Thunder Rosa says WWE Offered Her $60,000 A Year To Be A Referee In 2019

Thunder Rosa shares what WWE offered her to become a referee in 2019, with Rosa explaining the process.

It has been well documented that WWE offered Thunder Rosa a contract as a referee but now, Rosa has explained that she was offered a sizeable regular paycheck with the company at the time.

While speaking to Real 92.3 LA in an new interview, Thunder Rosa shared that she was initially offered a $60,000 contract in 2019 to become a referee with WWE.

“In 2019, they (WWE) called me and they were like, ‘are you ready to hang up the boots?’ I was like, well, you know, I needed money. So I was like, I needed steady money because, brother, being an independent professional wrestler is, when you’re talking about hustle, it’s a hustle. I had a job when I was in the Bay Area, but when I decided to do wrestling full time, I was depending on my, ex-husband and like my hustle. I was hustling all the time and I was tired. Like hustling after like seven years, you’re like, man, I need a job or like something, and they offer me like $60,000 a year, which at the time it was like, all right, it’s better than what I was making. There was a hurricane that happened and then they just keep like pushing my, my tryout and then never happened, but it was meant to be that way, and that’s when I made the decision to jump into MMA, because they offered me a $3,000 contract.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Thunder Rosa commented on Persephone signing with AEW. You can read more about that here.

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