One WWE Match You MUST Watch From Every Year 1984-2024
3. 2021 - Rhea Ripley Vs. Charlotte Flair, Money In The Bank
Charlotte Flair yet again defeated Rhea Ripley when the two met at Money In The Bank 2021, with memories still lingering of their last significant singles match playing out to the silence of the Performance Center at WrestleMania 36. Better those than the abysmal promos the pair cut on each other in the dying days of the ThunderDome to build it up.
As they'd again show at WrestleMania 39 in an even more hard-hitting affair, Ripley and Flair were made for each other physically. 'The Nightmare' has often worked in the monster role, but Flair oddly downplays this all-too-often. Never against Ripley, and this Godzilla/King Kong energy was exactly what the first full live PLE crowd in a year and a half wanted from their return to the venues.
With the burden of bad acting lifted, 'The Queen' graced her subjects by shooting them a middle finger in the first seconds and the gnarly energy never let up from there. As meaty chops and forearms gave way to exhausted closing stretches that ripped at the hearts of fans as much as they ripped the worn muscles of the women themselves, the two logged an entry lost to time that will age incredibly, incredibly well. They worked bigger and weirder stages, but needed this wholly unique one to thread their two more famous matches together.