Lengthy earlier than she grew to become one in all AEW’s most dominant feminine performers, Thunder Rosa needed to reduce her tooth the identical means everybody else did; touring around the globe perfecting her craft. Lower than a 12 months into her wrestling profession, Rosa landed herself on a tour of Japan with STARDOM in 2015, which was a real studying expertise for “La Mera Mera.”
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Throughout a latest interview on Maria Menounos’ YouTube channel, Rosa seemed again on when she traveled to the opposite facet of the world with no work visa, no understanding of the Japanese language, and $500 to her identify, all with the objective of changing into the perfect wrestler on the planet. “On my fourth match I acquired a serious concussion and I used to be out for an entire month,” Rosa mentioned. “That firm was going by means of a transition, so the outdated coach stop after which they’d anyone new, after which they introduced some veterans. I did not actually know, I reside in America so it is completely different, I completely did one thing horrible to one in all my Senpai … I did not promote, and I acquired concussed.”
Rosa defined that she acquired by throughout her time on the shelf by means of the Japanese wrestling followers serving to her, and the remainder of the women on tour together with her, by offering meals and merchandise for them since their allowances weren’t getting them very far. Rosa would end her first tour with STARDOM, and would return to the corporate the next 12 months, earlier than touring with Tokyo Joshi Professional Wrestling in 2019. Nonetheless, Rosa by no means forgot about her first journey to Japan, and the individuals who helped her essentially the most resembling Starfire, present WWE star Nikki Cross, and the late Hana Kimura, who was solely a youngster on the time.
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