WWE Raw star and a former WWE Raw Women’s champion Rhea Ripley who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently revealed that she never thought she would work as a member of a faction. She said that she thought she would always work as a singles wrestler.
From the very beginning of her WWE career, Rhea Ripley mostly worked as a singles wrestler. She won multiple championships from the development territories of WWE and all of them were singles titles. After coming to the main roster she kept on doing her singles role and she succeeded pretty much.
Rhea Ripley Admits She Never Thought She Would Work In A Faction
Of course, she worked with former WWE RAW Women’s Champion Nikki ASH as a Tag Team wrestler and together they won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship one time. The team did not co exist for long as Nikki Ash betrayed Rhea and the team ended. Once again Rhea started working alone.
After WrestleMania 38, she teamed up with Edge and Damian Priest, expanding the Judgement Day faction. It went through a number of changes but Rhea remained a permanent member of the faction and she also turned out to be the most successful member of the Judgement Day.
Rhea Ripley who is also a former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to the Checkpoint Podcast where she revealed that she never thought she would work as a member of a faction. She said that she thought she would always work as a singles wrestler. She said;
“It’s really cool (being part of the faction wars). It’s something that I didn’t think I would be a part of. I thought I was always going to be a singles competitor, maybe in the tag team division for a little bit, but mostly singles. To be a part of a group is so cool, and to know that group started with a legend like Edge is even more insane.
“Watching him while I was growing up, I cried when he retired. He was one of my favorites. To him, recruiting me and Damian Priest, someone who I’ve come up with in NXT. We both came to the main roster at the exact same time. We’ve both been friends for a long time, we’re very similar in and outside of the ring. We’re very close.
“To have us three in the Judgment Day, to start it and build it from the ground up, it’s really cool. To see how it’s evolved now where we’ve kicked Edge out because he started telling us what the hell to do. I don’t like being told what to do, if you don’t know, if you haven’t realized. We recruited Finn, we recruited Dom Dom, and it’s been a really fun time. We go out there and we’re having a ball.”
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