Yahoo Autos Rhea Ripley Threatens Charlotte Flair & Reveals The Best-Kept WWE Secret About Non-Televised Matches
With a little more than a week remaining until WrestleMania 2023, Rhea Ripley still has plenty to say to the WWE Universe.
The wrestling world is still reeling from Rhea's recent unsettling and creepy encounter with some men who stalked her at the airport earlier in the week. However, her words have shed much-needed light on the serious topic of a WWE Superstars' right to privacy, what is and is not acceptable for fans to do, and how the WWE Universe can better respect the men and women who entertain them daily.
As it turned out, during our conversation with her earlier this week, Rhea Ripley pushed forward past the controversy and talked with us about other topics.
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First, we had to talk about the elephant in the room: namely, WrestleMania itself and Rhea's mindset ahead of the highly-anticipated SmackDown Women's Championship match against Charlotte Flair. Although, to be honest, based on the brawl that went down last week, we had a sense of what kind of emotions were going through her head:
In her usual candid and open style, Rhea didn't hold anything back when giving her thoughts on the upcoming title match.
"This is going to be a very heated match," she said. "Charlotte and I, we've got our history together. She beat me at my first WrestleMania for my NXT Women's Championship. She's taken my RAW Women's Championship away from me. She's sort've been the speed bump in my career. But I'm a different Rhea Ripley now. Going into this match, I don't care what she or anyone else thinks about me, I'm going in there for one thing and one thing only: To absolutely destroy Charlotte Flair. I'm going to take the one thing that makes her feel so special and so important in this company — and once I take the SmackDown Championship from her and I hold it over my head, she's going to feel so incomplete without her crown and that's the moment that everyone will realize there's a new wave of women here in WWE. The new generation is taking over."
These are chilling, almost prophetic words from Rhea. To ape one of Paul Heyman's famous sayings, was this a prediction from the Eradicator ... or a spoiler?
From there, the conversation turned a little more lighthearted as we brought up the countless photos of Rhea that constantly make the rounds on social media — which Rhea herself often shares. We don't know what it is, but fans can't get enough of Rhea, as she may be the most photogenic Superstar the WWE Universe has seen in quite some time. But, most importantly, it looks like Rhea is having fun whenever she is in the ring or supporting her Judgment Day mates from the ringside. So naturally, we had to ask: Is this the most fun she's ever had in her career?
