There is an interesting line in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter about Thunder Rosa.
Meltzer said that it was noted to him that a lot of the extras used by AEW that were close to Thunder Rosa have not been booked of late. Those names would include KiLynn King, Madi Wrenkowski, and Jazmin Allure. No word on why the decision was made to not use them.
Rosa is the AEW Women’s World Champion and she is said to be out with a back injury. Toni Storm recently said the following to Bleacher Report about her interim title reign: “I guess my first thing would be to beat Thunder Rosa and stop this interim nonsense. That’s kind of what’s been bothering me. I think that’s been bothering a lot of people because she’s still calling herself the AEW Women’s world champion and I’m the one here every week doing the work”
Last month, Meltzer talked about division among the women and Rosa: “There was a lot of division among many of the women and Rosa, basically the ones who made public comments that insinuated her injury wasn’t that bad or those who privately felt due to the timing of her saying her injury was serious and she’d need time off after being told she was dropping the title to Toni Storm.”
Again, it’s not confirmed that Rosa’s friends aren’t being used because of issues with Rosa but the timing is interesting. This all comes after several, including Konnan, had expressed skepticism about the severity of Rosa’s back injury.
