Matthews spoke highly of his wife Rhea Ripley and thinks she’s on her way to being an all-time talent.
Present-day, Buddy Matthews is with AEW and is a part of the House of Black with Malakai Black, Brody King and Julia Hart.
His history in WWE was brought up as he was doing a virtual signing with K & S WrestleFest. He was asked about the possibility of there being a long-term storyline involving himself, Dominik Mysterio and Rhea Ripley.
He thinks there’s potential for it and brought up the storyline he was involved in with Dominik, Rey and Aalyah Mysterio. He added that himself and Ripley have fantasy-booked it and maybe there’s a ‘forbidden door’ that could be opened.
Oh, 100 percent (there’s potential for an angle with myself, Rhea Ripley & Dominik Mysterio)… And we’ve fantasy-booked and I’ve thrown ideas at her. She’s like, ‘That would be so cool.’ Obviously, don’t wanna let it out because if it ever eventually did ever happen, it’s something cool to kind of play off but, it’s definitely ways to do it which would be very smart and catch people. But, I had Dom’s first or second match in WWE. I was there with Seth (Rollins) when he hit him with a Singapore cane 100 times. I ‘dated’ his sister, you know what I mean? I was a part of the Mysterio family. Long-term storytelling is there if we wanted to go back and do it, and the footage is there so, whether it is a relationship-form or just insert — there’s ways of doing it. So, and then again, with where we are with wrestling today, you can break that fourth wall in a way. They do in Deadpool & Wolverine… Maybe there’s a forbidden door that’s unknown and may open up eventually. Who knows? But, all we can do is play cards that we have in front of us down so, you know, you never know what’s gonna happen tomorrow that could be good, bad. Anything can happen in any given day whether it’s in the ring, in business, it could be at home, could be on the way to the airport. You just don’t know, so, anything could change.
Elsewhere during the signing, Matthews praised Ripley’s run in WWE. He stated that he’s her biggest fan and feels she’s ‘on the directory’ to becoming the greatest female wrestler of all-time.
He agreed with a point that Charlotte Flair was Ripley’s biggest competition for that title, but added that Ripley is 27 years of age and has many years left to go in wrestling.
Oh yeah (Rhea Ripley’s doing an amazing job in WWE). She’s absolutely killing it. I’m her number one fan, as much as all of her fans wanna claim they’re the number one but I’m number one. Yeah, she’s killing it.
I think that she’s on the directory (to becoming the greatest female performer of all-time)… That sounds weird coming from me because obviously, I’m biased but I think that there isn’t a performer that can do what she can do. She has a unique look, she continuously changes up her look and stays fresh. She’s Australian so she’s got that twang to her voice so that’s also unique to the market. She’s jacked like a mother — she works so good. She’s on the directory to be the best female to ever do it.
Oh, 100 percent, 100 percent (Rhea’s biggest competition was Charlotte Flair). Also, Rhea is 27 years old. So she’s got another 10 years to go, plus. So, you can listen to the audiences, you can hear the responses that she’s getting and I ask her all the time, I say, ‘You do A, B and C.’ She goes, ‘Do I?’ She doesn’t even know what she’s doing. She’s just being her. She’s 100 percent authentic to being herself and having fun and when you’re having fun, it comes through the TV. So, yeah, she could be the greatest to ever do it, in my opinion.
Matthews and Ripley got married in June 2024.
Matthews was released from WWE in the summer of 2021 along with current House of Black member, Malakai Black. The duo were most recently in action on the 9/27 episode of AEW Rampage.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit K & S WrestleFest with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
