Ripley and Matthews have been collectively publicly for 2 years.
Rhea Ripley and Buddy Matthews have publicly been an merchandise since 2022. The 2 Australian wrestlers spent 4 years in WWE collectively, the place Matthews competed as Buddy Murphy, earlier than he left the corporate in 2021 and took his skills to AEW. The 2’s relationship went public two years in the past, when Matthews was already in AEW, making the pair the newest cross-promotional couple throughout the skilled wrestling business, following matches like Keith Lee and Mia Yim, Malakai Black and Zelina Vega, and Andrade El Idolo and Charlotte Aptitude earlier than Andrade headed again to WWE earlier this 12 months. Ripley and Matthews have been engaged in August 2023.
Rhea Ripley and Buddy Matthews Get Married
Rhea Ripley and Buddy Matthews have been married earlier this month.
Taking to Instagram, the previous WWE Girls’s World Champion revealed that she and now-husband Buddy Matthews have been married on June twenty third.
Ripley is presently away from WWE as she recovers from a shoulder harm. After efficiently defending her WWE Girls’s World Championship towards Becky Lynch at WWE WrestleMania 40, Ripley was attacked by a returning Liv Morgan on the WWE Monday Evening Uncooked after Mania. Throughout the assault, Ripley hit her shoulder exhausting towards a wall, leading to her needing to take time away from the ring and consequently relinquish her WWE Girls’s World Championship. Whereas preliminary estimates had Ripley being shelved for six months, present rumblings point out that she might be again in time for WWE SummerSlam in August. Even whereas she is away from programming, Ripley has been a centerpiece of WWE Monday Evening Uncooked‘s high storyline, as Morgan has tried to stay below her pores and skin by pursuing Ripley’s on-screen love curiosity Dominik Mysterio.
Matthews was not too long ago written off of AEW tv with an harm angle that was emphasised to be “100% a piece.” This was apparently carried out to provide him day without work to get married. Matthews has spent his complete AEW tenure as a member of Home of Black, a spooky steady alongside former WWE rival Malakai Black, Brody King, and Julia Hart. Matthews discovered success with Home of Black as AEW Trios Champions, because the group defeated The Elite (Kenny Omega and the Younger Bucks) to seize the titles again at AEW Revolution 2023. They misplaced the titles to The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn at AEW ALL IN: London final August. Matthews’s AEW contract is reportedly a five-year deal, that means he’s on the corporate’s books till early 2027.
