Rhea Ripley is the wrestler who proved WWE could build a women’s division around an archetype it had spent forty years avoiding: a tall, heavy-hitting heel who beats opponents rather than out-athletes them. The concrete measure is the trophy cabinet. ALL 5championships in the WWE women’s Grand Slam set — the full trophy cabinet, completed at 26She has held all five championships in the WWE women’s Grand Slam set — NXT UK Women’s, NXT Women’s, the Raw/WWE Women’s Championship lineage, the SmackDown/Women’s World Championship lineage and the Women’s Tag Team Championship — and completed the set at 26, the fifth woman to do it. Her WrestleMania 41 triple threat with Iyo Sky and Bianca Belair drew five stars from Dave Meltzer, and she is the first Australian woman to hold a championship in WWE.
4sources publish four different debut dates — genuinely unsettled, all listed in the tapeShe was born Demi Bennett in Adelaide, South Australia on October 11, 1996 and came up through the Australian independents — two Riot City Wrestling Women’s Championship reigns, tours of Japan in 2015 for Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Sendai Girls. Her debut date is genuinely unsettled; four sources publish four answers, listed in the tape. She signed with WWE in 2017, wrestled the inaugural Mae Young Classic, and was renamed on July 13, 2017 after the Greek goddess Rhea and Ellen Ripley of Alien. The breakout was NXT UK, where she became the inaugural champion, then NXT, then the Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 37. The run that made her a headliner started in May 2022 when she joined The Judgment Day: the 2023 Royal Rumble won from the number-one entry, the first singles win over Charlotte Flair in a WrestleMania match, and 380 days on top.
She is currently the WWE Women’s Champion and currently unable to defend it. She took the title from Jade Cargill at WrestleMania 42 on April 19, 2026, moved to SmackDown with it, retained against Cargill at Clash in Italy in Turin on May 31, and has not wrestled since. WWE did not vacate the championship — several outlets reported that it did, and they are wrong. Instead the company created an Interim WWE Women’s Championship, won by Chelsea Green in a five-woman ladder match at SummerSlam Night 2 on August 2, 2026, with a unification match promised once Ripley is medically cleared. The injury itself is reported two irreconcilable ways, both set out in the FAQ below, and no return date has been announced.
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The Record
4×World title reigns
8WWE title reigns
380Longest reign (days)
7thWomen’s Triple Crown
5thWomen’s Grand Slam
1×Royal Rumble win
Fourteen documented bouts — the title changes, the WrestleMania matches and the nights that turned the character. This is a highlight subset, not a complete career ledger, and no career win–loss total is published here: the previous edition of this page carried a 71–22 headline that the harvester flags as inconsistent with its own sparkline (66 marks, five losses), and Cagematch was excluded from research as JavaScript-gated. One harvested bout was dated only “Various” and is dropped rather than given a guessed date; one row leaves the opponent unnamed because no source consulted named her. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.
Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed
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Signature Matches
Three cards, and their provenance differs — which is the point. Only the WrestleMania 41 rating is sourced: Dave Meltzer gave the triple threat five stars, reported by Wrestlezone, and the research file identifies it as the highest-rated women’s match on his scale. The other two ratings are carried over from the previous edition of this page and are not corroborated by any source in the file. They are kept because the bouts are real; the numbers beside them are not independently verified.
5.0★★★★★
WrestleMania 41 Night 2 · April 20, 2025
vs Iyo Sky & Bianca Belair
Women's World Championship — triple threat (Meltzer, sourced)
Eight WWE championship reigns across five belts, plus two independent reigns whose dates are not verified. Read the lineage notes before counting: her WrestleMania 42 win over Jade Cargill is her second WWE Women’s Championship, not her first. The Raw Women’s Championship she won from Asuka at WrestleMania 37 in 2021 is the same physical title, renamed WWE Women’s Championship on June 9, 2023 when the draft moved it to SmackDown — WWE.com lists her as a two-time holder for exactly that reason. Outlets that called the 2026 win her first are miscounting a rename as a new belt, the same mistake that produces the 380-day claim above.
W
WWE Women's Championship
2021 — won as the Raw Women’s Championship, def. Asuka at WrestleMania 37 in Tampa, 98 days, lost to Charlotte Flair at Money in the Bank · 2026– — def. Jade Cargill at WrestleMania 42, 126 days as of August 23, 2026 and ongoing · the belt was established April 3, 2016, renamed Raw Women’s Championship in September 2016 and reverted to WWE Women’s Championship on June 9, 2023 — all three names, one title
2REIGNS
V
Women's World Championship
2023–24 — def. Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 39 Night 1, 380 days (Wikipedia) or 379 (WWE’s recognised count), relinquished April 15, 2024 · tied with Bayley’s second reign for the longest in the lineage, not ahead of it · 2025 — regained January 6, 56 days, ended March 3 · the belt was created August 23, 2016 as the SmackDown Women’s Championship and renamed on June 12, 2023
2REIGNS
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NXT Women's Championship
2019–20 · won December 18, 2019 in Winter Park, Florida — 10th champion overall · 109 days · lost to Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 36 Night 2 on April 5, 2020
1REIGNS
U
NXT UK Women's Championship
2018–19 · inaugural champion, def. Toni Storm in the tournament final · 139 days · start date disputed: the match was taped August 26, 2018 in Birmingham, but WWE recognises the reign as beginning November 28, 2018, the tape-delay air date · lost to Toni Storm at TakeOver: Blackpool, January 12, 2019 · title retired September 4, 2022
1REIGNS
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WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
2021 — with Nikki A.S.H. as “Super Brutality,” won September 20 on Raw in Raleigh, 63 days, lost to Natalya & Tamina · 2026 — with Iyo Sky as “Rhiyo,” won January 5 on Raw in New York, 53 days, lost to Asuka & Kairi Sane
2REIGNS
R
Riot City Wrestling Women's Championship
Australian independents, as Demi Bennett · reign dates and lengths not verified by any source consulted — listed by TheSmackDownHotel with no figures attached
2REIGNS
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Factions
One faction made her a headliner. Being thrown out of it made her a babyface.
WWE · May 2022 – August 2024
The Judgment Day
Rhea Ripley, Edge, Damian Priest, Finn Bálor, Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh, Carlito, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Roxanne Perez
Formed at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022 by Edge, who recruited Damian Priest; Ripley joined in May 2022 and the group dropped Edge and his leadership structure by June, running afterwards as a heel unit with no stated leader. It is where the Mami character was built and where her biggest year happened: the 2023 Royal Rumble, the WrestleMania 39 title win, the 380-day reign. Between them the members collected a World Heavyweight Championship, three Women's World Championship reigns, Intercontinental and NXT North American runs and two women's Royal Rumble wins. Ripley and Priest were removed from the group on the Raw after SummerSlam 2024, dated August 3, 2024, once the Dominik Mysterio and Liv Morgan storyline turned the faction against them. She did not walk out; she was thrown out.
WWE · 2024–present
The Terror Twins
Rhea Ripley, Damian Priest
The tag team the two of them formed after being expelled from The Judgment Day, and the vehicle for her turn back to a babyface. No championships are recorded for the pairing in any source consulted.
WWE · 2025–26
Rhiyo
Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky
A rivalry converted into a tag team. Sky had ended Ripley's second Women's World Championship reign in March 2025 and beaten her again in the WrestleMania 41 triple threat; they won the Women's Tag Team Championship together on January 5, 2026 in New York and held it 53 days before losing to Asuka and Kairi Sane.
WWE · 2021–22
Super Brutality
Rhea Ripley, Nikki A.S.H.
Her first tag team and first tag championship: 63 days as Women's Tag Team Champions from September 20, 2021, won on Raw in Raleigh and lost to Natalya and Tamina. TheSmackDownHotel also lists a short-lived 2022 pairing with Liv Morgan billed as “Liv for Brutality,” which no other source consulted confirms.
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Personas
Four characters, one escalation — from a mohawked NXT UK brawler to the most over women’s act of her era.
UKWWE · 2017–2019
The NXT UK Era
Renamed on July 13, 2017 after the Greek goddess Rhea and Ellen Ripley of Alien, she wrestled the inaugural Mae Young Classic and then became the first NXT UK Women's Champion as a shaved-side, aggressive brawler. The finishes of the period were the Riptide and a Full Nelson Slam, the latter used from October 25, 2017 to August 27, 2019. Before all of it: five years as Demi Bennett on the Australian independents and in Japan.
NMWWE · 2019–2021
The Nightmare
A darker, gothic presentation on the move from NXT UK to NXT, documented under that nickname by F4W. It carried the NXT Women's Championship from December 2019, the WrestleMania 36 match against Charlotte Flair that opened the show, and the call-up that produced her first main-roster title at WrestleMania 37.
MMWWE · 2022–2024
Mami
The character that made her a headliner, built inside The Judgment Day: a dominant heel who curdled into an antihero as the crowd refused to boo, the Dominik Mysterio dynamic, and the entrance theme “Demon In Your Dreams” by def rebel featuring Motionless in White. The Prism Trap, a standing inverted Texas cloverleaf, was added as a second finish from May 9, 2022.
ERWWE · 2024–present
The Eradicator, On Her Own
Expelled from the faction in August 2024 and rebuilt as a top babyface: the Terror Twins with Damian Priest, Rhiyo with Iyo Sky, the 2026 Elimination Chamber, and SmackDown's WWE Women's Champion from April 2026. WWE.com's current profile still leads with the Eradicator framing; Mami and The Nightmare both remain in use.
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Career Timeline
Adelaide to the Grand Slam, and the fastest anyone has completed it.
2013
Debuts in Australia as Demi Bennett
Starts on the Australian independents with Riot City Wrestling and New Horizon Pro Wrestling. The exact debut date is disputed four ways across published sources — see the tape.
2015
Tours Japan
Works for Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Sendai Girls, and holds the Riot City Wrestling Women's Championship twice around it.
2017
Signs with WWE and gets the name
Competes in the inaugural Mae Young Classic and is renamed Rhea Ripley on July 13, 2017, after the Greek goddess Rhea and Ellen Ripley of Alien.
2018
Inaugural NXT UK Women's Champion
Beats Toni Storm in the tournament final, taped August 26, 2018 in Birmingham and recognised by WWE from the November 28 air date. The reign runs 139 days.
2019
NXT Women's Champion
Wins the title on December 18, 2019 in Winter Park, Florida and holds it 109 days. Named Breakthrough Wrestler of the Year by both CBS Sports and ESPN.
2021
First main-roster championship
Beats Asuka at WrestleMania 37 on April 11 for the Raw Women's Championship — the same belt now called the WWE Women's Championship — and wins her first Women's Tag Team Championship with Nikki A.S.H. in September.
2022
Joins The Judgment Day
Enters the faction in May 2022. The Mami character takes hold and the Prism Trap is added to the arsenal.
2023
The career year
Wins the women's Royal Rumble from entry number one on January 28, beats Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 39 on April 1, and is named PWI's number one in the Women's 250, PWI Woman of the Year and the Wrestling Observer's Women's Wrestling MVP.
2024
The 380 days end, and so does the faction
Relinquishes the Women's World Championship on April 15 after 380 days, returns at SummerSlam and loses to Liv Morgan, and is removed from The Judgment Day on August 3.
2025
Second world reign and a five-star match
Regains the Women's World Championship on January 6 for 56 days; the WrestleMania 41 triple threat against Iyo Sky and Bianca Belair earns five stars from Dave Meltzer and Sports Illustrated's Match of the Year.
2026
WWE Women's Champion, then sidelined
Wins the Women's Tag Team Championship with Iyo Sky on January 5, the Elimination Chamber on February 28, and the WWE Women's Championship from Jade Cargill at WrestleMania 42 on April 19, moving to SmackDown. Her last match is the Turin rematch on May 31; a knee injury follows and Chelsea Green is crowned interim champion on August 2.
The measuring stick, and the scoreboard runs both ways: Flair beat her for the NXT Women's Championship at WrestleMania 36 and took the Raw Women's Championship off her at Money in the Bank 2021. Then Ripley beat her at WrestleMania 39 on April 1, 2023 — the first woman to win a singles match against Flair at WrestleMania — in a match Pro Wrestling Illustrated named its 2023 Match of the Year. That win started the 380 days.
The feud that ended her faction era. Morgan's storyline pursuit of Dominik Mysterio and the attack that wrote Ripley off television led to the Women's World Championship being relinquished on April 15, 2024, a losing return at SummerSlam, and Ripley and Damian Priest being thrown out of The Judgment Day in August. Morgan took two Women's World Championship reigns out of it.
Sky ended Ripley's second Women's World Championship reign on March 3, 2025 and then retained against Ripley and Bianca Belair in the WrestleMania 41 triple threat — the five-star match, and the highest-rated women's match WWE has had on Meltzer's scale. The rivalry then converted into Rhiyo, the tag team that won the Women's Tag Team Championship in January 2026.
The current program, and the one that moved Ripley to SmackDown as champion. She took the WWE Women's Championship from Cargill at WrestleMania 42 on April 19, 2026 and retained the rematch at Clash in Italy in Turin on May 31 in front of an announced 12,000. That rematch is her last match to date, and one of the two conflicting injury reports places the knee injury in it.
The third corner of the WrestleMania 41 triple threat and a recurring opponent across the 2023 to 2025 title runs. Detail on their earlier singles meetings is not verified in the research file, so none is claimed here.
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Media & Gaming
What is verified, and what is not.
2019–2026
WWE 2K series
Playable in WWE 2K20, WWE 2K Battlegrounds, WWE 2K22, WWE 2K23, WWE 2K24, WWE 2K25 and WWE 2K26 — and the cover star of the WWE 2K24 Deluxe Edition.
Game2024
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Unlockable operator. One Wikipedia read described her as a Season 5 operator; that season detail is not verified and is not asserted here.
Game2022–
Demon In Your Dreams
Her entrance theme, by def rebel featuring Motionless in White and co-written by the band. Performed live at WrestleMania XL.
Music—
Film and television
No filmography is published here because none is verified. Wikipedia's other-media section lists only video games and the theme song; her IMDb page is blocked to automated retrieval by robots.txt and TV Guide's credits page returned nothing parseable. A role in Terrifier 4 has been covered as a potential role only and is unconfirmed. There is no autobiography.
Not verified
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Records & Feats
The numbers, stated the way the sources actually state them — ties included.
380Day title reign (tied)
1:01:08Longest women’s Rumble
5thWomen’s Grand Slam
★
380 days with the Women's World Championship — tied, not first
April 1, 2023 to April 15, 2024. Wikipedia's title article states that Bayley's second reign and Ripley's first are tied for the longest singular reign at 380 days, and that WWE recognises 379 days for both. Bayley's reign (October 11, 2019 to October 25, 2020) sits on the same lineage table because the SmackDown Women's Championship was renamed the Women's World Championship in June 2023.
★
First woman to win a Royal Rumble from the number-one entry
January 28, 2023. She also set the record for longest time in a women's Royal Rumble at 1:01:08 — a record Bayley broke the following year at 1:03:03, so it is no longer hers.
★
5th WWE Women's Grand Slam Champion, 7th Women's Triple Crown Champion
Wikipedia adds that she is the only wrestler to have held all five titles in the women's Grand Slam set and the youngest Grand Slam champion of either gender at 26. Both of those claims are single-sourced to Wikipedia and were not corroborated elsewhere, so they are reported as attributed rather than as settled fact.
★
First Australian woman to hold a WWE championship
Note the qualifier. Buddy Murphy's 2018 Cruiserweight Championship predates it, so the version of this claim without the word 'woman' is wrong.
★
Five stars from Dave Meltzer, once
Ripley vs. Iyo Sky vs. Bianca Belair, WrestleMania 41 Night 2, April 20, 2025, reported by Wrestlezone. Sports Illustrated also named it its 2025 Match of the Year.
★
PWI number one in the Women's 250, 2023
Plus PWI Woman of the Year 2023, Faction of the Year 2023 for The Judgment Day and Match of the Year 2023 for the WrestleMania 39 match with Charlotte Flair. Her Women's 250 placings for 2024, 2025 and 2026 are not verified and are not guessed at here.
★
Wrestling Observer Women's Wrestling MVP, 2023
Alongside Sports Illustrated's number two overall wrestler of 2023 and number seven women's wrestler of 2019, WWE Slammy Awards for Female Superstar, Faction and Match of the Year in 2024, CBS Sports and ESPN Breakthrough Wrestler of the Year in 2019, and the Women's Wrestling Hall of Fame's Pro Wrestler of the Year for 2025.
★
Royal Rumble 2023 attendance is two different numbers
WWE announced 51,338 at the Alamodome. Wrestlenomics counted 42,928 tickets scanned. Both figures are published; neither has been reconciled.
★
WrestleMania 39 drew 134,856 across two nights
WWE's figures: 67,303 on Night 1, when she beat Charlotte Flair for the title, and 67,553 on Night 2. Her last match, Clash in Italy on May 31, 2026, drew an announced 12,000 at the Inalpi Arena in Turin.
No career win-loss total appears anywhere on this page. Cagematch was excluded from research as JavaScript-gated, and the previous edition of this page published a 71-22 record that the harvester flags as inconsistent with its own sparkline, which carries 66 marks and five losses and is decorative rather than data. Where two sources give two numbers — 380 against 379 days, 51,338 against 42,928 tickets, five published heights and weights between them — both are shown rather than one being chosen.
Is Rhea Ripley’s 380-day reign the longest in Women’s World Championship history?
No — it is a tie. Wikipedia’s article on the title states that Bayley’s second reign and Ripley’s first are tied for the longest singular reign at 380 days, and that WWE recognises 379 days for both. Ripley held it from April 1, 2023 to April 15, 2024; Bayley held it from October 11, 2019 to October 25, 2020. Bayley’s reign counts on the same list because the belt was created on August 23, 2016 as the SmackDown Women’s Championship and only renamed the Women’s World Championship in June 2023 — and that rename is exactly why the “longest ever” claim spreads. Treat the title as though it began in 2023 and Ripley’s number looks unmatched; treat it as the single lineage it actually is and she is level with Bayley. Nobody has held it longer, which is the accurate way to say it.
Is Rhea Ripley still the WWE Women’s Champion?
Yes. She has held the title since April 19, 2026 and WWE did not vacate it when she was injured — despite several outlets reporting that she “vacated” a championship. Instead WWE created a separate Interim WWE Women’s Championship, won by Chelsea Green in a five-woman ladder match at SummerSlam Night 2 on August 2, 2026 over Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill, Tiffany Stratton and Lash Legend, with a unification match promised for Ripley’s return. Two further details often get garbled: the belt is the WWE Women’s Championship, not the SmackDown Women’s Championship, and the interim belt is not a Women’s World Championship.
What is Rhea Ripley’s injury, and when is she coming back?
No return date has been announced as of August 23, 2026, and the injury itself is reported two ways that do not reconcile. On July 11, 2026, F4W/Wrestling Observer quoted Ripley herself describing “a slight tear in her meniscus,” suffered on June 3, 2026 at a house show in Lisbon, with no surgery mentioned and a timeline she called “a little bit up in the air.” On August 11, 2026, Athlon Sports reported a severe meniscus tear in the right knee suffered on May 31 at Clash in Italy against Jade Cargill, followed by failed rehab and surgery, and cited the Wrestling Observer saying WWE hoped to have her cleared for the Royal Rumble. Different date, different severity, different treatment. Both are published; neither is presented here as settled, and the Royal Rumble target is a reported hope rather than a booking.
How many world championships has Rhea Ripley won?
Four world title reigns across two lineages: two Women’s World Championship reigns (2023–24 and 2025) and two WWE Women’s Championship reigns (2021 and 2026). The 2021 one counts because the Raw Women’s Championship she took from Asuka at WrestleMania 37 is the same belt, renamed the WWE Women’s Championship on June 9, 2023 — which is why her WrestleMania 42 win over Jade Cargill is her second reign with it, not her first, and why WWE.com lists her as a two-time holder. Counting all WWE championships rather than world titles: eight reigns across five belts.
Why did Rhea Ripley leave The Judgment Day?
She did not leave — she was thrown out. On the Raw following SummerSlam 2024, dated August 3, 2024, Ripley and Damian Priest were removed from the group by the remaining members, the endpoint of the Dominik Mysterio and Liv Morgan storyline that had already cost Ripley the Women’s World Championship in April. The two of them formed the Terror Twins afterwards, and the expulsion is what turned her babyface.
When did Rhea Ripley make her professional wrestling debut?
Four sources publish four answers, so no single date is asserted here. Wikipedia says June 22, 2013; TheSmackDownHotel says June 29, 2013; Pro Wrestling Fandom says June 2013 with Riot City Wrestling; and F4W says May 24, 2014 with New Horizon Pro Wrestling. Three of the four put it in June 2013 on the Australian independents as Demi Bennett, which is the most that can honestly be claimed. Her WWE signing followed in 2017. No source consulted names an individual trainer from her Australian years; Wikipedia credits the WWE Performance Center only.