Rhea Ripley nominated for South Australian Woman of the Year award
Australian WWE star Rhea Ripley is one of 40 Australian women that have been nominated as South Australian Woman of The Year. Just days after the WWE Women’s World Champion retained her title in the main event in front of her family and Australian public she has been nominated for this prestigious award.
The Advertiser in Adelaide also had this to say about Rhea Ripley’s Nomination:
“She first stepped into the ring at Adelaide’s Riot City Wrestling as young teenager Demi Bennett.
Twelve years later, under her famed WWE persona, Rhea Ripley returned to Australia as the reigning Women’s World Champion to appear at this weekend’s Elimination Chamber, the American professional wrestling promotion’s first live show Down Under since 2018, and the last major event on the wrestling calendar before WrestleMania 40.
The 27-year-old has been named as one of the greatest ever, dominating the world of wrestling.
Since signing with WWE in 2017, she has become a social media sensation, with 3.4M followers on Instagram and 2.6M followers on TikTok. In a sign of her dominance, she be on the cover of WWE’s annual video game, coming out soon.”
We here at PWDownUnder.com wish to extend our congratulations to Rhea Ripley on being nominated for such a prestigious award. We will keep you updated on whether Rhea wins the award. But even if she doesn’t it’s been a heck of 12 months for Ripley.
52,000 Australians left Elimination Chamber pleased that the Aussie born star was able to retain her belt in front of them, now she’s been given a chance at another award.
News Writer. Living in Tasmania Dave is a lifelong wrestling fan, formerly working for Mix It Up Radio’s Wrestling Asylum Radio program, and Wide Bay Pro Wrestling working backstage and writing articles. Podcaster with 15 years of journalism experience across different sports mostly AFL and professional wrestling, photographer for local footy in Tasmania.
