Rhea Ripley: This Business Isn’t A Place Where You Can Be Super Selfish, It’s A Team Effort
Rhea Ripley is encouraging team effort in WWE.
For better and for worse, current and past wrestlers will often preach about all of the differences between today’s era and other periods of wrestling history. Rhea Ripley joined that crowd in a new interview with Shakiel Mahjouri, saying that the wrestling business is not a place for a selfish mindset.
“I feel like we’ve gotten to a point in this industry where yeah, it is kind of about working together. Back in the day, I see why there was so many arguments and so many people not getting along in fights, because everyone was pretty much out there for themselves trying to succeed. This business, it’s not really somewhere where you can be super selfish. It’s a team effort. You have to go out there and you have to work as a team. For me, I feel like I’m a good representation of that because I’m always there to try and help the person I’m in the ring with. I try and vouch for them whenever I can. I’ve been able to get myself to this spotlight where I am now looked at as one of the top women, if not the top woman here in WWE. My job is to now bring everybody else up because I’m going to need some competitors that I can step in the ring with and it look like a real fight.”
After talking about her recent match with Giulia, Ripley noted that there is no point in making your opponents or peers look bad.
“You go back and you watch my match with Giulia, Giulia is new to the main roster but she’s been at this for a long time. She hasn’t been given many big opportunities in WWE yet. Yes, she might be the champion, but she’s also hasn’t been given long matches on the main roster and that spotlight to really show that she can shine. So, I’m gonna go out there and bust my ass and try and make her look good and hopefully that opens up some more opportunities. It’s a team effort at the end of the day and I think some people forget that. I like to say it like this — if you make your opponent look like a piece of shit, if you lose to them, you lost to a piece of shit. If you win against them, congratulations, you beat a piece of shit, well done. There’s no point. You have to make each other look good.”
In a separate interview, Rhea Ripley talked about wanting to secure a deal with Vans. Check out her full comments here.
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