Rhea Ripley defeated Shayna Baszler this past Wednesday night to become the new WWE NXT Women’s Champion. It was a historic night by all means with two title matches on the card.
The main event featured this massive title change which also resulted in NXT’s first clean win against AEW over TV rating war. The match also ended Baszler’s long and dominating reign in the NXT Women’s division.
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Thus the era of a new Queen of the NXT Women’s Division began. Rhea Ripley is currently being helmed as perhaps the most shining star of the company. She will carry the women’s division for years to come in the main roster, too.
In fact, one of the veterans compared him straight to the former franchise players of the WWE.
The *ahem* Evolution of Rhea Ripley pic.twitter.com/7U0zTuxiWs
— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) December 19, 2019
WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry recently made some interesting comments on the Busted Open Radio show about Rhea Ripley. The part-time co-host of the Sirius XM broadcast was talking about NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley with permanent host Dave LaGreca.
MOSH PIT K̶I̶D̶ CHAMP.@RheaRipley_WWE is your NEW NXT #WomensChampion!!!!#WWENXT #NXTWomensTitle pic.twitter.com/tcDIRGMtP4
— WWE (@WWE) December 19, 2019
Henry pointed out how Rhea Ripley made history at a point when she is just a 23 years old superstar. Achieving a dream in such a short timespan is most possible unless someone is genetically gifted. Thus, Henry went ahead to mention she will eventually become the female John Cena or The Rock,
“At twenty-three years old I was still [power] lifting. I hadn’t even got into wrestling yet. Yet she’s [Rhea] already been in it, been there, done that…at twenty-three years old. What will she do in the next fifteen-twenty years? I’m gonna tell you, she’s going to transcend wrestling.”
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“she’ll be the next Rock. She will be the next John Cena, she will be able to be the next Batista. She should be able to go outside of wrestling and make a living because she’ll be a big mainstream star.”
An incredible main event and a new champion. One of the most dominant reigns over the @WWENXT Women’s division comes to end and another begins. @RheaRipley_WWE will be the one to lead #WWENXT into the new year… Congratulations. #AndNew pic.twitter.com/wXzZlWZIso
— Triple H (@TripleH) December 19, 2019
Head of NXT Triple H was also happy as he took to Twitter following this week’s broadcast and had huge praise for the new champion. He must believe that Rhea Ripley is a special talent who should be treated in the right way as to make her a money player.
