Back from the break and the RAW women’s division is backstage with Sonya Deville and Adam Pearce. They talk about the Team RAW women’s team and Deville congratulates Carmella, Queen Zelina, Liv Morgan, Bianca Belair and WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Rhea Ripley. Deville thought they’d start off tonight with a friendly Fatal 5 Way among teammates. The winner will earn a future title shot from RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. Doudrop asks Deville why she wasn’t included, over someone like Belair. Belair and Doudrop have a few words, which leads to some arguing among others. Pearce tries to calm them. Dana Brooke interrupts and goes on about how she’s paid her dues, and it’s time others paid her some respect. WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Nikki A.S.H. also speaks up. Carmella knocks Nikki and Ripley defends her. This leads to another argument with everyone getting into it as Pearce and Deville try to calm things.

Fatal 5 Way #1 Contender’s Match: Carmella vs. Queen Zelina Vega vs. Liv Morgan vs. Bianca Belair vs. WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Rhea Ripley

Back from a promo and out comes RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch to join the announcers for commentary. We go back to commercial.

Back from the break and Bianca Belair is backstage warming up when Doudrop approaches, frustrated over how Belair keeps getting title shots after coming up short. Belair walks off as she’s not trying to hear it. We go back to the ring and out comes Belair. We see highlights from last week’s loss to Lynch. Out next comes Carmella. We get pre-recorded comments with Carmella talking about being the diamond of WWE – rare, rich, expensive. Soon we will have to call her the most beautiful RAW Women’s Champion. Becky doesn’t believe it will happen. Liv Morgan is out next, followed by Queen Zelina Vega. Vega gives pre-recorded comments on how she’s the only one who can give the RAW Women’s Title the royal treatment it deserves. Out last is WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Rhea Ripley.

A brawl breaks out at ringside to start. Officials try to restore order as Becky barks at Belair from the announce table. We go to commercial while there’s chaos at ringside.

Back from the break and the bell rings. Carmella and Ripley go at it while Belair tosses Vega to the floor. Belair and Ripley turn around and face off in the ring now. Carmella and Vega run back in and attack before they can get going. Belair and Vega go to the floor now. Ripley and Carmella are on the other side of the ring at ringside. Ripley sends Carmella into the barrier. Belair turns and invites Ripley back into the ring. They meet in the middle as fans cheer them on.

Belair and Ripley finally lock up. They keep the lock up applied until Belair goes behind a minute later. They trade holds on their feet now. Carmella and Vega trip Belair from the floor, then pull her out and send her into the barrier. Vega and Carmella celebrate, then enter the ring for Ripley but she headbutts Vega, then takes Carmella down and dropkicks her. Vega with a chop block to take Ripley down. Vega and Carmella unload on Ripley now.

Carmella, wearing her mask, superkicks Ripley while Vega holds her. Carmella goes for the pin but Vega breaks it up. They argue now. Liv comes to the apron but gets knocked right back to the floor. Carmella and Vega go back to work on Ripley. The tension between Vega and Carmella continues. Ripley fights them both off with chops but they slam her to the mat by her head. Carmella chops Ripley as Vega holds her now. Ripley moves and Carmella accidentally chops Vega now. Ripley scoops Carmella but it’s blocked and Carmella drops her.

Ripley is double teamed in the corner some more as fans boo. Vega misses double knees as Ripley moves. Liv comes in and unloads on Carmella with right hands. Liv with a running hip attack and a jumping knee to Carmella in the corner. Liv is countered but comes right back with a scissors kick to Carmella. Liv with a big stomp to the back of the head for a 2 count as Vega breaks it up. Vega unloads on Liv and sends her out of the ring. Ripley comes from behind and takes a big right hand from Vega. Ripley launches Vega across the ring with ease, and again.

Ripley dominates Vega and puts her back down for a pop. Ripley with the Northern Lights suplex to Vega but Belair makes the save. Belair tosses Ripley to the floor. Belair with shoulder thrusts in the corner to Vega. Belair flips around and attacks Carmella and Vega in the corner now. Liv comes in with double knees to Belair. Carmella takes out Liv with a Facebuster for 2 as Ripley breaks it up. Ripley with a big dropkick but Vega drops Ripley with a tornado DDT for a close 2 count.

Vega is frustrated now. Belair runs in and flattens Vega with a shoulder. Belair presses Vega high in the air and tosses her out of the ring onto the other 3 opponents. Belair stands tall and plays to the crowd for a pop as we finally go back to commercial.

Back from the break and Vega and Liv have Ripley up top for a double superplex. Belair comes in and slams Liv and Vega to the mat with a double powerbomb. Ripley leaps off the top and levels Belair as she turns around. Carmella drops Ripley with a superkick as she turns around. Carmella covers everyone but they all kick out at 2 and she’s frustrated after the different pin attempts. Belair catches Carmella’s kick at ringside and slams her face-first into the announce table. Ripley tells Belair to come back in and bring it. They go at it now. Belair blocks Riptide and goes for KOD but Ripley lands on her feet. They run the ropes and Ripley kicks Belair out of the air with a big boot.

Ripley with Riptide but Liv breaks the pin up just in time. Liv ducks a back elbow and drops Ripley with a hurricanrana. Ripley overpowers and goes on but Liv blocks Riptide. Liv kicks Ripley face-first into the middle rope. Liv leaps at Ripley and nails Oblivion off the rope for a close 2 count as Vega breaks it up. Vega drops Liv in the corner and poses for boos from the crowd. Vega with double knees to Liv in the corner. Belair stops Vega’s Code Red to Liv.

Liv tries to stop Belair’s KOD to Vega but Belair kicks Liv out of the ring, then drops Vega with the KOD. Belair covers for the pin but Doudrop runs down and drags Belair to the floor and takes her out, punching her and sending her face-first into the ring post. Doudrop stares down at Belair. Carmella scrambles and tries to steal the pin on Vega, but Liv rolls her over for the pin to win.

Winner and New #1 Contender: Liv Morgan

 After the match, Liv stands tall and has her arm raised as the music hits. Lynch looks on from ringside. We go to replays. Becky stands on the announce table now, raising the title in the air. Liv meets her and they face off on top of the announce table. Becky makes her exit.

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We see footage from earlier today of Queen Zelina Vega and Carmella walking backstage together, complimenting each other. WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley walk up, but the two teams end up having words. Ripley defends Nikki and says she won’t let them hurt her feelings. Nikki issues a challenge and Vega accepts. Carmella laughs as they walk off.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley vs. Carmella and Queen Zelina Vega

We go back to the ring and out first for this non-title match are WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley. Back to commercial.

Back from the break and WWE Champion Big E vs. Kevin Owens in a non-title match is confirmed for the main event. We go back to the ring and out comes Carmella and Queen Zelina Vega. The bell rings and Carmella goes to the ringside area to put her protective mask on. Ripley meets Vega in the middle of the ring and they argue to start. Ripley shoves Vega down into the corner.

Carmella tags in now and taunts Ripley, then slaps her in the face. Ripley seethes as Carmella taunts her. Ripley levels Carmella with a stiff headbutt, then unloads on her with strikes. Ripley with a dropkick to the back of the head.

We see Liv Morgan, Doudrop, Natalya and Tamina Snuka backstage watching. Nikki ends up tagging in and getting the upperhand on Carmella. Vega runs in but Nikki sends her into Ripley’s boot in the corner. Carmella and Vega end up on the floor together. Nikki leaps from the apron and takes them both down with a crossbody for a pop. Nikki celebrates at ringside as we go back to commercial.

Back from the break and Carmella dominates Ripley, grounding her in the middle of the ring. Ripley finally slams Carmella and tags in Nikki. Nikki unloads on both opponents, knocking Carmella to the floor. Nikki mounts Vega in the corner with right hands as the crowd counts along with her. Nikki with the swinging neckbreaker for a close 2 count as Carmella kicks her in the face to break it up. Carmella dumps Ripley to the floor as we see the other female Superstars backstage watching.

Ripley gets Carmella on her shoulders but Carmella sends her face-first into the ring post. Carmella comes back and sends Ripley into the barrier to put her down. Carmella and Vega double team Nikki after coming back in now. Vega turns it into a Code Red for the pin to win.

Winners: Queen Zelina and Carmella

After the match, Vega and Carmella stand tall together and celebrate as the music hits. Ripley is down at ringside and Nikki is down in the ring.

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WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley approach Bianca Belair backstage to welcome her to the RAW brand, giving her a red brand hat. Belair appreciates it and says nothing will get in her way of winning the RAW Women’s Title tonight. We get a promo to hype the main event.

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John Morrison is meditating in the back when WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley walk up, asking what he’s doing. Morrison is tapping into his inner chi. Nikki says everyone should follow their dreams. They walk away and laugh as Ripley asks Nikki if she knows what Morrison was talking about, but she doesn’t. They look back and Morrison is meditating again.

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WWE’s Rhea Ripley is having the time of her life at the moment as part of the Super Brutality duo alongside Nikki A.S.H. Rhea and Nikki are currently ruling the Tag Division as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, and they will continue that rule on Monday Night Raw thanks to night one of the WWE Draft. While Rhea and Nikki couldn’t be more different in their in-ring personas, they compliment each other quite well, and ComicBook.com had the chance to talk to Ripley all about how their Tag Team started, what led to the Super Brutality title, how she feels about being on Raw, and even the reveal of who Nikki would be in the Dragon Ball Z universe.

To kick things off we had to talk about the Super Brutality title and ask where it came from. The title quickly resonated with fans, though it caught Ripley by surprise a bit.

“To be honest, I have no idea. I have absolutely no clue whatsoever. She said it on TV, and I was like, what? Okay, sure. Because I hadn’t heard of it before that Monday Night Raw happened,” Ripley said. “I had never heard it before unless some fan posted it on Twitter and someone read it and was like, oooh, that sounds good. Let’s use that tonight. I don’t know.”

In fact, it kind of mirrored the origin of their tag team and how that came about, which wasn’t planned but just kind of became a thing over time.

“The tag-team between Nikki and I, it sort of grew. We kept getting booked in things week in week, and I guess it sort of happened because no one told me it was a thing until it was a thing,” Ripley said. “Yeah. I’m not complaining. I’m having the time of my life.”

They bring the best out of each other, both in and outside of the ring, and Ripley hasn’t smiled this much in quite some time.

“She definitely brings the brighter side out of me a little bit. She’s got me cracking smiles on TV and I don’t know what the hell’s going on. I’m not someone that really likes to smile when I’m down to business, but she always seems to bring the fun and the positivity, and I think that’s what she’s all about. And that’s one thing that I really do love about her. She tries to bring the positivity out of me, and it’s something that I have definitely locked down deep, deep inside of me, but it’s slowly creeping out and I do appreciate her for that because it’s making me enjoy life and everything.”

As for Nikki, Ripley hopes she’s given her some additional edge, pushing her to bring out that inner brutality. “And with Nikki, I’m just trying to bring the brutality out of her, trying to bring out a little bit of darkness. I’m hoping that she gets a little bit more grungy in the ring, I want to say. I want her to stand up for herself, and I think she can. Seeing how she handled herself with Charlotte over those few months where she had the title and we were having those matches, I know it’s there and I want her to bring it out and I want her to go mental one day and beat someone up,” Ripley said.

While Ripley didn’t plan on being a part of another Tag Team, she’s enjoyed it quite a bit so far. “I’m really enjoying it, I really am. I’ve always been someone that’s loved tag wrestling. I haven’t changed too much mentally or physically about myself, I’m just going with the flow,” Ripley said.

“And it’s honestly so wild, especially knowing that this tag team formed in such a weird way and sort of just happened, in my eyes. One day we were a tag team. I think it’s wild that we’re holding the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships,” Ripley said. “That’s something that I didn’t think I would be able to hold onto this early in my career. Especially with someone like Nikki, it was a bit of a shock to me.”

During Night 1 of the WWE Draft, it was revealed that Rhea and Nikki will be staying on Monday Night Raw, and when Ripley initially moved from NXT she debuted on the Raw brand. There was a point where a SmackDown debut was talked about, but Raw quickly won out.

“At the very, very start I heard both. I think I traveled to one or two SmackDowns because it was in Tampa so I just had to drive there, so I think I went to one or two of them. But then pretty early on, I heard that it was Raw so I just kept going to Raw until eventually I got booked and stopped eating cookies and catering,” Ripley said.

As for which brand she was hoping to be on this time around, the Red Brand was at the top of her wishlist, but she does look forward to joining the Blue Brand at some point down the line.

“I think I look better in Red, to be completely honest. I love SmackDown and one day I do want to go to SmackDown because I want to be a Grand Slam Champion, but right now I think my placement is on Raw,” Ripley said. “And also, with this draft, there are so many girls on SmackDown that I haven’t worked yet, but I know that it’s all going to be jumbled anyway, so if I go to SmackDown they might not be there anyway. And also, I feel like on Raw we get more time to showcase our abilities, which is something that I’m always there for, where on SmackDown I feel like there’s limited time because it’s only two hours where Raw is three.”

Plus, as Women’s Tag Team Champions, she gets to bounce between both, so it’s a win-win. “Yeah, exactly. I’m going to be going to both anyways, so at the moment I don’t really mind which one I’m on,” Ripley said.

Now, the last time we talked to Ripley she mentioned she wanted to create some Android 18 Dragon Ball Z gear to follow up her stunning gear from WrestleMania, so we had to see how that was coming along.

“I honestly, I haven’t been thinking about it too much, but it’s just so hard to picture how everything is going to look because it is such a random piece of clothing that she wears. I’m like, I don’t know how to put that into my gear and make it look cool without having random stripes everywhere and denim. I don’t know how to work it so I gave up on it a little bit, but you did remind me just then I have to start thinking about that again because I want to do it one day, I really want to,” Ripley said.

The good news is that the WWE Universe has shown n multiple occasions how they can spot even the smallest reference to a franchise or character in superstar gear, so fingers crossed this one finally happens.
Speaking of Dragon Ball, Ripley has said that Android 18 is the character she’s most like in the franchise. So the question is, who represents Nikki?

Ripley said “Oh, who’s the person that… That’s difficult. Who would it be?”

Also, no pressure, since the fanart is going to fly in when the choice is made.

“I know, I know. Oh my gosh. I want to say that she’s a lot like Gohan, especially when he was in his Superman stages,” Ripley said. “Yeah, there you go, guys. Start making it. Put me as Zeno really angry in the back while she’s being…what was it? Saiyaman, Saiyaman, that’s what it was.”

You can catch Rhea Ripley and Nikki A.S.H. every week on Monday Night Raw, which airs at 8 PM EST on USA Network.

Credit: ComicBook.com

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WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles Match: Natalya and Tamina Snuka vs. Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley

We go back to the ring and out come WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley. They cut a pre-recorded promo on how they were drafted to the same brand. Nikki and Ripley hit the ring and get ready as we go back to commercial.

Back from the break and Natalya and Tamina Snuka are wrapping their entrances. We get formal ring introductions from Rome. Natalya starts off with Nikki and unloads, taking her to the corner and delivering knees. Nikki escapes and dropkicks the knee out. Nikki sends Natalya to the floor. Nikki follows and rocks Natalya, then chases her back in.

Tamina tags in and levels Nikki with a big boot. Tamina takes Nikki to the corner, then launches her across the ring by her hair. Tamina with a corner clothesline and a headbutt. Tamina shows off some to boos. Nikki avoids a Samoan Drop and turns it into a Sleeper hold. Tamina tosses her tot he mat, then drops her with a superkick. Nikki kicks out at 2 as Ripley makes the save.

Tamina drags Nikki to their corner and Natalya goes for the Sharpshooter. Nikki rolls her for a 2 count. Nikki tags in Ripley. Natalya meets her with strikes but Ripley fights back. Ripley knocks Tamina off the apron. Ripley with clotheslines to Natalya. Ripley drops Natalya with a stiff headbutt. Ripley drops Natalya and delivers the basement dropkick. Ripley gets fired up as fans pop for her now. Ripley kicks Natalya into the corner.Natalya counters with the Spine Jammer and some of her signature offense.

Ripley counters with a Northern Lights suplex for 2 but Tamina makes the save. Tamina drags Natalya to the corner and tags in but Ripley kicks Tamina off the apron to the floor. Nikki leaps from the top, taking the challengers down at ringside with a crossbody for a pop. Ripley rolls Tamina back in and delivers the Riptide in the middle of the ring. Nikki tags in and sits on Ripley’s shoulders. Ripley slams Nikki on top of Tamina with a splash for the pin to retain.

Winners: Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley

After the match, the champs stand tall as Natalya seethes.

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We see how Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles from Natalya and Tamina Snuka last Monday. Sarah Schreiber is backstage with Nikki and Rhea now. Ripley talks about finding success together as they are opposites but opposites attract, and the titles are what they have in common. They’re still working on their team name but Nikki seems to like “Super Brutality.” Nikki says they need matching attire. She asks Ripley what she thinks of the color blue but Ripley isn’t interested, saying it looks better on Nikki. Nikki asks Schreiber what she thinks about both of them wearing blue capes.

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WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Nikki A.S.H. vs. Natalya

We go back to the ring and out come the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions – Nikki A.S.H. with Rhea Ripley. They head to the ring as fans cheer them on. We see how Nikki and Ripley won the titles from Natalya and Tamina Snuka on RAW. Back to commercial.

Back from the break and the announcers talk about how Edge responded to Seth Rollins via Twitter, and he will be here next week for the beginning of the WWE Draft. We go back to the ring and Natalya is out next with Tamina Snuka. The bell rings and they go at it. They trade counters and Nikki dropkicks Natalya’s knees out, then dropkicks her in the face for a 2 count. Natalya drops Nikki after a referee distraction.

Natalya runs Nikki from corner to corner to corner, then unloads with kicks. Natalya plays to the crowd for a mixed reaction and keeps control. Natalya with a suplex out of the corner for a 2 count. Nikki fights back but Natalya keeps working her over int he corner. Tamina gets on the apron for a distraction now but Rhea comes over and pulls her off. Natalya had Nikki rolled up for a pin but the referee missed most of it. Nikki reverses it for the pin to win.

Winner: Nikki A.S.H.

After the match, Nikki stands tall and Rhea joins her in the ring with the straps. The music hits and out comes Shotzi and Nox, riding the tank to the ringside area. Shotzi fires her missile at the champs and they’re not happy. The two teams taunt each other as Natalya and Tamina yell from the other side of the ringside area.

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Rhea Ripley and Nikki A.S.H was  guests on  on Raw Talk they discuss how they felt beating Tamina and Natalya for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship. Check out the video above to hear all what they had to say!

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The team dubbed as “Super Brutality” Rhea Ripley & Nikki A.S.H. take their first photos as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions.

New WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Rhea Ripley & Nikki A.S.H. are so proud to have won championship gold after dedicating their match to children all over the world who are dealing with pediatric cancer.

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