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Rhea Ripley Shares Views on Having Kids with Future Husband Buddy Matthews
Rhea Ripley is currently dominating the WWE’s Raw Brand. This Australian wrestler made the mark in WWE by becoming the inaugural NXT UK Women’s…
Rhea Ripley is currently dominating the WWE’s Raw Brand. This Australian wrestler made the mark in WWE by becoming the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion and later seizing the NXT Women’s Championship.
With a very successful career, this wrestler also has a successful love life. She is engaged to fellow Australian wrestler Matthew Adams, whom she started dating in 2022.
Amidst the marriage plans, Ripley talked about pregnancy and kids in a recent podcast episode of IMPAULSIVE by Jake Paul. On March 27, IMPAULSIVE posted a video titled Rhea Ripley’s Relationship w/ Dom Mysterio, Fighting Her Fiancé, Getting Stalked by WWE Fans: 412, where she talks about various things for over an hour.
In this YouTube video, she talks about WrestleMania vs Becky Lynch, ranking Top 4 Women’s stars, wrestling with nipple piercings, and more. While discussing different topics, Paul asked her if she ever wanted to have kids.
To this, Ripley replied, “One day, yeah,” implying that she had thought about getting pregnant. Paul then leads the conversation asking her how she would wrestle when she’s pregnant.
The wrestler nonchalantly commented, “Well, I wouldn’t wrestle while I was pregnant because you’ll end up killing the poor thing.” In a lighter tone, they quipped about whether anyone had ever wrestled while pregnant, suggesting it might have happened accidentally.
“One day I would like little me’s little body Matthews running around. They’re going to annoy the crap out of me but I’m gonna get everything I dished out as a kid,” Ripley continues.
She was then asked if she wanted her kids to be legacy wrestlers, to which she replied “Umm, yes and no. I don’t know I feel like I would love that just to keep the name going and have that massive family line in hopefully WWE. At the same time, I also know what goes into this profession how hard it is, and how taxing it is on your body and your mind and I don’t know if I want that for my kids or not. Like I do but I don’t. It’s so amazing on the other side of things but it also takes a lot outta you. But I guess we’ll see down the line.”
Rhea Ripley also talks about her partner in the podcast
While talking about various topics on the podcast IMPAULSIVE, Ripley also shares some details about her soon-to-be husband, Adams. Paul posed a question, inquiring, “You’re a prominent figure in the industry, which could potentially challenge some men’s egos if their partner achieves greater success. Does he find it difficult to cope with? Is it motivating for him? Does he embrace it?”
To this, the wrestler replied, “He loves it. He doesn’t make him feel a certain negative sort of way. He’s happy for me and he also knows how far I can go in this company and how far his limitations are as well.”
Rhea Ripley with fiancee Matthew Adams during Halloween (Source: Instagram)
While discussing it, she also discussed the reality of wrestling being male-dominated and acknowledged the limited opportunities for women in the sport. “So if you show you’re different and connect with the crowd in a certain way, you’re gonna skyrocket to the top,” she says.
Ripley then talked about her husband, stating, “Whereas for him, he has been in the WWE, he’s been wrestling for over 10 years, maybe 15 years… for a long long time. At the end of the day, the platform that I’m on is higher and I feel like he doesn’t get threatened by that.”
The wrestler also said that her fiancée reassures her that he doesn’t get threatened by her popularity and she trusts him. She also reveals that he helps her grow along the way and it is what a relationship should be like.
Who is Rhea Ripley’s fiancée, Matthew Adams?
Adams goes by his ring name, Buddy Matthews, and is a professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He was previously in WWE as Buddy Murphy and assigned to developmental territory NXT.
He made his debut in AEW on the February 23, 2022, episode of Dynamite alongside Malakai Black and Brody King of the House of Black. Following his impactful debut, AEW president Tony Khan announced his signing with the company.
Some of his notable victories include winning a trios match at Revolution’s buy-in-show against Death Triangle on March 5, 2023, defeating The Elite. However, they experienced defeat in August 2023 against The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn.
Adams and Ripley have a very great bond and often show it via social media. On February 9, 2023, Adams posted a picture of them together in the gym captioning “Couples that workout together… stays together! Couples that take over the world… take it together!”
This isn’t all! They are often seen spending quality time together during festivals and other occasions. They are expected to marry sometime in 2024.