On a recent edition of “The West Sport” podcast, WWE Superstar Indi Hartwell lavished praise on Rhea Ripley, labeling her as an inspiration for Australian wrestlers.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Rhea Ripley: “Yeah, it seems that I’m always a few steps behind her, she’s always champion when I’m trying to become champion, but having Rhea — even though she’s two months younger than me — she’s definitely someone I look up to. I think she’s someone that a lot of men and women can look up to, especially Australians, to have like a figure like her in WWE. She’s one of the top Superstars there and I use her as inspiration. I love to see her journey and hopefully one day win the title off her.”
On when she first met Ripley: “Rhea and I actually met each other before we both started wrestling. We met each other as fans, like meeting the WWE Superstars at the airport when they came to Australia. So we met when we were like 15 or 16 and I don’t think she had started wrestling then. I certainly hadn’t started wrestling yet. But I went to Adelaide to wrestle and we knew each other but she’s always been a few steps ahead of me. So when I was really breaking into wrestling in Australia, that’s when she was off to WWE so it’s not really until now that we’ve really been in the same place for a while.”
