Rhea Ripley Names ‘Biggest Obstacle’ For WWE’s Women’s Division

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Rhea Ripley has explained what she feels has been the “biggest obstacle” for herself and the rest of WWE’s women’s roster.

On this past Friday’s SmackDown, WWE announced the introduction of the Women’s United States Championship, with the title being yet another marker of progress for women’s wrestling in WWE over the last decade.

Speaking to Jazzy’s World TV, former WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley discussed how the perception of women’s wrestling in WWE has changed, addressing the challenges in getting fans to take women’s wrestling seriously.

Ripley said:

“Being taken for granted, I think. 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 and 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 and if not harder.”

Ripley is currently sidelined from in-ring action after suffering a broken orbital bone.

Following this, The Eradicator was written off TV via a parking lot attack from Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez on the October 29 NXT.

For the latest update on Ripley’s injury status and potential return timeline follow this link here.

Transcript via Wrestlingnews.co

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