Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair took place with the Raw Women’s Title on the line in Ripley’s latest title defense.
The match happend at the WWE Hell In A Cell pay-per-view event in Tampa, Florida at Yuengling Center on Peacock. The match saw Flair dominate and use some old school tactics such as hitting natural selection for 2 while using the rope as leverage. The match ended short when Ripley got herself DQ’d when she hit Flair with a piece of the announce table.
Ripley attacked Flair after the match and Flair told her that she was learning. Thus, a rematch at Money in the Bank is coming.
WWE confirmed this bout after Flair had beaten Asuka on the May 24th edition of Raw. This came after Ripley retained her Raw Women’s Championship by defeating Asuka and Charlotte in a triple threat match when Ripley pinned Asuka to win.
Flair had been pitching for a one-on-one title match with Ripley to WWE authority figures Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville. This is where Deville told Flair that if she beat Asuka then she would get the title match and that’s what happened.
WWE then did some Beat the Clock challenges to further hype this match. They both wrestled Nikki Cross in these matches.
