WWE’s Rhea Ripley is pronouncing “I do.”
The former Women’s World Champion — whose real identify is Demi Bennett — has married her longtime spouse, fellow Australian wrestler Buddy Matthews (real identify Matthew Adams).
“Til dying. 🖤23.06.24,” Ripley, 27, captioned a sweet photo of the glad couple kissing on their special occasion. In the snap, the two wrestlers may also be noticed decked out in all black while Ripley holds a bouquet with an assortment of vegetation including black roses.
“Congrats!!!!!!” commented fellow WWE wrestler Bianca Belair.
Dominik Mysterio, who's Ripley’s onscreen paramour on Monday Night Raw, commented underneath the submit: “🖤🖤🖤🙌”
Ripley and Matthews, 35, introduced their engagement in August 2023. “1000x YES! Pure F—king happiness! ❤️,” Ripley captioned a photo of her kissing Matthews at the cheek and appearing off her engagement ring on the time.
Matthews works for rival company All Elite Wrestling, the place he's a former World Trios Champion. Before that, he labored with Ripley in WWE underneath the stage identify Buddy Murphy. He was launched from his WWE contract in June 2021.
Before his relationship with Ripley, Matthews dated former WWE Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, whose actual name is Lexi Cabrera. She is now married to singer Ryan Cabrera.
In March, Ripley addressed the diversities in good fortune that she and Matthews have experienced in WWE, and what it’s like to paintings for two different companies.
“He’s satisfied for me and he is aware of how a long way I will go in this company and how a ways his barriers are as neatly,” Ripley informed Logan Paul on his “Impaulsive” podcast. “It’s a male-dominated sport, there’s best so many women in it, so if you happen to truly display that you’re other and you connect to the gang in a undeniable way, you’re going to skyrocket to the highest.”
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“He is aware of that once he was once in WWE, he hit a height there. The platform that I’m on [in WWE] is higher. I feel like he doesn’t get threatened by that and he says he doesn’t both, so I take his phrase. I agree with him. I believe him,” Ripley continued. “He’s very comfortable in what he’s doing. He likes to help me alongside the way and help me grow, which is what a courting will have to be.”
Ripley held the WWE Women’s World Championship for 380 days after profitable the identify from Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 39 in April 2023. After effectively protecting the championship against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 40 this past April, Ripley was forced to relinquish her name after struggling an arm harm on the April Eight episode of Raw.
During her reign, the Australian big name, who hails from Adelaide, made historical past when she headlined WWE’s Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia. Ripley defeated Nia Jax within the first girls’s main match to headline a top class WWE match in 3 years.
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