WWE Ladies’s World Champion Rhea Ripley did her greatest imitation of professional wrestling legend Rikishi throughout a reside occasion on Saturday evening in a match towards Nia Jax and Shayna Bazler, and it caught the eye of her fiancée.
Again within the WWE Hall of Famer’s prime, Rikishi would hit opponents with the “stink face” – placing his rear finish within the face of just about anybody who could be dazed within the nook of the ring.
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Rhea Ripley appears to be like on throughout WWE Monday Night time RAW at Toyota Heart on March 11, 2024 in Houston. (Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Photographs)
Ripley, the RAW girls’s champion, carried out the identical transfer on Jax. Her fiancée, All Elite Wrestling star Buddy Matthews, had a cheeky response.
“Weekly occurrence for me,” he wrote on X.
She gained the match over Jax and Baszler.
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Becky Lynch, left, meets Rhea Ripley face-off on stage through the WWE Wrestlemania XL Kickoff on Feb. 8, 2024, at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/PXimages/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)
Ripley and Matthews started relationship in 2022 and obtained engaged in August 2023. Matthews was with the WWE from 2013-2021 and joined AEW in 2022 to group up with professional wrestlers often known as Malakai Black and Brody King and shaped the Home of Black faction.
Ripley is on her street to WrestleMania 40 and is scheduled to defend her Ladies’s World Championship towards Becky Lynch. Ripley has been the ladies’s champion for practically a 12 months after defeating Charlotte Aptitude at WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles in 2023.
She has not been concerned in a loss since she teamed up with Dominik Mysterio to go up towards Dragon Lee and Lyra Valkyria in a tag-team match at Heatwave.
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Rhea Ripley, WWE Ladies’s World Champion, greets the followers and the press through the WWE WrestleMania XL Kickoff on Feb. 8, 2024, at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/PXimages/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)
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Her final title protection got here in a win over Jax at Elimination Chamber in her dwelling nation of Australia.
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