AEW is reaching for a clean slate.
Thunder Rosa is currently out of action with injury, but returned to the road last week and is not apart of the spanish language announce team while she recovers. Ahead of Thunder initially leaving, there was a lot of drama between Thunder and multiple women surrounding such topics as bullying and sandbagging. Now, Fightful Select reports that AEW held a talent meeting for the women to try and ease the tension and make amends.
A major backstage meeting was held at the AEW Dynamite tapings on February 8.
Former AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa returned to the road for the first time since her injury forced her to eventually vacate the title. Fightful Select has learned that there was a locker room meeting for all of the women on the roster who were present at the tapings. Those that we heard from said that it was an effort to ease the tension between Rosa and the locker room after several relationships had frayed.
Those that we spoke to with knowledge of the meeting said that Rosa did a lot of “making amends” for several issues that came up along the way during her previous run in the company. There were those on the roster that took issue with her approach to things, and believed she made others on the women’s roster seem like bullies. There were also complaints about sandbagging and working stiff. One member of the roster was quick to say that Rosa was met with some of that early in her AEW run as well, but that had long been rectified. There were some on the roster that took issue with her not being on the road with AEW while traveling for other work, and questioned the legitimacy of her injury, which Rosa addressed publicly.Rosa wasn’t wrestling, but instead did Spanish-language commentary, which sources indicated she was happy to participated in. She noted that she’d be back on the road recently, but wouldn’t be wrestling immediately. Those close to her claim she isn’t cleared yet, but is getting closer to it.
A member of AEW management told us they believed the meeting was productive and hoped it was a “clean slate.”
– Fightful Select
Hopefully now that Thunder Rosa is back on the road with the company, things will get better and the women’s locker room will fully make amends.
H/T Fightful Select
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