superstar Rhea Ripley is as tough as they come and she’s proved it with a startling revelation about a reoccurring injury.
The current SmackDown Women’s Champion explained that while she thinks everything stayed in place during her title-winning match in April, her knee ‘always pops out’ in the ring.
‘No, my knee didn’t pop out. What happened to me? Something happened. I can’t remember what it was. It might have been my knee,’ she admitted on .
‘My knee always pops out, it’s just a reoccurring thing for me. I can never remember which matches it actually does it in.’
It may not have happened at WrestleMania, but Rhea previously revealed how her knee was dislocated during her back in January.
Entering at number one, the Judgment Day star lasted over an hour to make it to the very end and win the iconic bout, which led to her huge match with Charlotte.
Thankfully, her knee ‘went back in’, and she was able to finish the marathon effort.
“I’m obviously beat up. My knees aren’t very good in general. My knee did dislocate for a second, and then it went back in,’ she said in a press conference after the show.
‘I’m feeling good now, and because of all my emotions, I’m just excited, so I’m blocking out everything else. If anything, I can smell blood in my nose, and that’s definitely there, but my knee is good.’
Rhea actually missed four months of action last year after during a match on Raw, which was a tough period for the Australian wrestler.
Since returning to action, she has reflected on the way her Judgment Day teammates – Finn Balor, Damian Priest and Dominik Mysterio – helped keep her on track during her recovery.
Discussing how she stayed on screen as part of the group even when she wasn’t able to wrestle, she exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘It definitely helped mentally, ’cause having time off when you’re in such a busy schedule all the time, it is very weird.
‘You start questioning a lot of things, so being a part of the Judgment Day, and going out there and still supporting my boys, doing promos and all that, just being in front of the camera, still on the road – it was a good distraction.’
