Meeting Was Held Backstage In AEW Regarding Thunder Rosa’s Return To The Company

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 many complaints from the roster 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 she herself indicated she was happy to have 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.”

We did inquire directly to Thunder Rosa, who didn’t provide details or confirmation of the meeting, but said that she was happy to be on commentary. There were some in AEW that were under the impression that Rosa provided details of the meeting, which is untrue.

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