Rhea Ripley ‘Felt Like She Could Do Anything’ After Muscling Charlotte Flair Up During A Spot At WrestleMania 39

Rhea Ripley recalls a move that shot her up with nerves during her WrestleMania 39 match with Charlotte Flair.

At WrestleMania 39, Ripley would meet Charlotte Flair at the event for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship after Rhea had won the Royal Rumble match earlier that year. During the match, a spot that Ripley had become known for went slightly wrong, leading Rhea to muscle Charlotte up for the spot where she would suplex Flair.

While speaking to Nina Drama in her latest Kick stream, Rhea Ripley was asked if she had nerves regarding certain moves in professional wrestling, recalling how she felt after muscling Charlotte up for one of her signature spots.

“There’s been a couple where it’s like the high-flying ones that I’ve done recently. I’ll do a little springboard into a head scissor. I’ll do (a go) around into a DDT. Them ones, I know I can do them, but I still get nervous beforehand because I don’t do them very often. But there was one move, I went into the match kind of like, bit skeptical of it, and then in the match it kind of like, fucked up a little bit, but then I managed to hit it, and it was like, against Charlotte Flair, and I used to do this thing where like, I’d stuff them in like a powerbomb, I’d grab their hands through their legs, and pop them around so they’re sitting like they’re sitting on me, and I tuck them in and pick them up for a suplex, and I hit the suplex. I remember, because she’s so long and lanky, like, her legs are just so long, and it’s like, it’s hard to do that against someone that’s tall but I remember flipping her around and I got her to sit here and I tucked her head and I went for the suplex and her legs got caught on my hips and then I’m like, ‘oh no, oh no.’ I literally, I don’t know what happened. I guess it was just adrenaline, but I somehow managed to like, bicep curl her, and shoulder press her up into the suplex, but it took like a hot minute, and you see us both like struggling, and I was like, ‘I better hit this’, because if I don’t, I’m not going to hear the end of it, and I’ve somehow hit it, I don’t know how. Dude, I felt so strong, I felt like I could do anything.”

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While attending the event to support fellow Aussie Jai Opetaia, Rhea Ripley caught up with Nina Drama for an interview on Kick. Check out the video and hear everything she had to say.#RheaRipley #TheEradicator #Mami

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Elsewhere in the same interview, Rhea spoke about almost getting a Pepsi tattoo in homage to CM Punk. You can read more about that here.

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