10 Biggest Heat Magnets In Wrestling Right Now
2. Thunder Rosa
It's really quite something that Tony Khan has made the same mistakes as every other modern wrestling promoter.
He was Mid-South Tony: the message board poster who knew what WCW had across 1996 and 1997 and attempted to reboot it, in effect. He was the wrestling mega-fan and historian who knew what to do and, more encouragingly, what not to do. He said himself to the Financial Times in February 2020 that he studied the fall of WCW for that exact purpose.
He didn't bone up on his WWF 1997, because he's done the exact same thing as Vince McMahon to the detriment of the morale in the women's division: knowing that Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker actively despise one another, he has linked them in storylines for close to two years. Naturally, it has fallen apart.
Thunder Rosa, per various reports, is blamed for the issues. Her being a heat magnet is easy enough to infer from her onscreen conduct; she visibly sandbagged Marina Shafir and kicked Jamie Hayter directly in the back of the head. Unflattering, reckless: these can't be mistakes, or at least one of them can't. Her back injury - which Toni Storm very gently suggested was bullsh*t, but it very well may not be - might account for the former transgression.
But then, what accounts for the reports sourced by Fanbyte's David Bixenspan, who spoke to several sources and ascertained that one thought Rosa "has hesitance to bump and/or feed for her opponents’ offense"? And yet more claiming that Rosa is awful to extras?
That's sh*t disturber stuff through and through.