Rhea Ripley will be featured at WWE World today.
The company announced on Twitter that Rhea Ripley will be getting a new tattoo. This will be happening live at WWE World, in the build-up to WrestleMania 40.
The Women’s World Champion already has a number of tattoos. However, the chance to see her add another piece of artwork to her body is something incredibly unique in wrestling. It is especially big for WWE, who have famously been squeamish over talent being inked on camera.
It will take place at the PA Convention Center at 1 pm this afternoon.
The official WWE Twitter account posted:
“Today at 1pm ET, Women’s World Champion @RheaRipley_WWE is getting tattooed LIVE at #WWEWorld!”
WWE World is the relaunch of the WWE Fan Access convention, that has traditionally been held before WrestleMania each year. It gives fans the chance to buy merchandise, meet WWE Superstars and see matches live. It has become a staple of WrestleMania week since 1988.
Rhea Ripley Is Doing What WWE Refused To Let CM Punk
While Rhea Ripley’s live tattooing is being celebrated, this was not always the case in the WWE.
Speaking on his Talk Is Jericho podcast (via CagesideSeats), Chris Jericho revealed that he planned to tattoo his initials on CM Punk, live on TV. This was during their 2012 feud, which culminated in a match at WrestleMania 28.
“With the Punk thing, I wanted something that was really going to be personal. And my idea was to tattoo him. I wanted to tattoo my initials on him, which Vince loved, approved, and then came down to the wire and somebody told him that when you tattoo somebody it bleeds and he got all angry at that and not understanding the concept of a tattoo… And also saying, ‘well, he’s got so many tattoos, what’s one more going to do?’ And I was like, ‘you don’t understand, a tattoo is a personal choice.’ You know, it’s like a girl has a lascivious lifestyle and has sex with a guy every night that’s her choice but if someone rapes her, that’s wrong. Same with tattooing.”
“If I tattoo my initials on him, it doesn’t matter if he’s got 1,000, he’s always going to see that and remember it. Vince didn’t like it, changed it around so then we had to kind of sit down and literally right before the show we were going to do the tattooing, where do we go? We kind of went into the whole Punk’s dad had alcoholic issues. … (Punk) loved (the idea of the tattoo). It was real. I was going to tattoo him for real. He loved it. So we were both kind of disappointed because we thought it would be great.”
