WWE Night Of Champions 2025: 8 Things That Must Happen
7. Rhea Ripley Dominates The ‘Street Fight’
Presumably, pint-sized nuisance Roxanne Perez will poke her nose into Rhea Ripley's business yet again at NOC. Honestly? WWE missed a trick by not calling this a ‘This Is My Brutality’ match, or something. Tailor the brawling gimmick to Rhea, y’know? Maybe that's a naff idea that explains the lack of a callback once that WWE creative team application was filed!
Seriously though, this hastily-assembled bout is only on the card as a late replacement for Dominik Mysterio vs. AJ Styles, it seems, so Ripley going over makes the most sense. It is cool to see someone like Raquel Rodriguez finally do more than act as the Diesel to Liv Morgan's Shawn Michaels again, to be fair. Fingers crossed she can show out enough to nail down a decent spot now Liv is on the injured list for a while.
This duo produced some good stuff back when Raquel was Gonzalez not Rodriguez down in NXT, so there's no reason to expect anything other than two alpha females battering hell out of one another for 10-15 minutes. Then, Roxanne can show face like she did on Monday's episode of Raw and take a Riptide through some tables right before Ripley does the same to Raquel and bags a popular win.
Rhea has blossomed into one of the most popular names on the WWE roster in mid-2025, so Trips shouldn't slow her roll. Rodriguez can give her a good fight, but she shouldn't be the one getting her hand raised over in Riyadh. This has 'Mami on top' written all over it every day of the week.
Side note: Unrelated, but WWE could've called a tag-team between Rhea and Natalya "Brutalya". Carry on with your day!