Thunder Rosa Wants To Face Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, And Bayley
Thunder Rosa wants to wrestle three of the WWE’s top superstars.
Since joining AEW in 2019, the former NWA Women’s Champion has had some of the best women’s matches in the US. Her bout with Britt Baker was one of AEW’s finest matches, and Thunder Rosa is looking to add more classics to her already impressive canon.
Thunder Rosa sat down with TimHannRivera and spoke about the wrestlers she would love to face in the future. After talking about Mercedes Mone, Thunder Rosa named three WWE Superstars as some of her dream matches.
The former AEW Women’s Champion listed Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair and Bayley as the ones she’d love to step into the ring with. This is currently impossible due to her position in AEW, but who knows what could happen in the future.
“Another person I would love to wrestle, if I could, is Charlotte Flair. She’s an excellent, excellent wrestler. Bianca Belair, I think, has shown tremendous growth in the last two years—her level of wrestling is outstanding.” Thunder Rosa said.
“And last but not least, one of the best workers right now is Bayley. I respect Bayley as a person—she’s a wonderful individual who is always so giving to others. I would love to wrestle her. There are a bunch of other people, too, especially in AEW, that I haven’t wrestled yet.” added Thunder Rosa.
Thunder Rosa Pinpoints What AEW Can Do To Improve Its Women’s Division
Thunder Rosa was a recent guest on AEW Unrestricted. When asked about the current landscape of the AEW Women’s Division, Rosa said she feels very strongly that the company needs strong babyfaces to take on strong heels.
“Everybody has their thing, their flavor, their character. Everybody’s different in the division,” Thunder Rosa said. “I still feel very strongly that we need to have really strong babyfaces to go against the really strong personalities that we have as heels. One of the reasons why Willow Nightingale is so popular is not only because she’s good, it’s because she’s a real babyface. She’s been able to take it to the next level.
“One of the reasons why for me it was so entertaining and so fun to work, not only with Toni Storm, because Toni was becoming a babyface, but when she worked with me, she became the heel, it’s because I was like okay, I have to be a real babyface, and it was a challenge for me because you know how I am. But it’s not about who I am as Melissa, it’s who Thunder Rosa needs to be in the ring for the story.”
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CES 2025 comes to a close today, wrapping up a jam-packed week of high-tech, futuristic cars packing everything from artificial-intelligence voice assistants to flying cars and 1000-plus horsepower electric powertrains. Some of these vehicles are already on sale in other countries while some preview upcoming production cars and others are far-fetched flights of fantasy. So without further adieu, here are some of the coolest vehicles we spotted on the show floor at CES 2025.
Honda showed off two prototypes of its 0-series EVs, both of which are due to start production in 2026 and sport sleek, stylish bodywork. The 0 SUV will arrive first with more conventional looks while the radical 0 Saloon is due in late 2026 and wears the same radical wedge shape as the 2024 Saloon concept.
Chinese automaker Zeekr, founded in 2021 and part of Geely’s vast portfolio of brands, brought three vehicles to the show. The 001 FR is the most appealing from an enthusiast standpoint—the wagon-like shape cloaks a quad-motor electric powertrain cranking out 1248 horsepower. The aggressive body kit, which includes a sizable rear wing, gives the 001 FR serious presence, and we were impressed by the quality of its suede-covered interior. We’d love to get behind the wheel and pin the 001 FR’s accelerator.
The Zeekr Mix is drastically different from the 001 FR, a bubbly electric minivan for the Chinese market with a spacious cabin. The Mix seats five, but the front seats can swivel 270 degrees to either face rearwards, towards each other, or towards the coach doors, which open up with no pillar in between to ease access to the cabin. Despite the more practical approach, the Mix is no slouch, with a rear-wheel-drive 416-hp single-motor powertrain and up to 436 miles of range on China’s CLTC test cycle when fitted with the larger 102-kWh battery pack. We’d be curious to see how the Mix would stack up against the VW ID.Buzz if it was ever brought to America.
