Rhea Ripley made her presence felt last week, reintroducing herself on Raw and issuing a WrestleMania challenge to Asuka.
Asuka accepted, setting up a match against Ripley at WrestleMania 37 for the Raw women’s championship. There is even more at stake than the title for Ripley. The 24-year-old Australian Demi Bennett wants to dominate WWE programming, and the first step is to entrench herself as the signature star of the company’s flagship show.
“My goal is to become the face of Monday Night Raw,” Ripley says. “I accomplished a lot in NXT.