Thunder Rosa, who has been out of action for over a year due to a back injury, is days away from making her return to the ring.
Rosa had to pull out from an AEW Women’s Title defense at last year’s All Out 2022 pay-per-view event before relinquishing the title. She provided Spanish commentary for All Elite Wrestling during her time away from the ring. Her last match was a victory in trios competition in August 2022.
Skye Blue and TBS Champion Julia Hart, taking on Abadon and Rosa, has been booked for this week’s episode of AEW Collision.
Rosa joined Busted Open Radio, where she talked about her in-ring return. She said,
“Yeah, just think about it, 500 days. 500 days to be away from the ring and I wanna make it very clear and Mark (Henry) and you (Dave LaGreca) know, I never really left. You know this. I was always on people’s minds, I was always trending on Twitter, I’ve always been here. I’ve been surrounded by people that love me, people that help me like you Mark. All my friends, my family, my community. I also never really left. I was on Busted Open talking about the women’s division, I was on commentary that you guys didn’t see me and that’s one of those things that people are like, ‘Oh, she was on commentary.’ I’ve been working commentary for the Spanish table since February of this year. I’ve been working at AEW tirelessly, representing the women’s division as much as I could, in Mexico talking to athletes, in America talking to other athletes and my singing. I’ve been doing a lot that is not necessarily being in the ring. That was the next step this year. That was like my last thing I wanted to do was to come back in the ring because it’s very important to me. It’s very important because that’s a big way, a big platform for me to represent my people, to tell my people that it is okay to have setbacks but really to fight back and get back in there.”
She continued, “I’ve been training since August of this year in the ring, little by little, because it’s a progression, right? I have videos. My people on Patreon who if you haven’t subscribed to Patreon, you can see my whole entire journey because I put everything on Patreon. I don’t put it on my social media and free access and you can see the change in my body and the change in my mobility. It was difficult at first to come back because I was scared, I’m not gonna lie. I was a little scared, because, you’re coming from a back injury that didn’t allow you to do side jumping, jump, run and stuff like that and then it’s some of the stuff that you have to relearn again. But again, it’s like, this is the process that I feel will inspire men, women, little girls that if you have a disability or you have something that shouldn’t stop you from achieving your dreams.”
