AEW star Thunder Rosa hasn’t had a lot luck on the subject of staying bodily wholesome, as she suffered a concussion this previous August and beforehand was out of motion for 16 months with a extreme again damage. All through 2024, Rosa has continued to largely wrestle on “AEW Collision,” the place she’s had the chance to feud with Deonna Purrazzo and ultimately step within the ring with Harley Cameron following her concussion. In a current interview with Denise Salcedo, Rosa mirrored on her return to the ring, explaining how she’s been in a position to reinvent herself, and is concentrated on sustaining an essential function in AEW’s girls’s division.
“It has been a rediscovery as an expert wrestler additionally as an individual, as Melissa Cervantes, of what’s essential for me. What I wish to go away as a legacy after I am executed wrestling, and in addition my function within the girls’s division and AEW and undoubtedly working Saturday’s has allowed me to essentially reinvent, attempt new stuff and in addition to achieve out to all people that works on ROH and ‘Collision’ and simply create this actually robust bonds with quite a lot of the ladies within the again … I wish to thank Deonna Purrazzo for actually bringing that fireside again from babyface Thunder Rosa, she was actually essential for me this 12 months for me to change into who I grew to become, after which she challenged me loads by way of turning into a greater babyface.”
Rosa continued by expressing her admiration for different feminine expertise on the AEW roster akin to Taya Valkyrie, whereas additionally stating that if the ladies’s division is booked appropriately, they typically create magic and have the flexibility to showcase their energy.
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