Match Spotlight: Rhea Ripley Vs. Charlotte Flair, WWE WrestleMania 39

With the victory, Ripley became the seventh Women’s Triple Crown champion in company history, and the fifth Women’s Grand Slam Champion. At 26-years-old, Ripley would also be the youngest Grand Slam Champion, of either division, in WWE.

While the crowd seemed quiet toward the beginning of the match, they really got into it with the Riptide into the DDT counter sequence. As of this writing, the match currently has a 9.10 rating on Cagematch, with 1,180 votes, 460 of them calling the bout a 10/10. The women earned 4.75 stars from Dave Meltzer in The Wrestling Observer.

Ripley may have won the gold and set records, but her breakout with fans really came down to her storyline with Mysterio, Judgment Day, and Liv Morgan, who seduced Mysterio while “Mami” was on the shelf.

“The Eradicator” defended the title plenty of times over the course of the next year plus, including against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 40. Her reign ended at 380 days, however, due to injury after she was attacked in a backstage segment by Morgan, kicking off their aforementioned storyline that would see Ripley become a megastar.

As for Flair, she would go on to challenge Asuka for the WWE Women’s Championship in the following months, never winning gold, and would unfortunately suffer a major knee injury in December, which put her on the shelf until the 2025 Royal Rumble. Flair returned to win the Rumble, her second time winning the bout, but failed to capture the WWE Women’s Championship from Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41.

While they’ve wrestled in tag team matches alongside their respective partners, IYO SKY alongside Ripley and Alexa Bliss with Flair, they have not met in singles action since their WrestleMania 39 battle.

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