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Answers: All In vs. DON, Mariah May, Mercedes Martinez

Added 2025-05-29 16:00:04 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Has All In passed Double or Nothing as AEW’s #1 ppv?

Yes. Internally, All Elite Wrestling has viewed All In as "the" show since it came back in 2023. I can't speak to how that will continue or where it will be held. But the biggest show gets a lot of their biggest matches, draws their biggest gate, and some of the highest PPV numbers.

How does the internal AEW roster feel about Mariah May’s current status? I only ask bc a lot was invested into her and now she may be gone. I wonder if any wrestlers may feel a way since some of that time could’ve gone to wrestlers who have been there longer and are still there. Just a thought.

I've not heard anything potentially colorful about Mariah May and her current status. The most I've got out out of people was that they were surprised that she would have a two-year contract. Otherwise, the wrestlers and people in the industry that I've spoken with just see it as a business move.

Did Mercedes Martinez quietly retire from wrestling? Is Pat buck still with AEW? Feel like I haven't seen either in a good while

Mercedes is still an active wrestler. She competed at Shine recently. She's certainly been wrestling much less --- under a dozen matches in the last year. She's still under contract to All Elite Wrestling. Pat Buck is also still with the company, but he's in a backstage role.