Raquel Rodriguez Credits Jamie Noble For The Finish Of Street Fight With Rhea Ripley At WWE Night Of Champions

Raquel Rodriguez reflects on the finish of her match with Rhea Ripley at WWE Night Of Champions earlier this year.

At the Saudi Premium Live Event on June 28th, Raquel would face off with Rhea Ripley in a street fight bout that received much praise from WWE fans. The finish of the bout would feature Ripley hitting Rodriguez with a Riptide from the top rope while balancing on a table.

While speaking to Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown in a new interview, Raquel talked about how proud she was of the work she has done with Rhea, and how the Saudi Arabia environment made it difficult to put together the match.

“I’m always proud of the work I get to do with Rhea, just from the long relationship we’ve had as wrestlers, coworkers, friends, and tag team partners turned enemies. Every single time that we get an opportunity to work together, I think we both know that there’s pressure to level up from the matches that we’ve had previously. It was definitely hard to think of stuff, especially being in a foreign country where women, we’re not allowed to do too much. We were very contained, but for what we had on that day and what we were able to come up with, I could not be prouder of a more epic street fight with her.”

Rodriguez would continue to discuss the match with Rick Ucchino, noting that the table was originally supposed to be a plank of wood.

“That started off as a plank of wood idea, obviously we watch reels and fights from the past to like help spark creativity and get ideas. And I was watching a Street Fight between Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon… and they did a spot where they had a plank of wood on the top rope and I believe Kurt hit a German off of it. As I was standing [on the wood], I was like, nah, no way. I’m not hitting anything off of this,” Raquel said with a laugh. “Just me being six foot and already the size of the plank of the wood itself… It just was not happening. Thanks to Jamie Noble, that idea kind of curved into what it was. And it was definitely scary.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Rodriguez spoke about wanting more house shows. You can read more about that here.