10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Rhea Ripley

7. Her Survivor Series 2019 Weekend Dominance

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Chaos reigned supreme in WWE throughout the month of November 2019, but that still doesn't excuse the company for retconning all the work they did to establish Rhea Ripley as somebody for everybody to be extremely f*cking worried about.

It's all so odd. Once upon a time, WWE were handcuffed by copyright or Vince McMahon's own stubbornness when it came to promoting the history of a new signing, but now it's nothing more than a wilful ignorance of their own recent past.

'The Nightmare' was unimpeachable everywhere she went, picking up a victory over Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks in a SmackDown triple threat match before overturning a 4-on-2 disadvantage to win 2019's TakeOver: WarGames opener alongside Candice LeRae and securing victory for the black-and-gold brand 24 hours later at the Survivor Series.

Is it any wonder her NXT Championship win over Shayna Baszler was a shining light in a ratings war WWE comprehensively lost?

And about that...

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