and the IWGP Womens Championship and in Revolution Pro Wrestling RevPro where she captured the Undisputed British Womens Championship She is the first and only woman to win championships in WWE AEW and NJPW and on October 10 2025 tied Último Guerreros record by holding ten titles simultaneously after winning the Bodyslam Womens Championship Eight days later she broke the record by winning the interim ROH Womens World Television Championship captured her twelfth title the following day by winning the WPW Rumble in the Burt Womens Championship and on November 15 2025 won the HOG Heavyweight Title to become the only wrestler in history to hold thirteen titles at once Varnado previously rose to prominence in World Wrestling Entertainment WWE from 2012 to 2022 under the ring name Sasha Banks becoming one of the most decorated womens wrestlers of her era after winning the NXT Womens Championship the WWE Womens Championship five times the WWE Womens Tag Team Championship three times and the WWE Womens World Championship During her WWE run Pro Wrestling Illustrated named her Woman of the Year in 2015 awarded Match of the Year in 2015 against Bayley Feud of the Year in 2016 against Charlotte Flair and 2020 against Bayley Tag Team of the Year in 2020 with Bayley and ranked the duo No 3 in the PWI Tag Team 50 in 2020 In AEW she was named Woman of the Year in 2025 and ranked No 1 in the PWI Womens 250 that same year