{"id":143532,"date":"2022-07-25T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=143532"},"modified":"2022-07-25T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:16:18","slug":"former-wwe-womens-champion-returns-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/former-wwe-womens-champion-returns-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WWE Women&#8217;s Champion returns to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3601793375\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Rhea Ripley has returned to WWE. She&#8217;s been absent from the company with an undisclosed injury since helping Finn Balor and Damian Priest eliminate Edge from The Judgement Day.<\/p>\n<p>Ripley returned on this week&#8217;s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/7-25-wwe-monday-night-raw-results-kellers-report-on-first-post-vince-mcmahon-era-raw-with-paul-levesque-in-charge-reigns-wrestles\/\">Monday Night Raw<\/a>. Ripley appeared backstage and interrupted Rey Mysterio&#8217;s 20th anniversary party with his family. Ripley attacked Rey and pulled Dominik into a nearby hallway. Rey ran out to make the save, but was jumped by Priest and Balor who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/7-25-wwe-raw-results-doucettes-alt-perspective-report-on-summerslam-hype-reigns-usos-vs-riddle-profits-drew-vs-theory-more\/\">put him through a table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow really, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RheaRipley_WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RheaRipley_WWE<\/a>?!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWERaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2UDiKQMoy\">pic.twitter.com\/t2UDiKQMoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1551743625381511168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rhea Ripley was slated to challenge Bianca Belair for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWE<\/a> Raw Women&#8217;s Championship at the Money in the Bank PPV event earlier this month. Ripley was removed from the match due to her injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ripley is a former NXT Women&#8217;s Champion and became Raw Women&#8217;s Champion after beating Asuka at WrestleMania 37 in 2021.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/triple-h-creative-change-gets-positive-feedback-from-television-partner\/\">Triple H creative change gets positive feedback from television partner<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-107500825\"><div id=\"pwtor-1426503454\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rhea Ripley has returned to WWE. She&#8217;s been absent from the company with an undisclosed injury since helping Finn Balor and Damian Priest eliminate Edge from The Judgement Day. Ripley returned on this week&#8217;s episode <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/former-wwe-womens-champion-returns-to-wwe\/\" title=\"Former WWE Women&#8217;s Champion returns to WWE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":90729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[240,96,6446,71],"class_list":["post-143532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-monday-night-raw","tag-raw","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.39.27-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143535,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143532\/revisions\/143535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}