“I’m Distracted”: Rhea Ripley Blames Damian Priest & Finn Balor for Making Her Look Weak Against Raquel Rodriguez

Finn Balor and Damian Priest have not been on the same page ever since July. The animosity between the two stablemates is clear as fans witness them fight over petty grievances weekly. Due to this, the faction had to deal with losses and embarrassment multiple times. But Rhea Ripley can’t take it anymore.

This week on Raw, she accused her two faction friends of putting the entire responsibility of handling the faction on her and thus distracting her from Raquel Rodriguez. She claimed that this has made her look weak in front of her upcoming opponent on Payback.

Rhea Ripley lashes out at Finn Balor and Damian Priest

During a backstage segment at Monday Night Raw this week, the WWE Universe saw Balor and Priest arguing over JD McDonagh, who has been interfering in The Judgment Day business lately. Balor was in support of McDonagh while Mr. Money in the Bank was against him.

An irate Ripley lashed out at her faction friends for fighting over petty issues and asked them to stop fighting. She ordered them to put up a united front against Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens at Payback this Saturday. She also accused them of distracting her from Rodriguez. 

She said, “Every single week we go on about Judgment Day being the most dominant faction here in the WWE. But then, every single week without fail, we fall apart because you two cannot get along. The only people handling Judgment Day business right now are myself and Dirty Dom.”

“Apart from that…no. But I can’t keep doing it. Because now people have started to target me. They are thinking I’m weak. I’m distracted. People like Raquel Rodriguez,” she added. ‘Mami’ is fed up with Balor and Priest fighting with each other and is not going to sit back and watch them tear each other and the faction down.

Ripley warns Finn Balor and Damian Priest

During the backstage segment, the Women’s World Champion also warned Finn Balor and Damian Priest of the consequences of losing to Zayn and Owens at the upcoming premium live events. She threatened that they either bring the gold to the team on Saturday, or she would make some changes.

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Balor and Priest fighting against each other has caused many problems for other members of the group. For instance, during the 7/3/23 edition of Raw, Dominik Mysterio went one-on-one against Seth Rollins. The referee stopped the bout midway due to Priest interfering.

The latter was just about to cash in his MITB contract and pin Rollins for the win, but Balor interrupted. This resulted in Balor and Priest getting into an argument. Meanwhile, Mysterio tried to stop Rollins from fleeing the ring.

Unfortunately, he had to take a hard insult to the face as Rollins delivered a pedigree on him. Reasons like this made Ripley give her two stable mates the ultimatum on Raw. And if they don’t do as she has asked them to do, then she would have to resort to other means to deal with the two of them.

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