As we reported earlier today here on eWn, former WWE Superstar Athena (Ember Moon) faced off against Thunder Rosa at the Warrior Wrestling 19 event in Chicago, IL over the weekend. During the match, there was a heckler in the crowd who yelled for Rosa to “tear her [Athena’s] weave off.”
During a Twitch stream on Monday, Athena addressed the incident. You can check out some highlights from the stream below:
On being heckled in the past: “We have to talk about the a**hole fan. No one knows what he said, but me, and I feel some type of way about it. I don’t know if you guys could hear it. We have to talk about this crazy fan. It’s been six or seven years since I’ve been on the Indies. When I first started out, I wrestled for XCW and they called me one of the worst nicknames I’ve ever been called since I was a bad guy. They used to call me, ‘chick with a dick.’ That’s what the fans heckled me as. I was an 18-year-old and buff, way more buff because I played soccer all the time. It was weird hearing the backlash of someone making fun of me. I’ve been called everything in the book. I’m from Texas. The only thing I really have a problem with is the N-word. That was the first thing I was called and because I was 18, ‘oh, I’m over with the crowd.’ Now, probably not the best thing for people to say because the world has changed and we’ve gotten more PC and we’re more understanding of people’s feelings. This is what happened; we were in the match and someone said I had a bad weave. That’s what happened.”
On the heckler’s comments: “Apparently, there were others, there was someone else that called us ‘putas,’ or whatever. They said I had a bad weave, or at least this is what I heard. If there is something more than this, mind you, Rosa and I talked after, this is what she was complaining about. You have to come at me a lot harder for me to be upset, especially when my weave probably costs more than what you make in a week. I wasn’t really bothered or affected because I don’t care. I wasn’t offended, but I’m not the type of person to let things get to them. I worked for WWE. I’m used to being fat-shamed, called a talentless hack, every name under the sun, being called a ‘race trader’ for marrying my lovely husband. I have been called everything known to man. So you saying my hair doesn’t look good, doesn’t bother me whatsoever.”
On fans who heckle wrestlers during matches: “I don’t understand because when I went to wrestling shows, we heckled, we said ‘oh you suck’ ‘oh your pants don’t fit.’ Whatever popped our head. Is that not allowed anymore? I’d rather you be so involved, let’s not be derogatory, fat-shaming — Even if you fat-shamed I probably would’ve jumped over the barricade and been like, ‘you get in there and do it then.’ I wasn’t bothered by it. It was fun. Heckling is fun.
“At what point did it change to ‘you can’t make observatory statements?’ I didn’t feel like it crossed a line. I personally didn’t feel it because I know how hard I worked on my hair. We got to the back and the promoter of the show was like, ‘next time it happens, we’ll toss him out.’ I hope the guy didn’t get thrown out. I talked to Rosa about it. It’s such a minor no comment to me. Everyone was making such a big deal about it. I was like, ‘Wow, I have been called far worse in my personal life, not even at a show.’ Like I said, I haven’t been on the Indies in seven years, I’ve been in this WWE bubble that WWE has created where only WWE fans will reach out and say, ‘You’re fat, you need to go the gym. You’re overrated. You’re boring,’ whatever they want to say that day of the week.”
ORIGINAL: Over the weekend, AEW star Thunder Rosa faced off against former WWE Superstar Athena (Ember Moon) at a Warrior Wrestling 19 event in Chicago, IL. During the event, several fans began shouting some nasty things at Athena. At one point, one fan yelled for Rosa to “tear her weave off”. Following the match, Rosa grabbed a microphone and said the following,
“I wanna tell everybody that was talking sh*t about what we do today, here, have some respect for the women that are putting their lives in danger here! To the idiot that was saying bad stuff about us, you have no right to talk about us like that we are just like one of the boys in the back. If you come to a show and you’re being disrespectful to the athletes, you have no right to be here.”
You can check out a video of Rosa’s shoot promo following the match below:
It wasn't a chant. A dude yelled "Tear her weave off" to Athena, and the crowd booed the guy. Even chanting "Fuck that guy!"
— Turd Ferguson (@jrock0923) February 13, 2022
Thunder Rosa calling out some of the crowd that were disrespectful during the womens matches! pic.twitter.com/7Sz2WpS35s
— Laura 🌸 (@RosePlanted__) February 13, 2022
(h/t – Fightful)
