AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa has said that women wrestling at independent events should be offered separate locker rooms to feel safe.

Rosa is no stranger to the indies, having worked with several promotions over the years, and continues to work the occasional indie date despite being signed to AEW.

Speaking on the Under The Ring podcast Thunder Rosa said how women can feel intimidated by sharing a locker room with male wrestlers:

“This last Saturday, we had the only female-run show at WrestleCon that ran an all-female show. We were super organized, it just felt so good,” she said. “And one of the veterans that came and visited it was like, ‘I really like the locker room, because it was relaxed, everybody was there. And when some issues arose, it wasn’t brushed under the rug, you guys took care of it.’

“When I go to a locker room, and there’s not a space for us to change, especially on the independent scene… I’ll be like, ‘I need a room for my five, six girls. They need to be changed in a place where they can take their clothes off, and they don’t feel like everybody is watching, and they don’t need to be putting a towel on.’ We have the right to do that, it’s 2022.”

Rosa captured the AEW Women’s World Champion from Dr. Britt Baker on the March 16, 2022 edition of AEW Dynamite.