Rhea Ripley has had a hell of a couple days.
She took the pin when losing the tag team titles on Friday Night SmackDown in Louisville then traveled to Chicago the very next day to win the Elimination Chamber match to book a ticket to WrestleMania 42 and a women’s championship match in April. She’ll be challenging Jade Cargill for her title, and the two are already deep into a social media war over it.
But where does this leave her tag team with Iyo Sky?
She talked about as much on WWE Now, revealing
they are putting things on hold so she can pursue singles gold once more:
“There’s always been respect between Iyo and I, no matter what we were doing, and moving forward the respect will still be there. Obviously I want to be there for her through whatever she’s going through and whatever comes, and I know that she’s got my back with everything that’s going to be coming in my direction as well with SmackDown and Jade. But I also can’t read the future.
“Obviously the tag team stuff might have to be put on hold for a little bit. But whatever she is doing, I’m still going to be there for her and vice versa. I don’t know, it’s kind of sad to think about because I feel like Iyo has kind of been in my life here in the WWE over the past like, what, year-and-a-half? We’ve been pretty much inseparable whether we’ve been facing each other or we’ve been tagging together, just like growing that bond. I’ve seen her family betray her, she’s seen my family betray me. We’ve been there, and we’ve helped each other through everything. She’s kind of been the one to pull me out of that dark place where I didn’t trust anyone. I didn’t think that friends were real. I didn’t think that I could form a bond with anyone and trust anyone. And then there’s Iyo being a little ray of sunshine that you just can’t help but to love.
“Yeah, it’s going to be weird. It’s going to be very, very weird. I can’t tell exactly what’s going to happen but if she ever needs me I’m going to be there and vice versa, I know she’s got my back through thick and thin.”
It’s truly a sad day for the women’s tag team division.
And what’s next for Iyo now?
