AEW star Thunder Rosa has a strong response to a hateful anti-immigration message she received.
Former AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa took to X/Twitter to react to a hateful message someone sent to her. She noted that people are currently being treated like suspects in the U.S. because of their names and where they came from. Rosa believes that it is not strength, but fear dressed up as power.
Thunder Rosa further stated that she’s proud to be a Mexican from Tijuana and that she earned everything she accomplished in her pro wrestling career. She said people can be passionate about wrestling with different opinions, but it’s never alright to dehumanize anyone.
“I want to address something real,” Thunder Rosa began. “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. 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 like suspects, not because of what they’ve done, but because of their names, their accents, or the place that they came from. That is not strength. That is fear dressed up as power.
“I am Thunder Rosa, and yes, I’m proud to be Mexican, and yes, I am proud to be from Tijuana. And I have earned every step I’ve taken in this business with discipline, sacrifice, and love for wrestling. 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 them into immigrants, and into a punchline, that’s not fandom. That’s hate.
Thunder Rosa had a message for the fans and the locker room
“So here’s my message to the locker room, to the audience, and to everyone listening. We can keep wrestling tough without being cruel,” Thunder Rosa continued. “We can be loud without being dangerous, and we can protect this community by refusing to normalize intimidation. And to my Thunder army, don’t spread hate to clap back. Don’t share it, don’t repost it. Report it.
“Stand up for each other because the ring is where we fight. Not the comments, not someone’s identity. I’m not going anywhere. I’ll keep showing up for the people who see themselves in me and for the fans who believe wrestling is for everyone,” Thunder Rosa said.
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