Rhea Ripley. Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Pictures
WWE’s Rhea Ripley is saying “I do.”
The previous Ladies’s World Champion — whose actual identify is Demi Bennett — has married her longtime associate, fellow Australian wrestler Buddy Matthews (actual identify Matthew Adams).
“Til demise. 🖤23.06.24,” Ripley, 27, captioned a candy picture of the blissful couple kissing on their massive day. Within the snap, the 2 wrestlers will be seen decked out in all black whereas Ripley holds a bouquet with an assortment of flowers together with black roses.
“Congrats!!!!!!” commented fellow WWE wrestler Bianca Belair.
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Dominik Mysterio, who’s Ripley’s onscreen paramour on Monday Night time Uncooked, commented beneath the submit: “🖤🖤🖤🙌”
Ripley and Matthews, 35, introduced their engagement in August 2023. “1000x YES! Pure F—king happiness! ❤️,” Ripley captioned a photograph of her kissing Matthews on the cheek and exhibiting off her engagement ring on the time.
Matthews works for rival firm All Elite Wrestling, the place he’s a former World Trios Champion. Earlier than that, he labored with Ripley in WWE beneath the stage identify Buddy Murphy. He was launched from his WWE contract in June 2021.
Earlier than his relationship with Ripley, Matthews dated former WWE Uncooked Ladies’s Champion Alexa Bliss, whose actual identify is Lexi Cabrera. She is now married to singer Ryan Cabrera.
In March, Ripley addressed the variations in success that she and Matthews have skilled in WWE, and what it’s wish to work for 2 completely different firms.
“He’s blissful for me and he is aware of how far I can go on this firm and the way far his limitations are as nicely,” Ripley advised Logan Paul on his “Impaulsive” podcast. “It’s a male-dominated sport, there’s solely so many females in it, so if you happen to actually present that you simply’re completely different and also you join with the gang in a sure means, you’re going to skyrocket to the highest.”
“He is aware of that when he was in WWE, he hit a peak there. The platform that I’m on [in WWE] is increased. I really feel like he doesn’t get threatened by that and he says doesn’t both, so I take his phrase. I belief him. I imagine him,” Ripley continued. “He’s very comfy in what he’s doing. He loves to assist me alongside the way in which and assist me develop, which is what a relationship needs to be.”
Rhea Ripley defeats Becky Lynch to retain the WWE Ladies’s World Championship throughout Night time One in all WrestleMania 40. WWE
Ripley held the WWE Ladies’s World Championship for 380 days after profitable the title from Charlotte Aptitude at WrestleMania 39 in April 2023. After efficiently defending the championship in opposition to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 40 this previous April, Ripley was pressured to relinquish her title after struggling an arm harm on the April 8 episode of Uncooked.
Throughout her reign, the Australian star, 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 predominant occasion to headline a premium WWE occasion in three years.
