During a recent talk on “Jazzy’s World” podcast, WWE superstar Rhea Ripley shared that she plans to delay motherhood in order to focus on her demanding career. Ripley expressed her preference not to subject future children to the travel demands of her job.
Rhea iterated, “If you think about it this way as well a lot of us we get motherhood taken away for a long time. I’m still young, yes, but I worked for WWE. It’s very demanding. I probably can’t have kids for the next five to ten years because I don’t want to have to bring them on the road and put them through that. I’m not good at that, but then you look at someone like Becky Lynch, who did go and have a kid and did come back and is still the badass, the man. She is herself and she’s a great mother while she does that. She brings Roux on the road every now and then and she’s absolutely killing it. But yeah, we get a lot taken away from us or pushed back, and I don’t think people really realize that.”
Also in the podcast realm, former WWE Tough Enough contestant, Zamariah “ZZ” Loupe made an appearance on the “Developmentally Speaking” podcast. Loupe opened up about feeling targeted during his time in WWE, and how there were misperceptions that he was attempting to imitate the beloved Dusty Rhodes.
Loupe recounted, “When I first got to the WWE Performance Center, the day I walked in for the mini-camp before Tough Enough began, I had a target plastered on my back. Straight out of the gate. I didn’t know who Dusty Rhodes was, but apparently, the day that I got to the WWE Performance Center for the mini-camp tryout before Tough Enough aired, Dusty Rhodes went to the hospital, and he passed away while I was in the mini-camp. So many people there thought that I was trying to gimmick infringe Dusty. Dusty was a fun-loving guy from the south and told jokes and was happy and smiled a lot. Here I come, the day Dusty Rhodes passed, smiling and happy, and I have a little bit of an accent. People didn’t realize that I didn’t have a clue who that was when I got there and I wasn’t trying to replicate anybody. Then I learn. ‘Ah, I got you.’ It took a couple of months for people to realize that’s just who I was and I wasn’t trying to gimmick infringe on Dusty. What I learned through Dusty, even though I never got the chance to meet him, if I didn’t know anybody and I was in their shoes, I probably would have thought the same thing. That was the first big hurdle I had to get over before anything else.”