20 Reasons Why WWE WrestleMania 39 Absolutely RULED
7. Finally, Rhea Ripley
This was not Rhea Ripley's first main roster rodeo - in fact, it was the last one she required to become a Grand Slam Champion - but this victory yielded the unadulterated appropriate result with the most room for development, and she did so by slaying the only woman who has held her kryptonite, Charlotte Flair.
Ripley and Flair produced an astonishingly sound match that succinctly made their pitch for the headline spot of WrestleMania, a spot that Flair believed she and Rhea warranted owing to the latter's Royal Rumble victory. Though that spot went to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn vs. The Usos, Rhea vs. Charlotte was so combative, so urgent, and so frantic that each kickout, during what was already a kickout-heavy weekend, was so persuasive as a match-ender. Flair escaping a loss via Riptide and Ripley doing the same off a repulsive Spear both could have concluded the match; that it took a middle-rope Riptide for Rhea to win set her on a pedestal reminiscent of her NXT circa-2019 peak.
She's the man once more. Let's hope this reign works out better for her than her short-lived ruinous Raw Women's title run.