Rhea Ripley: Liv Morgan Is Someone I Love Deeply

Rhea Ripley pulls back the curtain on her relationship with Liv Morgan and says that, despite their long-standing on-screen rivalry, she has a great deal of affection for her.

Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan were once tag team partners. They even challenged for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship at WWE WrestleMania 38. Eventually, they became bitter rivals. Ripley struck first by betraying Morgan in 2022 and then injuring her in 2023. Morgan finally got her revenge throughout 2024, taking the Judgment Day and the Women’s World Championship from Ripley while Ripley was out injured, which Morgan caused.

Now that they have settled their score on TV for the time being, Rhea Ripley is opening up about how much Liv Morgan truly means to her behind the scenes. Speaking with Allenownz Wrasslin, Ripley admits that she has a lot of love for Morgan, which dates back to their time in NXT.

“So, Liv is someone that I love deeply. Our feud that we’ve had in WWE has gone on for so long now, and I feel like every time we come back to it, we don’t get to touch on everything that’s actually happened throughout our careers together,” she said. “This goes back to NXT; she gave me her NXT locker when she left to join the main roster. We’ve always had some sort of connection. So to be able to go through and have this continuously long story that sort of gets threaded together, but then forgot about but then threaded together, it’s really cool to see it all come together in the end.

“Especially knowing how many problems there were with it, and how many ups and downs, with the injuries, with her getting injured the first time, that kind of threw everything for a loop, and it it screwed up the story, which then ended up with me and Raquel for a little while, while she got better,” she continued. “Then I went on to do other things, But when she came back, she targeted me, but then I got injured, and it’s just like a repetitive, vicious cycle of things fucking up, and us getting our shit together, and, like, making it into the best that we could, which was really cool to see.”

Continuing, Ripley would call Morgan someone who is simultaneously her wrestling nemesis and her wrestling love.

“She’s like, my story nemesis; my wrestling nemesis, my everything nemesis, but like, at the same time, like my wrestling love. It’s a really weird combination of emotions and story that we have together,” she said. “Being able to go out there with her and put on the matches that we did put on does mean a lot to me. She’s someone that I’ve made such a strong bond with here in the WWE and being able to have fun out there with my friend and then bring Dominik into it, and then bring Raquel back into it, this is why I do what I do, because I get to do it with people that I love and appreciate, and they love and appreciate me.

“We get to make magic and get fans connected to it and entertained by it, and hell, if they hate me for real, for beating up Liv, then I’m doing my job, right? So I’m having fun,” she added.

During the new WWE Unreal series on Netflix, Rhea Ripley compared her rivalry with Liv Morgan to Groundhog Day. Read those comments here.

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