#4 Rhea Ripley reflects on her first two WWE WrestleMania matches taking place during the pandemic
WWE Superstar Rhea Ripley history with WrestleMania to date is certainly complex.
Ripley made her WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania 36 losing the NXT Women's Championship to Charlotte Flair in front of zero fans at the WWE Performance Center due to the global pandemic.
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The following year the Australian star defeated Asuka to capture the RAW Women's Championship in front of a limited capacity crowd at Raymond James Stadium.
Reflecting on her WrestleMania experience, Ripley said that this year's match against Asuka was a huge accomplishment for herself:
“I know I had my first WrestleMania in the pandemic in front of zero fans, so then to go into 2021 and go out there and see the crowd and feel the electricity coming from them, the excitement and to hear the roar, everything was so special, and I got to wrestle Asuka… someone that I had wanted to wrestle since being 17 years old in Japan,” she said.
After capturing the RAW Women's Title at WrestleMania, Ripley held the title for 97 days before dropping the title to Charlotte Flair at Money in the Bank.
#3 Rhea Ripley explains how her WWE tag team with Nikki A.S.H was formed
In recent months, Rhea Ripley has been teaming up with Nikki A.S.H on WWE Monday Night RAW.
The duo even captured the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships in September before dropping them to Queen Zelina and Carmella on RAW in November.
Ripley admitted that she didn't really know how her team with Nikki A.S.H even got formed in the first place:
“It sort of just formed one day and I don’t really know how, but I’m sort of glad that it did... I have to get one of those backpacks with a lead on them because I feel like she could just disappear at any moment, and I’d be like, ‘Where’d Nikki go? Where’d she go?!’” she said.
The odd couple tag team has proved successful. However, after recently dropping their titles, they are desperate to become Tag Team Champions once again.