Rhea Ripley recently shared her thoughts on the progress women have made in WWE and the challenges they’ve overcome. In a new interview with Jazzys World TV, Ripley was asked about the obstacles women in the company have faced and how they’ve pushed through them to reach new heights. Ripley, who is currently sidelined due to a broken orbital socket she sustained last month, reflected on the significant strides women have made in the WWE landscape.
Rhea Ripley said (h/t to Fightful):
“Being taken for granted, I think, The women in WWE, we’ve come a very, very long way. We’ve overcome a lot of obstacles that were put in the way and it’s been growing each and every year.”
“I think that was the biggest obstacle, just getting people to sort of take us seriously. For the longest time people joked about us being the toilet break, which is just plain disrespectful. Especially when the women go out there and we leave everything that we have out in the ring, and we go just as hard as the men do so don’t don’t treat us with that disrespect. So we’re making people realize that we can go just as hard as the men and if not harder.”
They definitely have come a long way.