6 Ups & 3 Downs From This Week's NWA Powerrr (Nov 5)
2. The Thunder Rosa Drums
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As a performer and as a character, Thunder Rosa was
fantastic in her NWA Powerrr debut. The thing is, the hefty drumbeat that accompanied
her wasn’t quite as fantastic.
In the build to her in-ring debut, we saw promo packages for
Thunder Rosa in which a big drumbeat played in the background. For that
purpose, the drums worked fine as the foreboding, ominous background noise to
the vignettes promising the Mexican’s impending NWA debut. But using that same
sound on the main studio-set TV product? It just didn’t work.
When the NWA has gone back to the tradition of having no
music for any of its competitors, it felt misjudged and ham-fisted to have the
heavy drum work play as Thunder Rosa tried to entice Marti Belle to turn heel.
The Thunder Rosa character was a smash hit in her NWA
Powerrr debut, but please, please, please leave those drums off the standard studio
show action involving this hugely promising talent.
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