Current AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa is out of action to recover from injuries. An interim women’s champion will be crowned at this Sunday’s All Out event in Chicago. The match to decide the interim champion will feature Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter, Toni Storm, and Hikaru Shida.
While out of action, Rosa spoke to with the Athletes and the Arts podcast on working hurt and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the pressure she put on herself to deliver: “We don’t sleep. Sometimes I go days with three, four hours of sleep. I own my own promotion outside of AEW, an all women’s promotion, and I was running three shows a month sometimes … I was overseeing the women that are wrestlers, and I was training other women too. So it was very grueling, and it was a lot of sacrifice.”
On how long she was working hurt: “Before I won my championship, I was hurt for the longest. One time, even doc was like ‘You need to be taped if you’re going into the ring.’ I couldn’t feel my legs when I got out of the ring. But I have to get out there. I couldn’t let people down. So I wrestled with my hips taped for about two months, because I was wrestling all the time. So it was like, nonstop because of that drive that we have. I wanted to be the champion. I wanted to be the best. I wanted people to say that I did it, I wanted to say that I did it for myself.”
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