Update On Thunder Rosa and AEW Talent Not Believing her injury
Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com noted that “one of the issues is a lot of people in wrestling think she’s not hurt although we are told the back injury is legit and she stopped wrestling because of the fear she would need surgery if she kept going.”
It appears that people are suspicious because Rosa announced her injury shortly after she was informed that she would be dropping her title to Toni Storm at All Out. The scenario was compared to Shawn Michaels forfeiting the WWE title in 1997 due to an “injury” when there were plans for Michaels to put over Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13.
Meltzer also wrote the following…
“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.”
Meltzer added that the idea is for Rosa to return in two to three months for a unification match against the interim champion Storm. During the media scrum after All Out, Storm said “when she says she’s not injured, she can come back and lose to me.”
Konnan commented on Thunder Rosa's injury situation on his Podcast & Rosa says she has a back injury but Konnan said that she privately told him that she had a torn ACL. On Busted Open Radio, Rosa said that she had trouble moving because of her back injury.
Konnan talking about Thunder Rosa’s injury:
“I actually asked her. I said, ‘Yo, why would you tell me that it’s your knee when it’s your back?’ She said, ‘Oh, I thought I told you it was my back.’ I go, ‘No, you told me it was your fu**king knee. Why would you say that?’ It’s either your knee or your back. There is no confusing it.' That’s like me telling you, ‘Yea, I’m not going to show up because I have an eye infection’, and then I go, ‘No, what I really meant is my knee.’ The conspiracy guy in me felt like maybe, and I can be absolutely wrong, that maybe for having problems backstage, they sat her down and said, ‘Say you’re injured.’ But, she can also be injured.”
