Summary

Rhea Ripley reflected on a difficult in-ring moment from her WrestleMania 39 match with Charlotte Flair and said she powered through it in real time.

The source text says Ripley challenged Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship after winning the Royal Rumble earlier that year.

Ripley explained that a signature transition into a suplex went off timing during the match, but she still completed it through a visible struggle.

She said pulling it off gave her a major adrenaline boost and left her feeling like she could do anything.

Rhea Ripley says WrestleMania 39 recovery spot reinforced her in-match confidence

Rhea Ripley describing how she adjusted mid-sequence against Charlotte Flair highlights the value of live problem-solving, because she turned a near-miss into a completed signature moment under pressure.

Her account also reinforces why that WrestleMania 39 performance remains a defining reference point in her ring identity, with confidence built from executing through adversity.

Quotes

Quote from Rhea Ripley

“There’s been a couple where it’s like the high-flying ones that I’ve done recently. I’ll do a little springboard into a head scissor. I’ll do (a go) around into a DDT. Them ones, I know I can do them, but I still get nervous beforehand because I don’t do them very often. But there was one move, I went into the match kind of like, bit skeptical of it, and then in the match it kind of like, fucked up a little bit, but then I managed to hit it, and it was like, against Charlotte Flair, and I used to do this thing where like, I’d stuff them in like a powerbomb, I’d grab their hands through their legs, and pop them around so they’re sitting like they’re sitting on me, and I tuck them in and pick them up for a suplex, and I hit the suplex. I remember, because she’s so long and lanky, like, her legs are just so long, and it’s like, it’s hard to do that against someone that’s tall but I remember flipping her around and I got her to sit here and I tucked her head and I went for the suplex and her legs got caught on my hips and then I’m like, ‘oh no, oh no.’ I literally, I don’t know what happened. I guess it was just adrenaline, but I somehow managed to like, bicep curl her, and shoulder press her up into the suplex, but it took like a hot minute, and you see us both like struggling, and I was like, ‘I better hit this’, because if I don’t, I’m not going to hear the end of it, and I’ve somehow hit it, I don’t know how. Dude, I felt so strong, I felt like I could do anything.”

Sources

As reported by Fightful.