The WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley goes over a number of conversational topics.
This past Friday on SmackDown, Charlotte Flair and Jade Cargill met face-to-face as Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque was escorting Cargill into the office where Flair and new SmackDown G.M. Nick Aldis was. Cargill appeared on NXT TV earlier that week and was greeted by Shawn Michaels.
The reigning WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley was interviewed by Sporting News Australia and told the outlet she is excited to see what Cargill brings to WWE. If Cargill comes to Monday Night Raw, Ripley would love to step in the ring with her. Ripley saw Jade’s work in AEW and thinks she’s fantastic and a star.
I’m very excited to see what she (Jade Cargill) brings to WWE. I really am. Like you said, she’s a big name and a lot of people are watching and waiting for her debut. We don’t know which brand she’s gonna be on yet. It could be Raw, it could be SmackDown, it could be NXT. No one really knows exactly what’s going on. If it is Raw, that’s my show. Mami runs Raw. The Judgment Day, we run Raw so, if Jade wants to come to my brand, then I would love to step in the ring with her and show her exactly why mami’s always on top. Because I have watched bits and pieces of her from her time in the other brand, in the other company and she is fantastic and she believes in herself and she is a star, she believes she’s a star which is always the most dangerous thing. When someone believes in themselves, they are very hard to stop. But, I’m also mami (Ripley laughed). So, I’m waiting for that day that I do get to step in the ring with her. I think it’s gonna be a very exciting match and just to have someone that’s so physically impressive across the ring from me, it excites me. I love a good challenge and I’m waiting for that day.
Ripley is a staple within the Judgment Day faction. She was asked for her thoughts about being presented as the leader of a male-dominated group. Ripley then stated that Judgment Day does not have a leader.
I’m pretty confident within myself. I feel like we’ve been doing a lot of the right things lately and I mean, The Judgment Day, we don’t technically have a leader. None of us really lead. We just have specifics jobs that we are better at and for me, when it comes to my boys, I’m very good at making plans and they all believe in my plans and they know that they work and that’s why they listen to me. That’s why most of time, you see me bossing them around and trying to stand my ground and tell them no sometimes. I tell them to go. It really depends what the plan is but it’s because I’ve thought it all through. I’m not running off emotions because it’s not me that’s in that situation. I stopped (Damian) Priest from cashing in at the P.L.E. because he wasn’t 100 percent. He had been beaten up in his tag team match and he was obviously running off anger which is never good because that’s when you slip up so I told him no. I told him to give me the briefcase so, I feel like there’s no specific leaders but we all have our jobs and for me, my job is making the plans for the boys to execute and obviously, I will be there to help out as well. But yeah, it’s been a lot of fun. It really is. It is a challenge, especially dealing with them three boys and maybe a fourth, we’ll see. But they’ll listen to me and they all believe in me and it helps me believe in myself at the same time. So I’m just getting started, we’re all just getting started and we’re all having the time of our lives.
Coming up in February 2024, WWE is presenting their Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event from Optus Stadium in Perth, Australia.
Ripley shared that she knew WWE had been trying to get back to Australia for quite some time because any time something would be in the works, she would hear about it. She was excited to see the Elimination Chamber P.L.E. in Australia be formally announced.
I’m ecstatic man (for Elimination Chamber in Australia). I know how long WWE have been trying to go to Australia because every time something sort of gets in the works, I hear about it and each and every time, it’s sort of fallen through and it’s made me really upset because all I wanna do is go home and wrestle in Australia. So, to see it actually be announced for everyone to see, where it can’t get canceled (she laughed), it made my day, it really did. It’s such exciting news and I know that all the other Aussies are so pumped and I hope they all get to come back and be on the show as well because this is something that we work towards. We all work towards getting to WWE but then we all wanna be able to be a part of WWE and perform where we first started. But that’s the specialness that comes with it. That’s what everyone really truly wants. So, I know that the others are ecstatic, I’m ecstatic, I know the crowd is gonna be ecstatic because it’s been a long time since WWE’s been to Australia. So I think it’s gonna be an absolutely ballistic, wild night and I can’t wait to hear the crowd and just feel that electricity while I’m out there and it being Elimination Chamber too. This is a PLE…
The Women’s World Champion is scheduled to be in action on the 10/16 season premiere of WWE Raw. Ripley will be going one-on-one with Shayna Baszler. Ripley, Baszler, Nia Jax and Raquel Rodriguez have all been targeting one another.
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