Eve of World Title Match Tessa Called Out For Racism

Of all the time to make these allegations, they make them now? It smacks of jealously in my opinion, especially when literally everyone puts her over as a class act. I call bullshit.

IF (and that's a big if) all this is true it might clear up something people have wondered for a long time now. This all supposedly happened in 2017 which was also the year of the first Mae Young Classic, it was always odd that of all the names in that tournament not once did we ever hear Tessa was offered a WWE contract then when she showed up at the Impact Redemption ppv she made mention people didn't like her attitude and what not. Maybe coincidence, maybe not & let's say it was true, even still that was 3 years ago, people can change.

An interview with La Rosa Negra gave to Puerto Rico’s Contralona, the wrestler who new Impact World champion Tessa Blanchard is accused of spitting on and calling a racial slur during a 2017 backstage incident in Japanese promotion Stardom, (this was translated from Spanish so keep that in mind as the translation is kind of rough)

“When I saw those tweets, I was in shock and impressed because, since 2017, people have been pushing me to speak about something that isn’t necessary. I don’t like to talk about my personal life. I keep myself private. Reading all those fellow wrestlers tweets that supported me, and reading their names - it surprised me. Tweets from Renee Michelle, Sienna, Chelsea Green, Shanna and other female wrestlers about the comment made to me. And reading other non wrestlers comments, I said ‘I have to do something’ because it wasn’t how it says it was. Maybe people took it wrong. I don’t want to be overexposed with this. Female wrestlers know what really happened and why I didn’t say anything. Now, I want to clear things up.

I respected my work everywhere. About the comment, that every female has to respect themselves, it is right. But it didn’t come from the right person. Working in the US and Japan, I didn’t disrespect anybody. No female wrestlers, promoters, sponsors or any fan. That’s not me. People who know me know how I am. And the people I’ve worked for; NWA, Ring Warriors, Battling Bombshells, SHINE, Stardom, Marvelous, everywhere I’ve worked, they can tell you how I behave. I don’t like to talk mean about people. You won’t hear me talk bad about other wrestlers. I was there supporting people that helped me or didn’t. Because when you’re part of this business, you focus on yourself, your work, and work with respect. I don’t expect to receive any apologies. It’s not necessary. I erased what happened. I gave it to God. I took it out of myself. It saddens me that racism, envy, and bad things exist in sports. It is always there. As adults, when something bad happens, we can resolve things by talking. There’s always a solution. Mine was to forget what happened in that April 2017 in Japan.

I think this is a good experience for me because, now I know that I had a lot of backup. It is impressive. I didn’t know so many people knew about the situation until the Twitter thing. I feel fulfilled and tickled. I feel good and I know I achieved what I wanted. And nothing will dull everything I achieved alone.”

La Rosa Negra doesn’t mention Blanchard specifically, but doesn’t refute any of what is already out there (despite the phrase “it wasn’t how it says it was”, where whatever “it” refers to seems to have been lost in translation). If the scene with Tessa played out as the wrestlers mentioned reported it, La Rosa’s approach was to try to forget the incident until Blanchard’s tweet telling women to support each other brought it back up

WON: As things stand right now, AEW is not going to be Tessa Blanchard's destination. >*Regarding Tessa Blanchard, who has still not surfaced anywhere since being released by Impact and only wrestled once since the pandemic started, which was a loss to Kylie Rae on Warrior Wrestling, as things stand right now, this is not going to be her destination. Based on what we were told, when her name came up, the feeling was that while nobody will deny her talent and from that standpoint they know she’d be very valuable, especially with the nature of their women’s division, the decision was made to not pursue her

BobbyTheBrain when you say dogshit booking, you mean Womens division or AEW as a whole?

I agree, AEW has terrible booking. For a while they were having some fantastic endings to Dynamite but from what I've seen lately it's been garbage. Even this angle on Wednesday came off as flat to me.