Rhea Ripley weighs in on her biggest career jeopardy before WWE Evolution
Rhea Ripley's health scare is back. After a close call at WrestleMania 41, your favorite 'Eradicator' is now fighting a huge uncertainty over her brewing Women's World Championship title defense match against IYO SKY.
The WWE Evolution is inching closer with Ripley gasping over some health boost. The blame goes to her off-screen friend and on-screen foe, Raquel Rodriguez! Let's just hark back to that brutal back-body drop onto the announcer's table at
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NXT New Year's Evil 2021! Breathtaking yet commendable!
Just the way it should be. After all, Mami's resilience speaks through her performance despite having lasting aches and pains.
But she has a confession to make.
A nagging back injury from WWE NXT days still keeps Rhea Ripley on her toes
Speaking from a point of raw human view with no monster muscle memory, Ripley came clean on her legit insecurity.
''I think it actually started from the match I had with Raquel in NXT, where she gave me the back body drop onto the announcement table, but we undershot it,"
the former Judgment Day member said in a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet.
"I hit the very edge of the table, right on my lower back.
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After that, my lower back was just never the same."
Sure, Mami is not foreign to the grueling injuries, the darkest reality behind the glint of a squared circle. She has her own coping mechanism to fight the drawbacks. Ripley credited her personal masseuse for helping her manage to show up at WrestleMania 41.
'Matthew, come over and he works on it. He helps stretch me out, and puts my hips back in line pretty much,'
Ripley shared,
'and just fixes all that.
And thank God for him that he comes over to help."
Matthew helped her to be able to wrestle that night. Even though Iyo Sky defended her title with an electric win over Ripley and Bianca Belair, the 28-year-old thanked the almighty to just perform to the best of her ability. But the main pain in the neck is the issue persists. After WrestleMania, but since Rhea started to wrestle more, slowly adjusting her body to the risks and tears, her back started to act up again.
She didn't stretch on her own, something the fan-favorite WWE diva didn't even try to cover up with an excuse.
''It's just slowly tightened up, but that's because I just don't stretch on my own, so that's my fault as well. It gets really bad,''
Ripley spoke out her underlying fear
, ' I don't know if it's a sciatic thing or whatnot, or just my body in itself, the shape of my body and how I'm put together.'
All you can do now is to keep your fingers crossed and wait with bated breath to watch the beast in her full power on July 14.
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