Overview
- Rhea Ripley earned the WrestleMania 42 shot at Jade Cargill’s WWE Women’s Championship by winning the women’s Elimination Chamber on Feb. 28.
- Jade Cargill labeled Ripley the “second option” and alleged she spends hours with WWE’s creative team, drawing a profane denial from Ripley on X.
- Chelsea Green and Piper Niven entered the exchange to back Ripley, with Niven trading pointed messages with Cargill despite being sidelined by a neck injury.
- Ripley posted, then deleted, an Instagram story saying she is “not having fun” and warning against “breaking the fourth wall” to defame a real person.
- Dave Meltzer reports the posts were planned to feel real using genuine locker-room sentiment, while Bodyslam.net’s Cory Hays says the heat is real; separate reports say WWE originally eyed Cargill vs. Bianca Belair before Belair’s injury.