Rhea Ripley’s triumphant comeback to Monday Night RAW has received a warm reception from WWE fans, a fact shown by the numbers from WWE’s YouTube channel.
At the final stages of the latest episode, Ripley made her surprising return, standing up to ‘Dirty’ Dominik Mysterio when he seemed on the verge of succumbing to Liv Morgan’s overtures.
The YouTube video documenting this moment has rapidly accumulated views; it reached a million views within a mere nine hours and its view count now exceeds 1,400,000, along with over 45,000 likes.
To provide some perspective, the next most popular video from the same episode of WWE RAW (where Dominik is caught in a delicate circumstance with Liv) has only attracted roughly half the number of views and stands at a count of 514,000.
Ripley has been out of the wrestling ring since April, following an injury caused by a behind-the-scenes assault from Liv. This injury led to Morgan being stripped of the Women’s World Championship.