Rhea Ripley Believes Her Heel Turn Was Important As She Was Becoming Too “Lovey-Dovey”

In recent months, Ripley has turned heel and aligned with The Judgment Day. Prior to that, Rhea was in tag teams with both Liv Morgan and Nikki A.S.H as a babyface.

In an interview with Kenny McIntosh for Inside The Ropes, Ripley was asked to describe how important the change to her character has been. 

“I think it was really important because things slowly start to get stale, and I’m always up for a change, and I’m always up for a gear change in a way as well, which I think I really needed. I was sort of in the tag division doing my own thing with Nikki A.S.H. and then Liv, and I sort of lost myself and lost that brutal streak that I had in a way as well. I was becoming too lovey-dovey and just like trying to please people again, which is what I did when I first moved to America and I was in the first-ever Mae Young Classic. So I felt myself just sort of shifting back to that, and I was like, ‘Nah. Nah, fam. I don’t want this, I don’t like this.’ So I’m just gonna be me again and be confident and be confident and be a menace and just be chaotic and brutal. So that’s where that gear change sort of just came from,”

Rhea Ripley to Inside The Ropes

Rhea and Beth Phoenix have both teased a possible match in the future.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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