Thunder Rosa and Kris Statlander have both been part of AEW for quite some time, five-plus years for Statlander and four-plus for Thunder Rosa, and there’s so many parallels between their careers. Each one worked their way up the ranks of the Women’s Division to become champions. Rosa did it first when she claimed the AEW Women’s World Title on March 16, 2022, but eventually Statlander followed when she won the TBS Championship May 28, 2023. Each sustained serious, potentially career-altering injuries that robbed them of extensive periods of time in their careers; nineteen months between two injuries in the case of Kris Statlander and 16 out of Thunder Rosa’s. Each has faced the best women AEW has to offer, they’ve won, they’ve lost, and yet in all this time one thing that never happened in AEW was Kris Statlander versus Thunder Rosa! In fact it’s been nearly six years since the last time they went one-on-one pre-AEW, and it’s only happened twice in their entire careers with “La Mera Mera” picking up the win both times!
Both have come a long way since that August 2019 battle in Winston-Salem, NC, they’ve even been partners on a handful of occasions here in AEW, most recently against Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford back in February, but now that an ALL IN: TEXAS fight for the AEW Women’s World Championship is at stake for the winner of The Owen, the stakes are so much higher than ever before! The winner of this contest will face the winner of the Jamie Hayter/Billie Starkz Quarterfinal in the Semifinal round, but will it be the former World Champion or the former TBS Champion who takes that next step towards DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2025?