Rhea Ripley talks about how she struggled with her image when joining WWE. She was afraid to truly be herself in fear of rejection. If you wanna see more conversations like this, it's simple: ✨subscribe!✨ #rhearipley #wwe
@@raineetoneme Backlash, Rhea beat Zelina. Night of Champions, Rhea beat Natalya. RAW, 3rd July, Rhea beat Natalya again. Payback, Rhea beat Raquel. Then beat her again on RAW, 11th Sept, in a rematch. Crown Jewel, Rhea was in a fatal five-way match against Jax, Rodriguez, Stark and Baszler, who she pinned to win. Survivor Series War Games, Rhea defeated Stark. RAW, 1st Jan, Rhea beat Ivy Nile. Elimination Chamber, Rhea defeated Nia. Night 1 of MW40, Rhea defeated Becky Lynch. All title matches where Rhea retained her title. All title matches Rhea fought in the 12 months from WM39 to WM40. But fools are still ALWAYS ridiculously claiming that Rhea supposedly didn't defend her title very much, because they were clearly taking no notice. Too busy hating Rhea to see what she was actually doing. Or they expect title holders to have title matches every week or something. Which would make the value of the title worthless.
I did not know that she had that connection with Ruby!! I proud of Rhea and Ruby for busting themselves to get to where they are right now which is on top!!
There isn't a nicer person in the world who deserves as much success as she has had. I've met her twice and I have looked up to her for several years now. Seeing someone in my age range living their dreams and doing what they love really is so admirable. Watching her progression and watching her overcome her self doubts really is inspiring.
She's a top-tier person. And doing it as an Australian when she started was next to impossible. She's helped kicked open a LOT of doors, that's for sure.
After an NXT house show in Buffalo NY in 2020, Rhea stayed out in the freezing cold for atleast 45 minutes to take pics and sign autographs with fans, even jumped over the barricade to take a pic with a disabled fan in a wheelchair. To this day it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen a wrestler do! She’s awesome!
I love Rhea Ripley. She's the reason why I got back into watching the WWE after about 17-18 years of not being interested in it anymore. I love how she's being true to herself and not caring at all about people who may not like who she is and what she's all about. And she's very proud to be who she is, too. It's so amazing to see someone in their 20's who has been able to recognise that we don't all have to be liked and loved by everybody. Rhea will always be on top for me. 💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤💜
Ngl when i 1st seen Rhea i said she'll most likely wont make it as the blonde because they already have the tall athletic blond and thats Charlotte but when she became moshpit mommy i knew she'd be a star she became something new and different
Ruby, if she DOES come back, won't be for some time. She still has quite a bit of contract time in AEW. Also, she's pregnant and will likely be on Maternity Leave for at least a year... So don't expect her back in WWE any time in the near future.
It seems that being herself might just work out for her someday. 😂 She is killing it for real. I'm excited to see her baby face run. I love it when they become a baby face without actually trying to and the fans make it happen. Those are the times when it sticks. I think she's legit top 3 in all of pro wrestling today. 🎉
The title and thumbnail really mislead me it made it seem like she was about to say ruby was fake and held her back 😂 surely on purpose from the uploader
It's nice to see that the time when Wrestlers are forced to meet all kinds of expectations are slowly but surely coming to an end. It's long overdue and nobody needed it. Especially since Vince is gone it seems like people just really enjoy themselves and it shows by how great things have gotten.
I kinda can relate to her: pleasing other people, mainly srangers, while the real you is screeming to for you to wake up from this constant life of fitting in different social norms and other forms of conformity if you will constantly reminding you that there's something deeper worth exploring than that constant faking.
I think a lot of people feel that way. Sometimes you are scared to show the real you in fear that people won’t like it. But as Rhea said wonderfully if they don’t like you they aren’t worthy of you anyway.
A good rule of thumb for anyone in life is always be weary of anyone that feels the need to tell you a) they hate liars or b) they hate fake people. Literally no one on earth likes either but when someone insists on telling you, its about as textbook a case of projection as you can get. I'm sure everyone knows that habitual liar that is always reaffirming "they hate liars"
Rhea was simply telling the interviewer why she wanted to stop pretending to be something that she wasn't, just to try and fit in with the WWE. Like she didn't like herself for trying to be different just to fit in. And how she wanted to start to be more like her true self. Rhea said NOTHING about hating liars. So, I don't know why you're bringing such words into this, as if to use it against Rhea and are accusing her of being a "habitual liar".
Rhea in her early years was... if you play a WWE 2k game, the generic female wrestler template. Probably one of the premade designs you can quick-pick for the story, etc Now, she is the face of the female div for me! She isn't a legend in the industry yet, but I am sure she will be someday. She's only getting better and better and will be a HoF inductee (but that's still years to come) esp her entrance with MiW? "This is my brutality" and her purple lights? remember that comeback while Dom and Liv were fooling around? at least the entrance and impact to the crowd is on the same level as Stone Cold and the breaking glass, Undertaker's gong and lights going off.. 😍🥰
She's a generational star, honestly. Got a long career ahead of her and we're not just biased cause she's an Australian either. Quality human and a HoF inductee for sure.
That's the problem you should never be a people please because not everybody is gonna like you. That's why people and it doesn't matter if they're a wrestler our the average ordinary blue collar worker who works 9 to 5 in life it's best to be a lone wolf and only please yourself because at the end of the day your opinion about yourself is the only opinion that matters.
Honest it was actually Paige that broke that mold cause she was the first female wrestling for WWE with quite a few visible tattoos that she got after signing.
Paige broke the mold? 🙃 It was only in recent years that Paige started to show her tattoos. Probably around the same time that Rhea was. It wasn't like she was getting them 10 years ago or so, to break the mold long before Rhea.
@@mebeme007 She was getting her tattoos before Rhea joined the WWE. There was a whole issue on total divas because she got a tat and didn't tell Creative. She had to hide it because they already had her figures out. Paige was young and very reckless, often not thinking through her actions in relationships. Hence her struggles in the company. She has more tattoos now but she started getting them then before Ruby was on the main roster.
@@ttjc3696 Well, Rhea never said that she only noticed Ruby once Ruby was on the main roster. And she never said Paige didn't have any tattoos. Rhea simply said that Ruby was the first one she looked at that had tattoos AND short hair. The mold that Rhea was referring to, of being pretty with no tattoos, all having long hair, etc. After all, Rhea was talking about hair length as well. NOT just only talking about tattoos and which female supposedly got the first tattoo in the WWE.
Growing up in the attitude era as the WWE bought off WCW, As a young 12 year old boy, I never cared about how pretty a female wreslter look (Although my hormones said otherwise), I just look up to the most athletic female wrestlers that go out everyday to put their bodies on the line for our entertainment. My favorite wrestler was Chyna when she was in DX. My favorite overall female wrestlers are Beth Phonix, ODB(TNA), Awsome KHAN, Jordyn Grace(Both Dummy thick and Roids), Rhonda Rousey, Jade cargill, Willow Nightinggale, and Rhea Ripley herself. Anyone else(Trish Stattus, Lita and Daphine of WCW can be a bit of an exception) are just pretty girl wrestlers who have no personality and used their looks. I wanna thank Triple H in making the woman's division of today more about athleticism over using s** to sell their brand. I love today's woman's division more than even the attitude era of woman from the 2000s.
I could add Asuka to that list, when it comes to female wrestlers who put their bodies on the line to entertain the fans of wrestling. Having seen her history, especially in the field of Japanese wrestling. OMG she was amazing!!!!! A REAL bada.. in every sense of the word.
Essentially, yeah. You're right. The earlier stages of her career she definitely let us know that she wasn't hitting her full potentially until she became more of herself.
It actually looks like she’s trying to fit in by wearing piercings and getting tattoos trying to be like the male wrestlers and not the other way around.
I cpuld praused her till the end of time, but wveryone else has that covered. What she says really rings poignantly if you think about a lot of the women that came before a lot of us remember, who knows what more they could have done had the timeing been right... like now for the current generation. I think the 4HW brought eyes on what standard women wrasslin could be on a mainstream level (no slight to the mexican/japanese or even TNA Knockots in 2007) but i think Rhea and Bianca in particular are the ones who have really taken it to somehing I've never seen before.
Ever heard of Lita? Also she isn't the first "bulky" woman in WWE either. Chyna, Jacqueline Moore, Alundra Blayze, Victoria and even Bull Nakano came before her.
She ruined her body for a gimmick . What happens when her look gets old what is she gonna do wipe them off? She was a 20-year-old kid who didn’t think about the long-term.
