Bhupen Dange on March 21, 2022
AEW Dynamite’s St. Patrick’s Day Slam saw Thunder Rosa defeat arch-rival Britt Baker in a brutal and bloody steel cage match. Rosa finally became the AEW Women’s Champions after the title match. However, her bout with Baker was heavily criticized by fans.
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The new AEW Women’s Champion addressed the criticism during an interview with NBC Sports Boston. Her match with Baker was heavily lambasted for being “violent” and the two bleeding during their bout on St. Patrick’s Day Slam, Wednesday.
“Everybody’s gonna criticize no matter what. I mean, even on Wednesday, people were criticizing. ‘Why are you guys — why is there so much blood? Why is there so much? Why are you so violent? Why is this? Why is that?’ It’s like people are programmed a certain way and they have been programmed for professional wrestling for decades a certain way because of how things have been handled before.”
Rosa continued on how hard they have been working for fans, elaborating on women’s division in wrestling is changing things every moment to make it next level sports entertainment which she described will not be just a “popcorn match.”
You guys can criticize us all you want but we’re working really hard and every single company I feel, because we’re changing things little by little and I’ll tell you, myself, I’m taking that to a next level. I run a women’s promotion on purpose so like, so people can see, we’re not a popcorn match. Every single match is a banger, you know? And I have one exhibition match and that’s the men’s match, on purpose, you know? [Rosa laughed] So, like I said, give us time. It’s gonna happen.
This wasn’t the first time the two left each other bloody and battered inside the ring. Baker drew first blood during their historic Unsanctioned Lights Out Anything Goes match last year on the same St. Patrick’s Day Slam edition of Dynamite.
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March 21, 2022 5:45 am
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