BREAKING: Rhea Ripley forced to replace IYO SKY on WWE SmackDown

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However, the promotion has just announced that SKY will not be competing tonight, and Ripley will be her replacement in the match against the Women’s United States Champion. You can check out the promotion’s announcement in the post below.

“BREAKING NEWS: @RheaRipley_WWE will replace @Iyo_SkyWWE and face @giulia0221g on #SmackDown tonight, 8/7c on @SYFY!”

Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY are the reigning Women’s Tag Team Champions. Bayley is in an alliance with Lyra Valkyria and suggested that the champions were avoiding having to defend the titles against them earlier today on social media.

Rhea Ripley praises WWE RAW faction

Rhea Ripley recently praised The Vision faction and suggested that they could be featured on the cover of a future WWE 2K video game.

Speaking with Yahoo!, the 29-year-old noted that Austin Theory had just come back from injury, and she wouldn’t mind him being on the cover for the video game in the future. She suggested that the entire faction could be on the cover someday.

“I know he just came back, but Austin Theory is such an amazing athlete and he’s so good at what we do in this profession. So I’d like to see him on a cover at some point, I think that would be awesome. And then you see someone like even Bron Breakker, like the athleticism that man has is nuts. Literally he flies through the air, tackles someone and keeps flying. I don’t know how that is a thing, I just don’t know how it’s physically possible. And with The Vision and how that’s all going with Bronson [Reed] in there too — I can see something happening with all that and maybe the whole group being on the cover as well, just like The Bloodline was. That could be really cool. So maybe those guys.” [H/T Yahoo!]

It will be fascinating to see if Rhea Ripley can defeat Giulia tonight on SmackDown.

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