Thunder Rosa Weighs In On Rise Of Women’s Wrestling, How to Even the Playing Field

Thunder Rosa says she’s happy with the rise of women’s wrestling, but still sees things to be done to even the playing field. Women’s wrestling has been a increased focus in major companies for several years now including in both WWE and AEW, with Rosa being a major part of the latter’s division.

The former AEW Women’s World Champion spoke with Houston Life and was asked about women’s talent getting new levels of star power. She noted that there’s still room to grow before equality comes into play and advocated for more chances they can prove that they can sell tickets and bring people in. She added that it’s not just a thing in wrestling, but in all walks of life. You can see highlights below:

On Increased Visibility Toward Women’s Wrestling:

“It is incredible, but there’s still a lot of challenges that come with that. I think the environment has changed very suddenly from last year to this year in terms of like, equality in pay and everything. And everywhere you go, women have the same issues.”

On What Needs to Change To Level the Playing Field:

“I think just in general in sports, people need to understand that [women] are able to sell tickets, that we’re able to put people in seats. I mean, the WNBA is a perfect example of that. Women’s wrestling has been going strong for a while, and I feel like a lot of the very strong matches have been the women’s matches on the PPVs. So I know we can do that if we’re given the opportunity, and the time too, on television.

“It’s so competitive for women to be on TV, because there’s only certain spots that we can be in. But I think that — for example, in AEW what we were able to accomplish a couple years ago and even now with some of the matches. Because they’ve been pretty intense — I don’t want to use another [word for it], a little brutal too. But it’s like, women are able to show that we can just go as hard and we can be as good as the guys. So we just need that little [tiny bit].”

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