Bryan Danielson, who was working in WWE at the time as Daniel Bryan, says that behind the scenes at WWE, there was a shared sentiment that women's wrestling should not feature that level of violence. In Bryan's opinion, that match helped get women's wrestling and AEW to the next level.
"There was a ton of hoopla backstage in WWE when Britt wrestled Thunder Rosa and it was bloody," Danielson recalled during a recent
SXSW Panel. "There were a bunch of people backstage saying, ‘Women’s wrestling should not be like that. This is horrible. We would never do that.’ Except, if you’re talking about equal rights, letting women go out there and do things that men do. That kind of match took Britt and women’s wrestling and AEW to the next level. You’d watch it and be like, ‘These women are stars.’"
this is what real feminism looks like btw