Rhea Ripley
Nothing but respect for Io Shirai. We respect each other, we really do.Collection: Respect
Guilty pleasure - I love Falling in Reverse. Ronnie Radke is just amazing.Collection: Amazing
I am a nice human, but I've also got Italian in my family. My mom's side is Italian and my mom is a very scary human being. I get a lot of that intensity and snap straight into it from her. She's legit terrifying. Lovely girl. Lovely mother but when she gets angry, she's absolutely terrifying. She's a damn monster.Collection: Family
Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.
I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.
There's still a lot of people who don't like me, but they are now overshadowed by the people who do like me.
I love Hot Topic, it's like my No. 1 store.
At the end of the day we're humans. Treat others how you want to be treated or just be quiet.
My work ethic is don't stop until you reach the top pretty much and I put in dedication every single day of my life, I'm glad it's paying off.
I feel like once my career is all done and dusted, and I've done everything I could have possibly done, then that's my glory. Then I can live, and have a normal life, and go have kids. I love wrestling, but when that day comes, I'm going back home and I'm starting a family.
I want to see how far I can get in my career and just keep pushing myself to the limit every time and do my best pretty much.
At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.
I guess glory just means, like, knowing that I did my best and I got as far as I could.
Everyone is their own individual and if you're not happy with that then you really gotta think about yourself.
Going into work and seeing Shawn Michaels - someone I watched growing up - how many people can say that? That they get to see people like Shawn Michaels at work and that they get to learn off Shawn Michaels. To me that's insane.
There is always something coming up and I honestly want to be in NXT for a long long time.
The tattoos on my legs started because they didn't let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.
I want to make history.
I'm trying to put forward that everyone should be comfortable in their own skin and they should be happy being themselves.
I'm always learning in wrestling. It's something that you never stop learning in.
I always knew that I was destined for something big in this world.
My whole life I've had people telling me that I look like a man, I'm not feminine, I'm too masculine, all that stuff.
I just wish that people were kinder.
I just love tattoos, I don't know why! I've always loved them.
I feel like I have really bad body dysmorphia.
I had a tryout in Australia when I was 17 years old. The WWE contacted my trainers and asked who would be a few names that they would put forward for a tryout. My name was thrown in there, which I had only been wrestling for a year, and so I sent them back all my information after they emailed me and I was super excited.
Sometimes you need a confidence boost in anything you do and it's nice to get that from someone like Triple H.
Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.
I don't care how young I am, I'm going to work until I'm at the top.
Rhea is a goddess name.
The person you see in the ring is me in a mosh pit, pretty much. I am that character, I don't even like calling it a character. It's just me.
With the first Mae Young Classic, I was very young. I was 20.
I'm confident in Rhea, but not in Demi Bennett.
Social media can be very negative at times.
I went to Japan for three months and I learned a lot about strong style over there.
I don't think I can ever outgrow NXT.
Growing up in Australia I always had the long, beachy hair, that was just who I was.
My dream since being a little girl is to be the most tattooed human ever.
If the championship has to be defended, the championship has to be defended.
I feel like I have so much more to do here. Whether that's singles matches or whatever, I love NXT and I love being a part of it.
I would love to step into the ring with Mercedes. I stepped into the ring with her in Australia when I was 17 years old. To be able to step into a WWE ring with her would be incredible.
I'm proud of where NXT has come and all the girls and what they are accomplishing and how they have changed for the better.
I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.
How many people in the women's division can say they wrestled Robert Stone? Just me. To me that's cool. It doesn't always matter if you're in the title picture, you just gotta make the best of what you're given and it was fun for me.
Triple H is someone I've looked up to since I was a little girl.
I worked hard every single day to become the NXT Women's Champion, and first of all to be the first-ever person to be from NXT to defend a championship from here at WrestleMania is absolutely insane.
To be knowing that I'm going to WrestleMania 36 to face Charlotte Flair and put my NXT championship on the line is just absolutely insane.
To become the first-ever NXT U.K. Women's Champion, it's a part of history.
To think how far I've come from wrestling in little Adelaide, South Australia, to now having Triple H say nice words about me and putting me over everyone is wild.
I want to do all the pay-per-views and wrestle everyone.