Thunder Rosa addresses hateful message received after AEW Collision
Thunder Rosa released a video on Sunday in response to a hateful message she received following AEW Collision.
Rosa returned to the ring for the first time in eight months on Saturday’s show in Oceanside, California. She said the message she received attacked “who I am, and where I came from.”
Rosa said:
“I want to address something real. I received a hateful message, the kind that doesn’t critique my work, but it really attacks who I am and where I came from.“
“I’m not going to repeat it, and I’m not going to give this guy more oxygen, but I will say this, in the United States right now, a lot of people are being treated as suspects. Not because of what they’ve done, but because of their names, their accents, or the place that they came from.”
“If you don’t like my matches, my promos, my style, that’s your right. Wrestling is a passionate sport. Debate is part of it. But dehumanizing people, threatening them, turning immigration into a punchline, that’s not fandom, that’s hate.”
“So here’s my message to the locker room, to the audience, and to everyone listening. We can keep wrestling tough without being cruel. We can be loud without being dangerous, and we can protect this community by refusing to normalize intimidation.”
Rosa entered the ring for her match with Julia Hart on Saturday with the words “Mujer Mexicana Migrante,” which translates to “Mexican Migrant Woman” written on her entrance gear. She later posted to X (translated), “Mexican Migrant Woman
Here we are and we’re not leaving!”
It was Rosa’s first match since AEW All In Texas on July 12, 2025.
Rosa’s video is below:
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