Thunder Rosa Thought ‘Girl, I Know You’re Only Doing It For The Clout’ About Britt Baker While Preparing For Their Lights Out Match

Thunder Rosa reflects on competing in a Lights Out match against Britt Baker in All Elite Wrestling.

On the March 17th, 2021 edition of AEW Dynamite, Rosa and Baker would meet in a Lights Out match marking the first main event in the companies history to exclusively feature women’s talent. The match was a brutal hardcore affair, with Rosa eventually walking away with the victory.

While speaking to Real 92.3 LA in an new interview, Thunder Rosa spoke about AEW no longer being just an alternative, and also reflected on facing off with Britt Baker in a Lights Out Match, stating her belief that Britt Baker was in it for ‘the clout’.

“For the longest (time) we were the alternative. We’re no longer the alternative we’re here we’re here we’ve been here for six years and the stuff that we have been able to accomplish, and I am very proud and I’ve always been very proud of this. I was part of like one of the biggest changes in mainstream wrestling was having one of the most compelling and brutal matches that people in mainstream media have seen, and this happened during the pandemic in front of no people or just our peers. It was a lights out match. It was between Britt Baker, Dr. Britt Baker and me, and we won the match of the year during that year, which is a huge deal for professional wrestlers. It was the first time that they saw two women bleed on TV and we had an extreme match. There was ladders, chairs, thumbtacks, you name it. It was brutal, and I remember the time that that happened, I wasn’t even signed for the company. I was working for NWA. So I was a lone person there. So I remember Britt was telling me like,’ we’re going to make sure that this goes great and we don’t mess up or whatever.’ She said something else, and I’m just thinking like, ‘girl, I know you’re doing it for the clout.’ I’m doing it because people don’t understand that this is not only gonna change my life, but this is gonna change a lot of morenitas and brown people’s lives.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Rosa spoke about the offer WWE made for her to become a referee with the company in 2019. You can read more about that here.

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