Together with her and IYO SKY currently serving because the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, it feels a secure bet that Rhea Ripley will find herself in a high profile match at WrestleMania 42 this 12 months. But with Ripley having a probability to earn a WWE Women’s Championship match this weekend at Elimination Chamber, the query has turn out to be whether it is going to be in a tag title spot, or if Ripley will likely be competing for singles gold over again.
Dave Melter believes it is going to be the latter. On Monday’s “Wrestling Observer Radio,” Meltzer and co-host were reviewing last Friday’s “SmackDown,” which notably featured WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill having a confrontation with Charlotte. That might appear to point to Charlotte and Cargill facing at WrestleMania. But while Meltzer acknowledged that direction, he still feels it is going to be Ripley as a substitute, citing Charlotte failing to qualify for the Women’s Chamber match and Ripley’s popularity as key reasons.
“It gave the impression of they’d been entering into that direction [Charlotte vs. Jade] for a very long time, but my gut, coming off this, is that they’re probably going to do Jade and Rhea Ripley,” Meltzer said. “I figure Rhea Ripley’s going to win the championship, because Rhea Ripley is so…everytime they mention the names, like, of the ladies and every thing, it’s like Rhea Ripley’s pop is, like, 3 times greater than anyone else’s, which to me means…she’s the most important star of all the ladies there. So she must have a match. After which, Liv Morgan and Stephanie Vaquer is a direction, ? After which I feel Rhea Ripley and Jade needs to be the opposite direction.”
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