AEW's Thunder Rosa Recalls Attending WWE Pay-Per-View That Changed Her Life
Former AEW Women's Champion Thunder Rosa reveals the WWE pay-per-view event experience that changed her life and cemented her love for wrestling.
Thunder Rosa holding a microphone - Timothy Norris/Getty Images While professional wrestling is a staple of Thunder Rosa's life now, it was once almost nonexistent. Speaking on " REAL 92. 3 LA ," the former AEW Women's Champion noted that wrestling, aside from recognizing lucha legend Rey Mysterio, didn't enter her life until her 20s.
And it wasn't until WWE WrestleMania 25 in 2009 that the industry truly hooked her. "I didn't start watching wrestling until I was in my 20s," Rosa said. " I remember bringing people to my house to watch some of the pay-per-views.
Then I watched TNA. The Knockouts division at the time was hot and I was like 'These ladies can go! ' What I used to watch on WWE, it was not of my interest.
I remember watching some of the bra and panties [matches] and my friend was like '[Thunder], don't ever do that. ' We watched really bad women's wrestling, but it was what it was at the time. "...