Bianca Belair is very open to facing Rhea Ripley should she win the 2024 WWE Royal Rumble.
Bianca Belair is one of only five women ever to headline WrestleMania. She earned that spot when she won the 2021 WWE Royal Rumble, later defeating Sasha Banks for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship at WrestleMania 37.
This year, Belair finds herself in the Royal Rumble again and if she were to make history as the first-ever two-time Women's Royal Rumble winner, she would then get to choose who she faces at WrestleMania.
Speaking with Baby Huey on the In The Kliq podcast, "The EST of WWE" detailed her thought process between choosing to face IYO SKY for the WWE Women's Championship or choosing to face Rhea Ripley for the Women's World Championship.
If Bianca were to choose IYO, her motivation would be simple: Vengeance.
"IYO SKY, she's an amazing Champion but the title that IYO SKY is holding right now, she actually took from me and I was only able to hold that title for about 60 seconds before she cashed in on me. So I would love to get my revenge on her and get that title back and finally end this two-year-long feud that we've been going through," she said.
On the other side of that potential choice, there's Rhea Ripley. Ripley and Belair were supposed to have a match for the now-defunct WWE Raw Women's Championship at the 2022 Money in the Bank pay-per-view, but injury to Ripley stopped that from happening and they have stayed away from each other since then.
Bianca is open to facing Ripley as they have history and most recently became WWE 2K24: Deluxe Edition cover stars together. Also, Bianca believes she has the antidote for Judgment Day in her husband Montez Ford, and his stablemates, Bobby Lashley and Angelo Dawkins.
"On the other hand, you have Rhea Ripley, who is at the at the mountaintop right now. We both were on the cover of the 2K video game together. So it'd be really cool [if] we met at that mountaintop at the peak [of] WrestleMania," she said. "Then, she has Judgment Day. She has the guys in her group. Nobody has an answer for that. So if me and Rhea meet at WrestleMania and Judgment Day needs an answer to them, that's the Street Profits and Bobby Lashley. So there's so many possibilities that you could put me with the Street Profits and Bobby Lashley and we can go after Judgment Day and take them down."
Neither Ripley nor SKY is defending their respective championship at the WWE Royal Rumble event. So whoever wins the titular Battle Royal can focus on challenging either one of the two for the time being.
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