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Thunder Rosa Responds To Sickening Message After AEW Comeback

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Feb 23, 2026 09:50 EST
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AEW star Thunder Rosa has responded to a message of hate she received after competing in her first match for seven months.

The February 18th edition of AEW Dynamite saw a huge night of action as Kenny Omega went one-on-one with Swerve Strickland. Strickland won the match, but that wasn’t enough, as he continued the attack after the bout, driving Omega through the announce table with a sickening vertebreaker. That may well have been done to write Omega off TV for the time being, as he won’t be available for the Revolution pay-per-view on March 15th.

Dynamite also saw the return to TV of former AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa. Rosa appeared during a backstage segment with Kris Statlander, revealing that she was cleared for action as she set her sights on the current AEW Women’s World Champion, Thekla.

Thunder Rosa Speaks Out Against Hate

Thunder Rosa had not been in action since All In Texas, back in July 2025, but that all changed when she took on Julia Hart on the February 21st edition of Collision. La Mera Mera won that back, but more notable was the entrance gear she wore, sporting the words “Mujer Mexicana Migrante”, which translates to English as “Mexican Migrant Woman.”

Taking to social media after the match, Thunder Rosa responded to a hateful message she received, one she says attacked who she is and where she’s from:

I want to address something real. I received a hateful message, the kind that doesn’t critique my work, but it really attacks who I am and where I came from.

I’m not going to repeat it, and I’m not going to give this guy more oxygen, but I will say this, in the United States right now, a lot of people are being treated as suspects. Not because of what they’ve done, but because of their names, their accents, or the place that they came from.

If you don’t like my matches, my promos, my style, that’s your right. Wrestling is a passionate sport. Debate is part of it. But dehumanizing people, threatening them, turning immigration into a punchline, that’s not fandom, that’s hate.

So here’s my message to the locker room, to the audience, and to everyone listening. We can keep wrestling tough without being cruel. We can be loud without being dangerous, and we can protect this community by refusing to normalize intimidation.