Rhea Ripley vacates WWE Women’s World Championship

Rhea Ripley has sadly needed to vacate the WWE Ladies’s World Championship attributable to an harm.

On Monday Night time Uncooked (June 15), Ripley opened the present by addressing the gang after experiences emerged over the weekend she had suffered an harm.

Showing together with her proper arm in a sling, Ripley mentioned she had been instructed she can be “caught on the bench for a couple of months” and would due to this fact must vacate the Ladies’s World Championship.

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After Ripley introduced she was vacating the championship, the gang chanted “bullshit” then “thanks Mami” in respect of Ripley’s reign.

The harm to Ripley occurred throughout a phase on final week’s version of Uncooked when she was attacked backstage by Liv Morgan.

Morgan has been on a ‘revenge tour’ since returning to WWE after she was injured by the hands of Ripley final summer time.

Following her announcement, Ripley was seen backstage together with her fellow Judgment Day members Finn Bálor, Damian Priest, and Dominik Mysterio.

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The group shared an emotional hug, after which Ripley instructed Priest and Bálor: “Take care of Dom for me.”

WWE has since introduced {that a} new Ladies’s World Champion will probably be topped on subsequent week’s Uncooked with no additional particulars given.

Ripley gained the Ladies’s World Championship at WrestleMania 39 in 2023 when she defeated Charlotte Aptitude. She is tied with Bayley because the longest-reigning Ladies’s World Champion ever.

At WrestleMania XL, she efficiently defended the championship towards Becky Lynch. Earlier this yr, Ripley headlined the Elimination Chamber PLE in her residence nation of Australia, defeating Nia Jax.

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