Rhea Ripley vows to beat 34-year-old star on next week’s Raw for the first-time-ever with WrestleMania 41 stakes on the line

Rhea Ripley is well aware of what she has on her plate next week when she takes on Iyo Sky for the Women's World Championship.

Rhea Ripley vows to beat 34-year-old star on next week’s Raw for the first-time-ever with WrestleMania 41 stakes on the line

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Next week on Raw, Rhea Ripley will put her Women’s World title on the line against a formidable Iyo Sky. This was months-in-the-making and at one point even primed to end up on the WrestleMania 41 card. Nonetheless, these women will have to be on their toes to withstand the pressure of massive implications tied to it.

To get Rhea’s final thoughts, Jackie Redmond interviewed her on Raw. The broadcaster noted that things are indeed a bit jittery for Ripley as she prepares for Sky. Redmond also mentioned that one of those six women inside the Elimination Chamber will seal a women’s title shot at WrestleMania. Acknowledging that, Mami claimed she’s completely focused on Sky right now.

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The Aussie didn’t shy away from admitting that she hasn’t been able to get the better of the Japanese grappler in singles competition. They haven’t crossed paths in an official capacity on the main roster but did mingle up during their stay in NXT, which was about five years ago. The Eradicator backed herself to turn things around based on the meteoric rise she’s had in the meantime.

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Ripley boasted about beating the likes of Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Liv Morgan. Next Monday, she’ll add Iyo to that list, vowed the former Judgment Day member. All in all, the Iyo Sky-bullet is the one to dodge for Rhea. That’s the only way she could enter WrestleMania with gold around her waist.

At WrestleMania XL, The Nightmare marched on that Lincoln Financial Field turf and outmaneuvered a veteran in Lynch. This year, the dynamics could be very different. It’d be interesting to see if Rhea comes out on top, as she claims she always does, against an equally-accomplished ‘Genius of the Sky’.

Who will defy Elimination Chamber bogey to strike WrestleMania 41 berth?

This weekend in Toronto, one among Bayley, Bianca Belair, Naomi, Liv Morgan, Roxanne Perez, and Alexa Bliss will make history. They’ll be locked inside the barbaric 20 ft tall chain-linked steel structure. But again, whoever survives that brutality will be entitled to a title shot at WrestleMania 41.

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Looking at that field, Belair is certainly one of the favorites. However, with rumors of her link to the Jade Cargill attacker mystery, the former AEW star might cost either The EST or Naomi at the PLE. Perez and Bayley could be the dark horses.

Bliss is seemingly due to advance her story with the Wyatt Sicks, so that puts her out too. Liv just became the new women’s tag team champion alongside Raquel Rodriguez on Raw this week. The duo is expected to be a staple of that division heading into WrestleMania.

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