In the main event of this week’s RAW, Rhea Ripley lost the Women’s World Championship to IYO SKY after shifting her focus to Bianca Belair, who was at ringside.
Ripley said the following about her loss in a backstage interview:
“How am I feeling? I’m pi$$ed off. I’m mad, I’m furious. I’m everything. Every single angry feeling, I am feeling. I should have known better. I should have known not to take my eye off the ball.
I’ve been through this crap with Liv Morgan. I’ve been through all this with Dom, I’ve been through it with Judgment Day, and I still cannot learn. I cannot learn that friends are not real. Friends are not real.
To see Bianca go out there and be a little cheerleader for IYO SKY when I thought that we were friends and we respected each other — that hit hard. We’ve literally been growing up on each side, on each brand, and just taking over. And now, everything that I wanted and everything that I worked for, it’s all taken away. And it’s all because I’m just so stupid. I’m so stupid, I’m so stupid.
Yeah. Isolated is definitely the word to use. Right when I think that I’m making friends, I screw it up. I screwed up IYO’s match with Liv Morgan and took her out of the Elimination Chamber. That’s on me. I did that. I thought I was friends with Bianca. Now, that’s possibly done with too. So isolated is the word.”
Bianca had the following to say about Rhea’s loss and post-match comments:
“I already had my spot to wrESTleMania.
So I was cheering for BOTH of yall the whole match.
And then you come and push the [sh*t] outta me.
This is childish behavior.
I swear I’m really trying to manage everything but I just feel like I’m always in some [sh*t] man… idk I feel like I’m going crazy.”
