Raquel Rodriguez On Working With Rhea Ripley: It’s Always A Pleasure To Create Magic With Someone So Talented

Raquel Rodriguez talks her match with Rhea Ripley in Saudi Arabia.

At the end of June, WWE made their most recent trip to Saudi Arabia for their Night Of Champions Premium Live Event. Amongst the matches at the event was a street fight between Rodriguez and Ripley, with fans praising the pair following the conclusion of the bout.

While speaking to Love Wrestling in a new interview, Rodriguez was asked about her recent street fight with Rhea Ripley in Saudi Arabia.

“Saudi is always an experience every time we go to Riyadh or to Jeddah. It’s definitely something that I did have on my list to get done. Now I’ve done it about three times and every time I still, I’m honestly- I’m very happy to go. I’m happy to be over there representing WWE, representing women’s wrestling and getting to experience that culture that we don’t really see or feel around here. Getting the opportunity to have a street fight with Rhea Ripley over there was absolutely amazing. I’m not going to lie. Like I really feel that my star has catapulted since that night.  I’ve reminded everyone who Raquel Rodriguez is because I think people watch that match and they haven’t seen me do singles work like that since NXT. I got called up to SmackDown and I was put into a position to now be, this good guy, this baby face and completely kind of changed my character a little bit and then I got put into tag storylines after tag storylines, and I became a tag specialist, and that just kind of became my forte, but it kind of became what everybody just saw me as. It became the normal for what everyone saw me as.”

Rodriguez continued, noting that it’s always a pleasure to make magic with Ripley.

“So for me to go to Riyadh and to go to Saudi Arabia, where women are still not- they’re not considered to have as many rights as the women over here have and to have a street fight and to have that kind of a reaction after a street fight from not just people watching the match who know the business, but from people who’ve never seen wrestling before and watching it for the first time and hearing their reactions. I feel very honored to know that that that’s something that I’ve trained hard and doing is perfecting my craft, and that right there was my craft and I’m so glad that everybody has been able to see it and they’ve been able to be reminded of exactly what Raquel Rodriguez can do. She’s not just your very experienced six time women’s tag team champion. She is an ex NXT women’s champion. I will fight for any singles title when I get the opportunity to, and I will show up and I will show out. So just to have that chance and to be able to work with Rhea again and to step into the ring with my arch nemesis, because we all know she is my enemy for life. Um, it’s just, it’s always a pleasure. It’s always a pleasure to create magic with someone so talented.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Raquel spoke about the possibility of facing off with The Bella Twins alongside Liv Morgan. You can read more about that here.

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