Thunder Rosa on WWE Offered Her a $60,000 Per Year Contract in 2019 to Retire and Become a Referee & Her Belief Britt Baker Only Wanted To Do Their Lights Out Match in 2021 For The “Clout”

Real 92.3 LA held a recent interview with Thunder Rosa. One of the topics discussed included Rosa revealing that WWE had offered her a contract in 2019 worth $60,000 per year for her to retire from her in-ring career and become a referee for them.

“In 2019, they (WWE) called me and they were like, ‘are you ready to hang up the boots?’ I was like, well, you know, I needed money. So I was like, I needed steady money because, brother, being an independent professional wrestler is, when you’re talking about hustle, it’s a hustle. I had a job when I was in the Bay Area, but when I decided to do wrestling full time, I was depending on my, ex-husband and like my hustle. I was hustling all the time and I was tired. Like hustling after like seven years, you’re like, man, I need a job or like something, and they offer me like $60,000 a year, which at the time it was like, all right, it’s better than what I was making. There was a hurricane that happened and then they just keep like pushing my, my tryout and then never happened, but it was meant to be that way, and that’s when I made the decision to jump into MMA, because they offered me a $3,000 contract.”

Rosa also gave her thoughts about her Lights Out match against Britt Baker in 2021 in AEW and her belief that Baker only wanted to do the match for the “clout.”

“For the longest (time) we were the alternative. We’re no longer the alternative we’re here we’re here we’ve been here for six years and the stuff that we have been able to accomplish, and I am very proud and I’ve always been very proud of this. I was part of like one of the biggest changes in mainstream wrestling was having one of the most compelling and brutal matches that people in mainstream media have seen, and this happened during the pandemic in front of no people or just our peers. It was a lights out match. It was between Britt Baker, Dr. Britt Baker and me, and we won the match of the year during that year, which is a huge deal for professional wrestlers. It was the first time that they saw two women bleed on TV and we had an extreme match. There was ladders, chairs, thumbtacks, you name it. It was brutal, and I remember the time that that happened, I wasn’t even signed for the company. I was working for NWA. So I was a lone person there. So I remember Britt was telling me like,’ we’re going to make sure that this goes great and we don’t mess up or whatever.’ She said something else, and I’m just thinking like, ‘girl, I know you’re doing it for the clout.’ I’m doing it because people don’t understand that this is not only gonna change my life, but this is gonna change a lot of morenitas and brown people’s lives.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2