Interview w/ WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion Sol Ruca

The Rich Eisen Show

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4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off of winning the WWE Intercontinental Women's Championship from Becky Lynch at "Clash in Italy", Sol Ruca joins O'Shea and T.J. on No-Contest Wrestling! Sol shares how she went from gymnastics - she competed at the University of Oregon - and doing activities like surfing and cliff diving ("I love heights") to becoming a WWE Superstar. She discusses what she learned at NXT and gets emotional describing her Ladder Match win at last years "Stand & Deliver" PLE when she became the NXT Women's North American Champion. Sol also reveals the move she hates taking the most, her favorite Disney songs, her WrestleMania Dream Matches and more! O'Shea and T.J. also break down the full "Clash in Italy" PLE card and predict the winners of the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Wednesday episode of the No Contest Wrestling
0:34.9	Podcast.
0:35.7	I am the heel that you love to hate
0:38.4	O'Shea Jackson, Jr. A. K-A. Petty Guerrero. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the T-O. The J-I-G. Two-Jigger. T.J. Jefferson. Some, man. I know I got my hoochie daddy's on. I know y'all see the shins. I mean, I'm Shinshaye Nakamura right now.
0:55.9	All right.
0:57.5	I'm Shane-Shay Nakamura right now. All right, man. I'm feeling real good about today because we have. Yes. So Ruka coming on. Say it again. Say it again. So Ruka. Universe. So Ruka will be joining NCW today.
1:11.3	I had to go California on it.
1:12.9	I got a hoodie on with shorts.
1:14.2	I don't know what the weather.
1:15.3	Current women's intercontinental champion as she had that big win at Clash in Italy.
1:22.6	Right.
1:23.1	You think they can enjoy Italy or they just like focused?
1:25.9	Well, based upon everyone's Instagrams that I've been seeing,
1:28.5	they look like, you know, the work play balances pretty evenly distributed.
1:33.5	Looks like they're doing the work, but they're also out there having fun.
1:36.3	And how could you not kind of tour of, you know, Europe?
1:39.9	Dude.
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