AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa recently spoke with the Miami Herald’s Jim Varsallone to discuss being able to train at American Top Team, working with Paige VanZant, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On training at American Top Team: “Dan Lambert, the owner of American Top Team, him and I are pretty acquainted with each other. I love the fact that he tells the other fighters, ‘She fights too! She’s a badass. When she gets her next fight, I’m going to train her at American Top Team.’ ‘You will humble me.’ I went over there, trained, everyone is really nice. I’m always humble. Just because I’m champion and professional, I’m not going to come and tackle this game. When you come to the arena, that’s a different story.”
On of she has crossed paths with Paige VanZant: “Absolutely, yes. I talked to her and welcomed her to our world. She is another that, she never let her shortcomings stop her from what she wanted to do. She did MMA, bare-knuckle, now pro wrestling. She has other endeavors that help (outside) of professional wrestling and MMA that are bringing her a lot more money. You can’t knock other people’s hustles. MMA fighters, the ones that are very successful and on top, they are hustlers and not afraid of taking risks.”
On a potential wrestling and MMA series with Paige VanZant: “That would be wild. I don’t say no to nothing, so if AEW wants to do it, go ahead. I’ll ask Combate Global, ‘give me a t-shirt’ and do some co-promoting.”
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