Rhea Ripley and Buddy Matthews engaged

[Chris]

WWE's Rhea Ripley and AEW's Buddy Matthews have announced their engagement.

Ripley posted a photo to her Instagram page on Wednesday wearing an engagement ring with the caption:

1000x YES! Pure F---ing happiness! ❤️

Ripley, the WWE Women's World Champion, and Matthews, an AEW World Trios Champion, went public with their relationship in 2022.

Matthews, 34, real name Matthew Adams, and Ripley, 26, real name Demi Bennett, are both natives of Australia.

Ripley signed with WWE in 2017 and made her company debut as part of the first Mae Young Classic. Ripley went on to become the inaugural NXT UK Women's Champion, and also held the NXT Women's title. She moved to the Raw brand in 2021, and has since held the Raw Women's Championship, and the SmackDown Women's Championship, later renamed the Women's World Championship. She was also the winner of the 2023 women's Royal Rumble.

Matthews signed with WWE in 2013 and wrestled as Buddy Murphy on the NXT brand until 2017. He moved to the 205 Live brand in 2018, and was part of the Raw and SmackDown brands prior to being released by the company in 2021. He joined AEW as a free agent in February 2022, and won the Trios title with Brody King & Malakai Black in March 2023.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/rhea-ripley-buddy-matthews-get-engaged

 

[Butters]

Looks like Buddy won in the end.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Checkmate for Buddy and theirs no more moves to make. I'm happy for the both of them.

 

[O-Blaze]

Dom's gonna crash the wedding like he's Taylor Swift in Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

 

[Storm Trooper]

@#RicSolarFlair condolences on your loss.

 

[#Waddles]

This is an onion article.

And that's a picture of me guys, for real.

 

[Jay-Ashley]

Now realized Buddy Murphy could be Mike Bennett's brother

 

[#Waddles]

^ I was thinking more Curt Hawkins

 

[Jay-Ashley]

That is who I was thinking of, but couldn't remember the name lol so I agree

 

[#Waddles]

That is who I was thinking of, but couldn't remember the name lol so I agree

You cool ATL.

 

[BSE]

This is an onion article.

And that's a picture of me guys, for real.

Congratulations on your engagement! Save me a seat at the wedding.