A former AEW Women’s Champion has a bold claim about the female roster.
At All In 2024, Mariah May defeated Toni Storm to win the Women’s Championship. Since then May has defended the gold against the likes of Mina Shirakawa, Anna Jay, Willow Nightingale, and more. She is now scheduled to face Thunder Rosa at the AEW Worlds End PPV.
However, a few weeks ago at the All In 2025 Tickets On Sale event, the former women’s champion in an exclusive interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful made some bold claims about the women’s division. Rosa believes it is time for someone selfless to lead the division instead of May. This interview took place before May’s successful title defense against Mina Shirakawa at Winter Is Coming.
All the time, and as a matter of fact, there’s something really special happening at Winter’s Coming, which is this Wednesday, and where Mariah May and Mina Shirakawa are gonna be wrestling, and I’m paying really close attention to both of them. I think it is time, Sean, that someone who is not selfish finally takes care of the division, because it really bothers me when people say that the division is dead and buried, because somebody’s carrying a shovel.
I don’t think so, Mariah, and I’m talking to you. If you win the match, I already know it’s gonna be you, but if Mina, I like Mina. But in terms of Mariah, I just feel like she’s been extremely selfish. She’s shown definitely that there is no loyalty to anyone, that she will stab anyone and anybody to be where she wants to be at and that shows.
She did it twice already. Twice! I don’t feel like that should be someone who represents the women’s division at this moment. We need to unify it. We need someone who has been there, done that, and who cares for everybody else and that is me.”
H/t FIghtful
With her title match coming up in a few days on 28th December, Rosa also opened up on recreating history at Texas during All In 2025.
Thunder Rosa Looking To Recreate Historic Moment At AEW All In 2025
In the same interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Rosa also commented on recreating history in Texas. At AEW Dynamite: St. Patrick’s Day Slam, Rosa defeated Britt Baker to win the Women’s Championship in San Antonio, Texas. Speaking on the interview, she said,
It’s very special. I am like really putting this in the air that I get an opportunity next year in July to have, possibly, a championship match with whoever is the champion at the time. Let’s remember one of the most iconic moments in AEW, in the women’s division, was when they came to San Antonio and I was crowned the AEW Women’s World Champion. I think that moment was very, very, very special. But now, Thunder Rosa is a little different. She’s Thunder Rosa 3.0 and I’m a little extra. Extra, extra.”
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