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00:00Coming to us now, fresh off of a talking segment that ended in absolute pandemonium.
00:12Rhea, bloody Ripley, days removed from war games.
00:18What goes on in your head as you get yourself ready for what is the most physical, brutal, for lack of a better term, match that there is in WWE?
00:36Just mental preparation for it all.
00:40Obviously, like you just said, it is one of the most brutal matches that you could have here in the WWE.
00:45So I just need to mentally prepare and mentally get my team prepared as well.
00:51Because, look, we have myself, we have EO, we have Alexa, we have Charlotte, and we've all been inside of a war games before.
01:01But then we have AJ Lee.
01:02She's just come back and I just need to make sure that she's fully prepared for what is going to happen and what she's stepping into.
01:10So it's a dangerous match, and we just need to make sure that not only our body is prepared, but our mind is prepared as well.
01:17This match is like so crazy star-studded.
01:21And, you know, evidence of that was in the ring tonight.
01:25When you look in that ring, and you have, I mean, two generations, if not three, worth of female talent and the best maybe that the industry has seen,
01:40and you grab the mic, and you don't say a word, but the second you have that microphone in your hand, the crowd goes absolutely nuts.
01:51In that moment, do you look around, realize who you're in there with, and then realize you're the one that people want to hear from?
02:04It's wild to think of it like that, to be completely honest.
02:07And like, yeah, I did look around, but now that you say that, it is clicking a little bit more,
02:14because they did erupt when I did grab the microphone.
02:17But at the same time, I don't know if they're erupting because I'm about to speak, or they know that I'm just unpredictable, and anything could happen.
02:24The crowd seems smarter than the team that we were in there with, actually, because they were ready for anything.
02:30And Nia Jax definitely wasn't ready for a microphone to the face, so.
02:35No, but who is?
02:36Rhea, you were just talking about how you have to make sure that AJ Lee is ready for war games,
02:44because she's never been in a war games match before.
02:47We saw you last week on Raw, asking AJ for a minute to talk to her.
02:53What made you want to go after AJ Lee for your war games team?
03:00Growing up, I watched AJ Lee.
03:03I loved watching AJ Lee.
03:04She was one of my favorites, for sure.
03:06I thought she was amazing at what she did, especially for the size that she is.
03:12She's scrappy.
03:14She doesn't give up.
03:16And I like that fire inside of her that I know she has.
03:21And seeing her come back and tag with her husband, CM Punk, against Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch, I could see that fire was still there.
03:29So I knew that we needed a fifth member.
03:31I know that I need someone that can hang in this kind of match.
03:37And everything that I've seen her accomplish throughout her run in the WWE before when I was growing up, she accomplished so much.
03:46And she really wasn't set up to accomplish that much.
03:49But she fought and she scratched and she clawed and she was determined.
03:52And she got to the point that she got to.
03:55And that's what I want to see.
03:57And I know that it's there.
03:58And that's why I want her on my team.
04:01I want that scrappy.
04:03I want that fight.
04:04I want people to second-guess her because of her size and then realize that she is a lot tougher than what they think she is.
04:14She's unpredictable.
04:15And I love that.
04:17What is the atmosphere like with all of you?
04:21What is the feeling?
04:22Because I'm sure that at this point in your career, you feel like you are the number one person in the WWE women's division.
04:30I'm also pretty sure that that's how Charlotte feels.
04:33I'm also pretty sure that AJ Lee did not come back to not be the number one woman in the women's division and so on and so on.
04:39Every time I turn on the internet, somebody's talking about how EO is the best women's wrestler on the planet, period.
04:47How does that competition that has to exist amongst you guys kind of show itself when you get ready for a match like this?
04:55I think everyone in this women's division thinks that they are the best at what they do, like you just said.
05:01And it's not only just my team.
05:04It's our opposing team as well.
05:06The difference is our opposing team, as you've seen tonight, they might not be on the same page with everything.
05:14They might still be taking jabs at each other and not trusting each other, where our team, the only people that didn't fully trust each other was me and Charlotte.
05:26And for now, we have settled our problems.
05:31We know that when I first came to Raw, I wanted to prove myself and I wanted to be the best.
05:40And I had always looked up to someone like Charlotte Flair and I knew that she was one of the top dogs, if not the top dog.
05:46So I took a leap and it was like a sink or swim situation.
05:52And obviously, Charlotte being Charlotte, she fought back.
05:54So that's where our beef pretty much started.
05:56And that's the whole reason that we had beef was because we wanted to be the best and we wanted to prove to everyone, not just ourselves and each other, but everyone that we were the best.
06:07But right now, we've discussed strategy.
06:10We have talked it out and we are on the same page.
06:14And that's a really dangerous combination for the other team.
06:18So I think that going into this, yes, we do all still think that we are the best, but we are also willing to put our egos aside for the common denominator here.
06:29And that is to win war games and beat the other team.
06:33And I think that's why we have the advantage.
06:35You talk about dangerous situations.
06:38And I mean, you can't overlook the powerhouses on the other side of the ring and Nia Jax and Lash Legend and Lash.
06:48I mean, she's made a statement ever since she came up to the main roster.
06:51When you're going up against opponents like Nia and Lash, what kind of threat does that pose to your war games team?
06:59I mean, it shows for itself.
07:03They're forces to be reckoned with and we're going to have to be careful with what we do with them and be very strategic with what we do and how we think.
07:13I've had many run-ins with Nia Jax in the past and I feel like I know her pretty well these days.
07:21So we're all going to have to come together and just strategize.
07:24Then there's Lash Legend.
07:26She's new and she's someone that we don't really know right now.
07:31So that's a little bit worrying in the back of my head.
07:36But at the same time, I also know how it feels to be in her situation and be the new person.
07:41Like I just said, you are trying to prove that you are the best.
07:45And sometimes that just doesn't work out in a team setting.
07:49So she can be all buddy-buddy with Nia Jax right now.
07:52But I don't know where their alliance lies since it is built on them hating each other, which could be an advantage for us.
08:04What do you think it is about Charlotte Flair that you are kind of cosmically connected to in terms of career?
08:11Because you're right.
08:12I mean, when you think about this rivalry that you guys have had and the story that you guys have had,
08:16it's really the story of your entire main roster career.
08:20I mean, coming up and thinking that this is now my time.
08:24I've done what I'm going to do in NXT.
08:25Now it's time to just dominate on the main roster.
08:28And maybe it wasn't quite time for that yet.
08:31Maybe Charlotte was the one to remind you of that.
08:33Then when it is time, Charlotte is still the one a couple of years later that you have to get through.
08:39And now that you're both at this place where you are two of the top stars in WWE,
08:45regardless of gender or any other qualification, you still end up in the same match together on the same show.
08:56What is that link?
08:58You know, I've been asking myself that question as well.
09:04And it's hard to pinpoint exactly what that link is because I was just an upbeat upstart,
09:14just wanting to make a name for herself and take down the best.
09:17But I was obviously, it just wasn't my time.
09:22And Charlotte reminded me that it wasn't my time.
09:26And then I tried again and she put me back in my place.
09:29But each time that she put me back in my place, I kind of learnt.
09:34Well, I didn't learn a little bit.
09:35I learned a lot from her, actually.
09:37And that got me to the point when we met again at WrestleMania 39.
09:41And then I finally proved to her that I had been learning throughout those years.
09:47And I had been putting that into play.
09:51So I feel like for us, the strive to be the best and want to prove ourselves and not just
10:00make a little bit of history, but make all the history and make a full name for yourself
10:08where your legacy is set in the lights here in the WWE.
10:11I feel like that's what makes us so similar.
10:14She wanted to achieve so much greatness and kind of make a name for herself away from
10:22the Flair name, away from her father, where me, I didn't have a family member here, but
10:27I was striving.
10:29A little girl from Adelaide, South Australia, I wanted to make it here.
10:32I wanted to make a name for myself.
10:34I wanted the name Rhea Ripley to live on within the WWE forever.
10:38I think just that drive and that passion and that determination to make a name for yourself
10:45is what makes Charlotte and I so similar in a way.
10:49No, it makes perfect sense.
10:51And there are a lot of ways to get that goal that you're describing, that goal to be the
10:56best, that goal to like make a dent in the industry that you're in.
11:00And one of those ways is in the ring and another way is by monopolizing and dominating the conversation.
11:08And I think that Becky Lynch has figured out a way that no matter what is going on, that
11:16the world is going to talk about what she's doing.
11:19She's been doing it all over social media.
11:21She, I mean, you, you said it yourself, but the whole promo building up the war games team
11:28that's opposing you was just Becky Lynch talking and then Becky Lynch talking about everybody
11:33else on the team.
11:34And it works.
11:35I mean, when you're not talking about what Becky Lynch is doing on the show, you're talking
11:38about what Becky Lynch is doing on Twitter and Instagram.
11:41Is there a part of you that when you see that part of it, because that's a part of the
11:46business as well, that you go, oh no, I need to get louder on social media.
11:51Because Becky Lynch is sucking up all the attention in the room.
11:55Look, Becky's a talker.
11:57She is a yapper.
12:00She's a barker.
12:02Right.
12:02Where I'm a fighter.
12:04That's what I do.
12:06Social media is social media.
12:08But at the end of the day, it is.
12:12Such.
12:13A small group of individuals that believe in that hype.
12:19And at the end of the day, they can fight back on Twitter and they can fight back on
12:25Instagram and they can make videos and they can do all this social media bull crap.
12:32But at the end of the day, when you step in the ring, what are they going to do?
12:35Are they going to talk or are they going to fight?
12:36I'm here to fight.
12:40We're stepping into war games.
12:41You can't talk your way out of this.
12:43You can't yap your way out of this.
12:47AJ said it best.
12:48She's a little chihuahua.
12:50She's a small dog that has a loud bark.
12:52And yes, she can get scrappy sometimes and she's strategic and and she can definitely
12:59work her way out of situations.
13:01But she's not working her way out of war games, because if you work your way out of
13:06war games, you're disqualified.
13:08You lose.
13:09Your team loses.
13:10So you can run if you want and continue yapping.
13:12But at the end of the day, my team, we're all fighters.
13:15So we're here to fight.
13:16But like Billy Kidman's music said in the Ruthless Aggression Era, you can run if you
13:21want to, but you can't hide now.
13:23I'm assuming that means that you're not coming up with nicknames.
13:28You're more concentrating on the on the fighting aspect of war games.
13:33The cute nicknames is not your priority.
13:36Yeah, I mean, we've already got our cute nickname sorted, so we don't need to worry
13:39about that anymore.
13:40No, no, I guess not.
13:42By the way, I do want to also say congratulations, because speaking of social media, I was
13:46looking, and I saw that there is even, they are furthering the merchandise collaboration
13:50line between you and Art the Clown and Terrifier, and as a very public fan of Rhea Ripley and
13:58a very public fan of the Terrifier franchise, to see these two worlds come together, it warms
14:04my heart.
14:06It's wild, dude.
14:06It's so cool.
14:07This is literally like, it's so weird, because I'm literally living my dream right now.
14:12Like, I'm here in the WWE.
14:14I'm accomplishing things that I've dreamt of as a kid, and I am now like, I know David,
14:21I know Art, I know Damien, I know all of them, and now I have my own collaboration with
14:25Terrifier and Art the Clown, and it's just like, all my wildest dreams are kind of coming
14:30true.
14:32So yeah, I'm just so excited, and I love that it's a little Christmas edition, too.
14:36Especially because I had the idea of making Christmas shirts for the Judgment Day back
14:42in the day, and I thought that was awesome, and we put little hats on the photo, and it
14:46sold really well.
14:47And then this year, I didn't even have to ask.
14:49They just made Rhea Ripley Terrifier Christmas shirts, and it was just a dream come true.
14:56And I got to tell you how into it they are.
14:58Nobody knew I was going to bring that up, because I literally just thought of it, because
15:00I saw it earlier today, and I was like, that's awesome.
15:03They put a graphic, they had a graphic ready.
15:04They put a graphic right on the screen, as we're talking about it.
15:06It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
15:09Everyone's ready for Mommy Terrifier.
15:11Let's go.
15:11They really are.
15:13They really are.
15:14I love it.
15:16Well, Rhea, I can't wait.
15:18I can't wait to see it all go down.
15:19I can't wait for War Games.
15:20Do you feel, are you going to take, are you going to have to use the face mask to compete
15:25in War Games, or will it be off by the time you get to War Games?
15:28I will have to wear it during this War Games match, and I will probably have it on the
15:33entire time, unless someone takes it off forcibly.
15:37My nose is somewhat healed, but it's still not fully healed, so I will be wearing it.
15:43But I also will be doing it up, just like I did last year.
15:47So I can't wait to show everyone exactly what my mask looks like.
15:51Plus, that's great, because action figure opportunities.
15:53Oh, yes.
15:54We'll get a new Rhea Ripley action figure.
15:57It's going to be great.
15:58Rhea Ripley, you're the best.
15:59I cannot wait for War Games.
16:01I cannot wait to see it all go down.
16:04We'll be watching.
16:07Hell yeah.
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