Pod Meets Wrestlemania: Rhea Ripley
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
She’s a 2x Women’s World Champion and a WWE Raw Women’s Champion, but Danielle and Will need to know…did Boy Meets World ever make it down to Australia??
Even though Rhea Ripley left Danielle speechless, they’re still able to talk about appearance based jobs, when to jump into “character” and how far is…too far?
Plus, we hear some other in-ring name options that didn’t quite make the cut, and we find out what the champ, CM Punk, is REALLY like backstage.
It’s the first guest of Wrestlemania 42 and we’re starting out strong!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. Will? |
| 0:25.7 | Yes, Danielle. |
| 0:27.4 | I am starstruck. |
| 0:29.5 | I know. |
| 0:30.3 | This very, very rarely happens. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm not sure how on my game I'm going to be for this interview. |
| 0:36.0 | So feel free to save me if I start, like, stuttering or if I just freeze at any moment. I don't think I've ever seen you. We've been with some incredibly famous people. I've never seen you like this. I feel like underneath my skin is bubbling. Okay. It's a very weird feeling. Let me just, let me just read you some very, very important things. |
| 0:54.5 | Please. She is the two-time women's world champion, a former raw women's champion, |
| 0:59.5 | NXT UK champion, NXT women's champion, two-time tag team champion, the winner of the |
| 1:06.3 | 2023 Royal Rumble, a triple crown champ, a grand slam champ, and this weekend, she can add to those |
| 1:13.7 | accolades when she faces the current champion Jade Cargill on night two of WrestleMania, |
| 1:19.8 | live from Las Vegas, our guest on PodMeets World, and my wrestling crush is Ria Ripley. |
| 1:27.5 | Wow, you're so excited. I'm so excited. You have no idea this. A world and my wrestling crush is Ria Ripley. Wow. |
| 1:27.9 | You're so excited. I'm so excited. You have no idea. There's a big moment for me. It's also our first interview of this weekend. I'm like, could we not have eased me into it at all? I was going to say, I talked about you sitting here. I'm now glad there's a buffer between the two of you. You need to be between us. I'm here. I think this is a better place to be, if I'm honest with you. |
| 1:45.9 | I think you're right. |
| 1:46.8 | Ria, thank you so much. there's a buffer between the two of you. You need to be between us. I think it's better than I'm here. I think this is a better place to be, if I'm honest with you. |
| 1:45.9 | I think you're right. |
| 1:46.8 | Ria, thank you so much for joining us. No problem. Thanks for having me. That's a great introduction. We always ask this of an international guest like yourself. Did you get Boy Meets World in Australia or are we just two random middle age podcast hosts to you? |
| 2:02.6 | I'm guessing B. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah. Did you get Boy Meets World in Australia or are we just two random middle-aged podcast hosts to you? I'm guessing B. Yeah, I don't think I got it in Australia. Okay, yeah. I also didn't really watch too much growing up either because, like, I was too busy being a sporty kid. Right. So like I just was always doing things on the weekend. That was my only real time and I just |
| 2:18.0 | watched wrestling. That was about it. Wow. Okay. So yeah, we just flew right by your radar. |
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