Rhea Ripley Having Fun Teaming With IYO SKY, Not Sure If She’s Ready To Be ‘Serious Rhea Again’

Ripley is having a good time with SKY.

The current WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions are Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY. The two talents have been at odds on-screen and clashed multiple times in the ring, but they are now tag team partners.

While speaking to Raj Prashad of Uncrowned, Ripley opened up about how much fun she’s having teaming with SKY and added that she’s unsure if she’s ready to go back to the serious version of her presentation.

“I am literally going out there and I’m cheesing because IYO (SKY) just makes me cheese, and I’m like, I don’t know if I’m ready to be the serious Rhea again. Am I going to have to shift that drastically if I were to win the Royal Rumble? Which is something that obviously I want too, because I would love to go for the Women’s World Championship again. And I’ve never wrestled Stephanie (Vaquer), and then also we have Jade Cargill. So it would be a happy feeling and a sad feeling. Especially because my dream is to also have that big singles match with IYO again, and even though we’re friends, I still want to beat her ass at one point.”

SKY and Ripley are both scheduled for the 2026 women’s Royal Rumble match. The updated list of participants for the bout can be viewed here.