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WWE Famous person Rhea Ripley is arguably one of the common skilled wrestlers on the earth, combining a superb ring presence with a number of basic matches.
This consists of her critically-acclaimed title match towards Ladies’s World Champion Iyo Sky and Bianca Belair in addition to her current Uncooked important occasion the place she tag teamed with Sky towards Roxanne Perez and Giulia.
Regardless of her huge success, this hasn’t saved Ripley from fixed web criticism, together with followers calling her “Rhea Hogan” and questioning her success.
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Just lately, Ripley moved to close down this dialog, standing up for herself and feminine professional wrestlers around the globe on social media.
“Ladies’s wrestling fan – ‘ladies deserve higher’
(Similar breath)
– ‘she’s sleeping together with her boss that is why she’s the place she is’ Ladies’s wrestling fan (Similar breath)
– “she’s sleeping together with her boss that’s why she’s the place she is” YOU guys are…
— RheaRipley_WWE (@RheaRipley_WWE) May 14, 2025
– ‘She ought to retire’
– ‘She does not deserve it’
– ‘She’s handed all the pieces and by no means labored for something’
– ‘I hope she will get injured’
– “ladies deserve higher”
– “She ought to retire”
– “She doesn’t deserve it”
– “She’s handed all the pieces and by no means labored for something”
– “I hope she will get injured”
“YOU guys are the true purpose it is so tough to be taken severely as a ladies’s wrestler,” Ripley concluded. “If YOU put as a lot effort into your personal depressing lives as you place into degrading profitable ladies, then possibly you’ll accomplish one thing your self.”
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Followers instantly rallied round Ripley, declaring the hypocrisy of web wrestling followers and standing by ladies’s wrestling.
“Amen,” mentioned A Kenny For Your Ideas. “Too many of those silly “Rhea Hogan” and all these different insults going round. Like rattling a few of you need Ladies’s wrestling to do properly however the minute they run with somebody, it is EVERY criticism on the earth to down them.
Amen. Too many of those silly “Rhea Hogan” and all these different insults going round. Like rattling a few of you need Ladies’s wrestling to do properly however the minute they run with somebody, it’s EVERY criticism on the earth to down them.
The ladies’s divisions in a number of firms are…
— A Kenny For Your Ideas (@_kennythoughts) May 14, 2025
“The ladies’s divisions in a number of firms are hotter than they’ve ever been. FN SUPPORT WOMEN’S WRESTLING.”
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Whereas Ripley at all times finds herself on the prime of the cardboard, it isn’t with out advantage. Since arising from NXT, Ripley has had a number of wonderful performances and has made a reference to the crowds that almost all wrestlers solely dream of.
Now, Ripley has a pedigree that might already make her a Corridor of Fame candidate, successful the WWE Uncooked Ladies’s Championship, the World Ladies’s Championship twice, the NXT Ladies’s Championship, the NXT UK Ladies’s Championship, and the WWE Ladies’s Tag Staff Championship with Nikki A.S.H. (Nikki Cross).
Ripley additionally gained the Ladies’s Royal Rumble in 2023. She is the fifth Ladies’s Grand Slam Champion in WWE historical past.
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