{"id":319241,"date":"2026-04-15T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=319241"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:35:38","slug":"wwe-wrestlemania-42-draws-duds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/wwe-wrestlemania-42-draws-duds\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE WrestleMania 42: Draws & Duds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The construct to the WWE Women’s Championship match pitting title holder Jade Cargill against Royal Rumble victor Rhea Ripley has been terrible from the beginning, and it hasn’t gotten any higher over time. Their first promo, on the March 6 edition of “WWE SmackDown” set the tone for the remainder of the feud, and never in an excellent way, making it a dud from its very beginnings.<\/p>\n

The promo was puzzling, as each women served one another with compliments about their body types, with Ripley ultimately saying her body wasn’t for show, like Cargill’s, but for practical power to win her championships. It was not a robust promo from either woman, and it left a nasty taste in a variety of fans’ mouths.<\/p>\n

The next week, after Cargill defeated Michin, she trash talked Ripley, which brought out “The Eradicator,” but once they went face-to-face, Cargill left the ring. Things only got weirder the week following, when Michin and B-Fab, who had been feuding with the champion for weeks, aligned together with her to beat down Ripley and form a brand new faction.<\/p>\n

Before all of this, Ripley and her former tag team partner, IYO SKY, went their separate ways, on good terms, so Ripley could deal with her WrestleMania opponent and singles competition. Nonetheless, SKY was brought into the feud on the April 3 edition of the show to be backup for Ripley against Cargill’s faction. Despite how loved RHIYO is as a tag team, it was beginning to seem to be SKY wasn’t going to have her own match at WrestleMania, despite being locked in a feud with the Kabuki Warriors, specifically Asuka, for quite a while. It put a damper on the ladies’s title match, as the thought simply to have SKY at ringside for Ripley at WrestleMania felt strange.<\/p>\n

That is not any fault of her own, nonetheless, as an ankle injury to Nikki Bella put things into query. Earlier reports indicated if the Bellas cannot go of their four-way match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships, the Kabuki Warriors might be inserted, so Asuka would not be free to face SKY. As of the go-home episode of “Raw,” SKY and Asuka aren’t on the cardboard, meaning SKY is prone to just corner Ripley on the “Grandest Stage of Them All.”<\/p>\n

Cargill is notably not the strongest in-ring employee, and Ripley has had to vary up her style recently. The match already wasn’t screaming “in-ring banger” from the beginning, and the actual fact their first promo was terrible didn’t help things. This match is an all-around dud, unless you are a Ripley fan, as she’s the betting favorite to capture the title from Cargill in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Written by Daisy Ruth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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