Jamie Hayter is ready to prove that she never lost it while elevating herself to the level of Willow Nightingale and Toni Storm.
Jamie Hayter will face Mercedes Mone in the Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament finals at AEW Double or Nothing 2025. During a recent discussion with Cameron Hawkins of Yahoo! Sports' Uncrowned, she explained that she's viewing this as the first major thing she's done since returning to AEW nearly a year ago at AEW All In 2024.
"I'm not going to lie," Hayter says. "I think I have more at stake than Mercedes does. I haven't really done anything [since I came back]. This is the first thing I've done of note, and I've been back since August 2024. Hey, that's just how it goes. But this is my opportunity to really show people, maybe I look a little bit different or whatever, but I'm still the same person in the ring. I'm still aggressive. I can still go."
She also says that she's seen her peers elevate to another level in All Elite Wrestling and she wants to prove that she's still on that Elite level as well.
"That fire gets lit in you and you're like, ‘No, I think I'm starting to believe in myself more again,’" Hayter continues. "I want to show people that I never left, and I can go, and I can be at that level that so many women have gotten to that level. Toni Storm, Willow [Nightingale], and Kris Statlander — all these girls have been smashing it since I've been gone as well. They're really at the top of our division. I want to join them.”
So, what is at stake for her on Sunday, May 25? She says there are multiple ways to add to her legacy while honoring that of Owen Hart and giving Mercedes Mone her first blemish on her AEW record.
“Winning the Owen Hart Cup would be great because it's a fantastic tournament," she says. "It honors Owen Hart. It's great for honoring his legacy. It also will give Mercedes Moné her first loss in AEW, which, I think that'd be pretty cool. I think that's a little brownie point for me. Then going to All In, potentially facing Toni Storm, I think that would be interesting because we haven't stepped in the ring together for quite some time. She beat me the first time for the belt, then I beat her, then she beat me again. I almost feel like I could do it — I really could go all the way.”
Check out the full card here. Fightful will have coverage of the event on May 25.
