Well, she's a force to be reckoned with,
and a pro wrestler you may know.
Her name is Thunder Rosa and for her
the storm has just started at the
San Antonio based superstar just
clinched and historic win last month,
earning the medal as the All Elite
World Wrestling Women's World Champion.
Hello, I want hard earned honor that was, but
it's not just a gold belt
that really makes her
and that is so true.
'cause we caught up with
Melissa Cervantes Robles.
Everybody knows her as Thunder Rosa.
She talks about her dedication
to giving back to her community
and how she's using her skills in
the ring to help the San Antonio
Salvation Army take a look. So
some I may be known as Ponderosa
the professional wrestler.
But to my friends and my family
I'm simply Melissa. I was born
and raised in Tijuana.
I moved to California when I was 17.
We brought whatever little we had
on two and a van and in a Prius.
And we just drove from California to
Texas and with a lot of you know,
hope that we were going to make a difference.
Yeah, look at you now.
I know, tell us what you have there.
So this is the one of the most famous
titles the AW Women's World Championship.
New. You're right.
That I just earn less than
two weeks ago at the Freeman
Coliseum where I actually
had my first MMA fight too.
Let's say you're a woman of
many talents. Yeah, I sing.
I act. I do mayeye wrestle. I'm a mother.
What was like the biggest challenge
that you had to overcome being a
female entering this this industry,
which is not easy to get into in
the 1st place people take you,
you serious 'cause when they see
wrestling they always say the
typical is well wrestling is fake,
you know. Oh well, that's not.
That's not a real sport.
I mean, I can tell you it took me like
10,000 hours not to perfect my craft,
but to be really good at what I do.
And just the fact that I'm also older.
I started when I was 28.
I don't look like your typical young
female wrestler, it was it was.
It was very difficult to to like
squeeze in and get opportunities,
but for me when there was a number
on the table, there was a yes.
And another way I always tell people that
you have to see a positive and a negative
right and see the solutions instead
of just complaining about the problem
in bettering others.
I was able to better
myself in helping others.
I to learn to believe in myself.
I know it's important to you to give
back and now that this is your your home,
you always try to give back to
this community.
On April 16 we have
a show living on the Edge to help
before the after school program
in the Southside of San Antonio.
And that's one of the parts
of the city that needs.
The most help after school programs
were so key for a lot of these kids,
because this is like a safe
haven for them living on the
edge. You know what's what's
the connection there in parts
of the city like that,
you sometimes you can feel like
you're living on the edge,
like 'cause you never know if
you're gonna get in trouble or
being in the wrong place at the
wrong time can get you into things.
You know that you didn't never
thought that you would get in.
But that's the reality of a lot of people.
They live on the edge every single day.
What do you want people to know
about you that they can't see from
a YouTube video from a performance?
I'm a hustler. I am a person that that
takes don't take no as an answer.
And also I am a visionary and I
am a very very very given person.
I think before so some people might
think that when I try to help somebody
because I want something back,
I really don't want anything back.
I just want I want to make a difference.
Tell me what that means for you to be a
role model to be like her. She did this
if I can show that one time and people
say like she's doing it because she
wants to help and that encourage them
to help somebody that is in need.
That to me it's everything more than
the money more than the fame and more
than anything else I can have, you know.
And here's how you can help
Thunder Rosa will be tearing it
up in the ring on April 16th.
The show is called living on
the edge and it will benefit
the San Antonio Salvation Army.
They're raising money for after
school programs in this in
the South San Antonio area.
To get your tickets, just go to
missionprowrestling.net and Marvin.
I got a chance to jump into the ring.
It was a great honor for me to be in the
ring with the world champion. But yeah,
I don't know how I did just take a look.
Kind of a little embarrassing.
There she is. So she said that she
didn't want to really body slam me.
That's what she's going to try to teach me,
but you can see that yeah,
it's a good thing.
She was really nice.
I think that my
Co anchor is leaving get ready
world for Vanessa.
Well you could see I I just got
to hold the belt for a second but
obviously yeah I have no chance.