WWE discusses the match between Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio

Dominik Mysterio has been in Rhea Ripley’s crosshairs for over two years. The second-generation luchador was stalked by The Judgment Day frontwoman throughout the summer of 2022 as she and her stablemates Damian Priest and Finn Balor tried to stop him from meeting his father Rey Mysterio. The rogue group’s efforts were successful WWE fight in the castle 2022, when Dominik turned against Rey and joined The Judgment Day. By a twist of fate, Dominik remains a member of the faction to this day, but helped the group’s new leader, Balor, excommunicate both Priest and Ripley from the ranks. Dominikhea teamed up with WWE Women’s Champion Liv Morgan, Ripley’s long-time rival, and has faced his former Mamí ever since.

WWE discusses the match between Dominik and Rhea

Dominik Mysterio could definitely get his comeuppance.

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As an insider report reports @WrestleVotesWWE has “floated” the idea of ​​having Dominik Mysterio face Rhea Ripley in an intergender match. The report adds that there is uncertainty about “how high [the pitch has] “I did it,” but there is a “real desire” to make the game possible “before the angle fizzles out.”

Ripley’s feud against her former stable primarily unfolded in matches against WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan. The two competed against each other in singles WWE SummerSlam And WWE Bad Blood while they also competed against each other in a mixed tag team match WWE Bash in Berlin. In this fight, Ripley teamed up with Damian Priest while Morgan teamed up with Dominik.

Intergender matches are a thing of the past in WWE. The company occasionally held a man-on-woman match during the Attitude Era, usually involving Chyna, the only woman to ever win the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Since then, women have sporadically come into contact with the male superstars, with female talents such as Beth Phoenix, Kharma and Nia Jax competing in the men’s Royal Rumble in the 2010s. The last intergender match to take place in a WWE ring occurred during the WWE ThunderDome era, when Reggie faced Shayna Baszler in a May 2021 edition WWE Monday Night Raw.

WWE once had plans to have Nia Jax and Dean Ambrose (AEW’s Jon Moxley) wrestle each other at a live event in early 2019, but that approach was ultimately scrapped.

“The Dean Ambrose thing was funny because we were scheduled for it, but the particular state we were in didn’t allow it,” Jax reflected on the canceled program earlier this year. “So it wasn’t necessarily a behind-the-scenes drama. It was like the state wouldn’t allow this game, so we couldn’t have it. And then it just fell from there.

“I think intergender wrestling is great,” Jax continued. “We’re an entertainment company, right? Whatever happens, whatever we could do to entertain people and I think that would be an incredibly entertaining match of intergender wrestling. When I got to the Rumble, you could see how crazy the crowd was and how much they liked it when I got thrown out.”