Andy Quildan: Mercedes Mone Has As Much Creative Control As Any Wrestler In Revolution Pro Wrestling

Andy Quildan talks about creative control in RevPro.

Since making her debut in All Elite Wrestling, accusations of creative control have followed Mercedes Mone quite literally around the world as she has competed in the United Kingdom, Japan, Austria and more. While the idea of her having creative control in AEW has been debunked, now another promoter has debunked the suggestion.

While speaking to Fightful’s In The Weeds with hosts Joel Pearl and Jeremy Lambert, RevPro owner Andy Quildan shut down the suggestion that Mone has a significant amount of creative control in comparison to the usual talent in RevPro.

“(laughs) It’s great isn’t it? So, Mercedes Mone has as much creative control as any wrestler in Revolution Pro Wrestling. I just find it is crazy the narrative that people create around all these wrestlers and everything. Look, quite frankly, reality is of this situation is the only reason that Mercedes Mone is in Revolution Pro Wrestling is cause she wants to be in Revolution Pro Wrestling. She doesn’t have to do anything she does not want to do, she is not contracted to be there. It’s the same as any other pro wrestler, we are an independent professional wrestling organization which means that no one who works with us is contracted, no one has to do anything that we say. Everything is a collaboration, that word again, collaboration. So we work together to create scenarios that work for everyone involved. I think that’s what makes Revolution Pro Wrestling so special because it’s not.. so obviously i have a vision,, I know what we want to get over line, it is very much a creative process. No more so, for example, if you look at WWE, they’ve got a writers room with god knows how many people in that writer’s room, basically the collaboration, instead of going to a load of people who aren’t ultimately involved with the outcome, the collaboration is between myself and the talents, so we get first hand ideas and first hand collaboration from the talent and that gives the talent a sense of ownership over what they’re doing and that just makes it all the more special for them because we all got involved in pro wrestling because we love this business, I always say this, it’s not something that anyone really gets into, you don’t go to a career’s day and they say ‘how about you get in the pro wrestling business’ that doesn’t happen right? So we all get into wrestling because we’re fans of professional wrestling so when we get the opportunity to create and use our imaginations and tap into our fandom, that’s when the most positive stuff happens and that’s why there’s such a positive energy around RevPro and what we’re doing and that’s why I genuinely believe we have one of the most fun and motivated locker room’s in the industry and I think so much of that is down to the collaboration between I guess myself and the talent and the ownership of which the talent can take over their own stuff.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Quildan teased Mone working both nights of RevPro’s Anniversary show weekend this week. You can read more about that here.