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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