Rhea Ripley On Her Heel Turn: It Was Really Important, I Was Becoming Too Lovey-Dovey

Rhea Ripley says her character change has allowed her to be herself again; she discusses her heel turn.

Rhea Ripley says her character change has allowed her to be herself again.

In recent months, Ripley has turned heel and aligned with The Judgment Day. This persona is a stark contrast from the version of the former champion fans had been seeing on Raw; she was a babyface for a number of months, and she had been teaming up with Nikki A.S.H. and Liv Morgan.

In an interview with Kenny McIntosh for Inside The Ropes, Ripley was asked to describe how important the change to her character has been. She emphasized that she likes keeping things fresh, and she wanted to get back on track after she lost her “brutal streak” during her run in the tag team division.

“I think it was really important because things slowly start to get stale, and I’m always up for a change, and I’m always up for a gear change in a way as well, which I think I really needed. I was sort of in the tag division doing my own thing with Nikki A.S.H. and then Liv, and I sort of lost myself and lost that brutal streak that I had in a way as well. I was becoming too lovey-dovey and just like trying to please people again, which is what I did when I first moved to America and I was in the first-ever Mae Young Classic. So I felt myself just sort of shifting back to that, and I was like, ‘Nah. Nah, fam. I don’t want this, I don’t like this.’ So I’m just gonna be me again and be confident and be confident and be a menace and just be chaotic and brutal. So that’s where that gear change sort of just came from,” Ripley said.

Beth Phoenix recently discussed potentially facing Ripley in a match. You can check out her comments by clicking here.

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