Thunder Rosa addresses awkward AEW Dynamite segment with Megan Bayne

  • Ian Carey
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Thunder Rosa has addressed the “awkward” ending to a post-match angle from last week’s AEW Dynamite.

Rosa came out to save Kris Statlander from a post-match attack by Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford on the show. However, Bayne and Ford seemed unfazed by Rosa’s run-in, even though she was wielding a chair at the time. Ford stood in front of Bayne, but neither backed down as Rosa feigned swinging the chair at them. The segment ended when Bayne and Ford finally left the ring.

Fightful Select later reported that a producer or coach did not properly direct the talent on where they needed to be during the segment.

Rosa addressed what happened on today’s episode of Busted Open Radio.

“You guys saw what happened. From that, I have learned so much. The takeaways I have as a performer are always ask questions. Be sure of what you’re doing in the segment. The segment didn’t go the way we wanted to, and it showed,” she said (transcriptions via Fightful).

“There is no drama,” she continued. “We were all talking before the show and praising each other. We’re trying to be as positive as possible. I enjoy coming to work and I’m not the only one. Statlander was so supportive and nice. We were all going over stuff and receiving feedback. It was all positive. There is nobody trying to kill each other and stuff. There is no point. How are we going to grow if we’re fighting? Mistakes are made. It happened. We have to grow, we talked, and it was fine.”

Our own Dave Meltzer addressed what happened during the segment in last week’s edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, referring to it as the “weirdest segment of the week.”

“Thunder Rosa ran in with a chair for the save. Ford got in front of Bayne. I don’t know if they were supposed to bail out and didn’t. Obviously Rosa wasn’t supposed to hit them. So she went to hit them, they stood there and she stopped. I mean this just looked terrible,” Meltzer wrote.

He continued, “That’s the negative of so much pre-planning is that when things go wrong, nobody has the instinctive skill like the guys who worked 200 to 300 nights, because you would never see top guys of the past just freeze when something goes wrong like that.”