Rhea Ripley: Judgment Day helped my career ‘more than I can actually put into words’

  • Ian Carey
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Rhea Ripley says she was sad when the original Judgment Day broke up but also enjoys “absolutely brutalizing” this new version of the group.

Ripley was a guest on The Wrestling Classic recently and was asked about her time in the faction coming to an end.

“The Judgment Day was really family to me, like it really was,” Ripley said. “It has helped my career so much more than I can actually put into words cause I feel like that was when I started opening up and feeling comfortable going out there in front of the crowd because I had the boys that I could fall back on. So it was really emotional for me.”

David Shoemaker of the Ringer noted on his podcast recently that one member of Judgment Day was “breaking up” and shedding tears backstage due to the group’s breakup. Ripley says that was her.

“I’m not ashamed of it, that was me, I was upset,” Ripley continued. “I was like, the last two and a half years of my life is going to be… like it’s changed now. I can’t go back to that. They were my boys, they were my family, and it was really sad but at the same time, when something so good comes to an end, the other side of it is that something amazing is about to start as well. And I wasn’t really thinking about that because I was just so emotional. Yeah, that was the most fun that I’ve had in my career in a long time. I felt invincible. I felt like I could go out there and just be a cheeky little menace and get away with it, for real, and have fun with my friends.”

Ripley has only wrestled once since Dominik Mysterio turned on her and aligned with Liv Morgan at SummerSlam. Her and Damian Priest defeated Morgan and Dominik at Bash in Berlin and now Ripley will get a rematch with Morgan on October 5 at Bad Blood.

“I loved my time with the Judgment Day, but I feel like now I’m loving my time absolutely brutalizing the Judgment Day. They’re not the real Judgment Day, they’re street trash,” Ripley concluded.

Ripley’s full appearance on The Wrestling Classic is available below: