Rhea Ripley Opens Up About Struggles And Triumphs Of WWE’s Women’s Division

Rhea Ripley has spoken out on the challenges and obstacles the women of WWE have had to overcome in the past few years to be viewed in a more serious manner.

While the women’s division is now featured a lot more prominently with main event matches and equal opportunities with their own Money in the Bank and Royal Rumble matches, previous eras have been anything but easy.

With degrading match stipulations and short match times being the norm, fans were effectively told that they would not be missing much by skipping the women’s match by going to the bar or the bathroom. Aware of the previous perception, Ripley has only been motivated further to prove the detractors wrong.

While speaking with Jazzy’s World, Ripley brought up the obstacles they have had to overcome and how in the modern era women’s matches are just as exciting as the men’s:

“The women in WWE, we’ve come a very, very long way. We’ve overcome a lot of obstacles that were put in the way, and it’s been growing each and every year. I think that was the biggest obstacle, just getting people to sort of take us seriously.

For the longest time, people joked about us being the toilet break, which is just plain disrespectful, especially when the women go out there, and we leave everything that we have out in the ring, and we go just as hard as the men do so don’t treat us with that disrespect. So, we’re making people realize that we can go just as hard as the men, if not harder.”

The former Women’s Champion also spoke about the difficulties of women’s wrestlers who want to start a family given the nature of their career, adding praise to Becky Lynch for what she accomplished after becoming a mother: