AEW Wrestler Thunder Rosa Interview – Social Work to Pro Wrestling

What’s up everybody? This is Fred Richani. We have right here via Zoom a very special guest. She is multi-talented. She is a pro wrestler. She is a commentator. She’s a former MMA fighter. She’s a promoter. We are talking to the great The Talented all elite wrestling women’s world champion, Thunder Rosa Rosa. Thank you so much for joining us. How’s everything going? Oh my God. You’re so excited to interview me that was a great interview. I’m doing great. I am Miami today. I before this interview? I had to make sure I had to go to the beach and get some sun, you know, because I’m very pale.

And it was amazing. Was there any point in your career where you said, you know, this wrestling things cool, but maybe I want to try MMA. I did at a point I think it was like, right before the pandemic started I started like really seriously training for MMA. Like I was training MMA five days, a week. But and I was getting ready for a fight my second fight because I felt that I needed to give my St more more time to train to achieve a better training camp and maybe to achieve a win for the next fight, but you know, Co happened and everything shut down and that kind of like re I had to restructure my life.

And I was like, okay, well, I’m not making any money in MMA. So, I’m gonna consider to like just, you know, pour everything I have into being a champion back then I was an NWA women’s world champion. And I just, you know, utilize a lot of the stuff that I learned in MMA. And I instead of like putting them in professional wrestling and they seem to like people seem to like really enjoy what I was doing. And my wrestling career took off and I was like, okay, I’m just gonna put MMA on the back burner and just focus on being a professional wrestler and obviously it’s worked out for you the current aw women’s world champion, and just an incredible story overall from social worker to professional wrestling a lot of people get into professional wrestling, you know, maybe in their teenage years early 20s I believe you didn’t really start training until your mid 20s then go full bow until your 30s and now here you are currently the champ and got a lot going on for you.

So, what made you kind of decide to take that leap of faith once I started figuring out the that if you do certain things. You can actually make a career at professional wrestling in a pretty decent living. I was blessed that in my first year of professional wrestling. I was able to work a TV show in a TV show col underground which like really like I was like, oh man. Like they can really pay you if you do X Y and Z. And then like also seeing the different Avenues of the revenue that you could make if you were a professional wrestler. It was just like I think it was for me.

It was like the hustle the constant. Reinventing yourself and finding new ways to like make money right now because you are considered an athlete and an artist. So as soon as I kind of like found out the key my husband. And I we decided that it was best for me to focus 100% to become in a professional athlete instead of just kind of doing part-time parttime professional athlete. And then just doing social work, which it was one of my other passions that I had. And so I always like to help people. I always like to you know, volunteer my community. And just do all things for other people and it was hard for me to make that decision because I was very close to the clients that I had at the moment, but they all understood that I was doing it because I was you know, going and working towards my dreams.

And I’m very very glad that he really pay off more than I ever thought he would it definitely has how does it feel being not only the aw women’s world champion, but also kind of being on the best run of your career. I’m sure it’s something that everybody dreams of in professional wrestling. But is everything you expected so far. I think everything and a little bit more with the title comes a lot of responsibility it comes a lot of criticism it comes a lot with expectations from people that you don’t even know they had expectations for you. But I’ve done everything that I can to be happy and to enjoy the moment because not everybody can say, they’re world champions?

And I am one of them and I am in the history books. And now as the aw women’s world champion, I can say that I’m the first one of my kind, you know, I’m the first Mexican born wrestler to be a champion in a major company and I’m, you know, I’m making the best out of it. I just came back from Tokyo actually on Monday and I went to show off my title and had a very interesting match in where the if the person won the match. She was gonna get a shot to the title here in America. So, she won now. She’s coming to America and now she’s GNA have a shot to the title and this is the first time that it’s done as a woman Champion has been done something like that in the company.

So, I was really excited. So, we’re putting back the world champion into the world championship. So I am having a lot of fun. And then now as a champion, I can be a commentator for comat the global, which I am really thankful for, you know, Tony K to work with Mr. Campbell and like and do this and see how it takes where this can take because that we can do this co co-promotional program and where people are like, oh my God. This is th Roa who’s at wrestler at aw, you can, you know, you can watch me on rampage and dynamite every with they and Friday.

So, it’s really really cool. What’s happening now I got to ask you how do you balance everything. You’re a white you’re a mother you’re an entrepreneur. You’re a promoter yourself with Mission Pro you’re of course a full-time pro wrestler. One of the world champions of aew do. How do you sleep, how do you do your thing how do you balance work in life? How do you sleep, I don’t sleep. Like I am, you know, the Sleep part is rough. It goes on wav. So like I’ve been in a tour of a 12 Day Tour and it ends on Saturday. I go home home and then I take a little break.

And then small tour and like I take I’m taking breaks in between. So I can spend time with my family. But it’s very difficult honestly, but when your career is so hot and you know that you have to strike while the iron is like steaming burning hot you have to do it like this is a moment the stage has been given to me and I’m just running with it. And I will rest pretty soon, but more and more things are lining up in the very near future and you don’t understand how excited I am and like again today. I’m like when I was riding the plane I was like, man.

I’m like, so excited to be doing something completely different than what I’ve been doing for the last you know, two years and it’s just that professional wrestling was like for me like the door for everything in life like MMA jiujitsu, mixed martial arts in many different ways to meet like wonderful people. You know now, I’m like, you know, working with combat Global as commentator and I don’t know we might be able like you were saying to bring that opportunity to other people that otherwise wouldn’t wouldn’t have it. And I apologize I left out one other job title vlogger social media manager, your presence is incredible on YouTube.

And Twitter and all social media. Do you have any help with that stuff do my media director. His name is Tony Allen I’ve been working with him since October. So that’s why you’ve seen a lot more a lot more blogs on YouTube. A lot more stuff on social media cuz he’s the one who does it. I just go do my little and then I turn it into her, he does that he’s been very very very helpful and he’s actually one of the guys that he helped me with all the communication between Campbell Mike and comat glob. So now I’m here and we’re gonna do this tomorrow and I hope everybody’s gonna be watching and Paramon plus if you got the means invest in yourself.

I 100% I think that will be for me the most important part and I and you’ve seen it with, you know, my entrances with my gear as a professional wrestler. I always have invested on myself at least on the year, you know, I’m a very downto Earth girl. I don’t like to have like long nails and like super fancy stuff. I’m not like that. I like to invest in things that people are like, oh my gosh. She has this really cool stuff like her face paint looks amazing. Her body looks this way this. It’s all part of investing in yourself. So, yeah, before we let you go, we always like to ask all our guest some kind of random and Rapid Fire questions just to get to know better.

Are you ready? Yeah. Favorite late night snack or cheat meal? Ah, Jesus, be jerky, right? Alltime favorite wrestler. Oh my God, this is so horror. Alltime favorite wrestler who’s my all time my coach Dustin roads good answer who would you say is your dream opponent get her alive. I will like to I would love to wrestle iOS, Shere she was my trainer in Japan. And I multiple times. She’s very talented, what hurt your body more the lights out match with Britt Baker or the cage match with Britt Baker. Oh, brother, I couldn’t move after the cage match. So I will say the cage match after the cage match though.

And in the first Brit match the lights out match. Did you two realize like the kind of History. You were making. Yes, I didn’t know to what extent this will become like pop culture, right? And but once aired and like the reaction of the people was really intense. So now I’m very blessed that like I said, my boss T Khan decided that will be that I should be one of the ones who should, you know, be part of this breaking history moment. So I’m really glad that happened. Who is the funniest person backstage in a honestly love Dan housing because he never breaks. So Dan how’s always just Dan Howen.

Yeah, he’s always like this are you on his good side, or did he cast a spell I give him Taco. So, I’m going to his good side. All right. Good to know what’s your most awkward moment as a professional wrestler. I some maybe when you like Miss a move and you just have to act like it was meant to be that way a couple times in different promotions and one time it happened in Mexico City. Like I was supposed to do like a hamston or a carwheel and I ate and I just like got on my knees and did a post. And I was like, oh my God and the people started boing.

It was great. Well, you know, they say in MMA in boxing, especially when somebody gets like knocked out or has a bad fight. You got have short-term memory. You can’t let that linger. So, I would assume that’s the same in pro wrestling, right? If you mess up something or something goes wrong. You just have to have short-term memory and keep going? Yes, pretty much otherwise you’re going to look like you don’t know what you’re doing. What’s your best piece of advice for success? Consistant consistency 100% if you say you’re going to do something you have to consistently do it until you get it better or until you get results.

You can give up when somebody tells you no, when things don’t go the right the way that you wanted to or when people are criticizing your body work you have to keep going, where can we find you online and where can we find you next? Well, you can find me online at Thunder Rosa 22 at all my social handles, also on YouTube and Thunder Roosa my Vlogs are in every Tuesday the taco Vlog and every Saturday that’s my traveling Vlog. You can also if you want more you want to get to know me a little bit more is thos official.com. I post a lot of stuff that are not anywhere on social media or anything and you can find me on Dynamat TVs on Wednesdays.

Bonus question. Is there anything you wish I asked you in this interview? No, that’s good. Excellent. Well, thunderosa, thank you so much for your time.