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00:00It was a bit of a freak incident.
00:01It wasn't a target attack by Jade Cargill and Bianca on the knee.
00:05They weren't trying to put her out for good or anything like that.
00:08I think as competitors, we realize, hey, sometimes things just go wrong
00:12and there's nothing you can do about it.
00:14It's just one of those things.
00:15I don't think the specter of that is going to hang over Asuka here.
00:18So, Jackie, Jade Cargill's never had an opportunity
00:22to singles championship in WWE.
00:24In your opinion, who is this match more important to,
00:29Jade or Asuka?
00:30I think Jade.
00:31I think Jade for some of the reasons I mentioned before.
00:34And also, you bring up the tag team division, right?
00:36Like, a lot of Jade Cargill's success so far in WWE
00:39has been with the help of one of the best women superstars we've ever seen
00:42in the EST of WWE, Bianca Belair.
00:45I think this is a huge, huge statement-making opportunity for Jade Cargill
00:50to say, hey, not only am I more than my looks and my strength and my voice,
00:55I can do this in the ring and I can do it by myself.
00:58Asuka's already proven that she can do that.
01:00I mean, the girls want everything, right?
01:01So, for me, it's all about Jade Cargill tonight for me.
01:05I kind of agree.
01:06I think it is more important for Jade.
01:08Obviously, it's huge either way and both women want to win it,
01:10but I think Asuka has been to the mountaintop several times already.
01:14Jade Cargill is still clambering to get up there,
01:17and this could be the night that really puts her to the very top.
01:20The crowd loves Asuka, though.
01:21We've learned that.
01:22And remember, last year's Queen of the Ring, Nia Jax,
01:25went on to SummerSlam and won a championship by beating Bayley.
01:29Also tonight, two of the most powerful women in WWE are in action.
01:33For the first time ever in Saudi Arabia, it is a street fight.
01:37Raquel Rodriguez rekindles a longtime rivalry with Rhea Bloody Ripley.
01:45Street fight here tonight.
01:46When I first came to the Performance Center, I felt very alone.
01:56And Raquel, she was one that I sort of just gravitated to instantly.
02:04We sort of just felt like we only had each other.
02:08We had each other's backs when no one else did.
02:13This is my friend.
02:14I love her very much.
02:16I love you very much.
02:19We actually got matching R&R tattoos.
02:22That's how close we are.
02:24Well, we were.
02:26I guess things change.
02:29People change.
02:31Raquel Rodriguez!
02:35Assaulting Rhea Ripley!
02:37Rhea Ripley thinks she runs Monday Night Raw.
02:40Rhea is the strongest and most dominant female in all of WWE, except for me.
02:48Rhea Chiquita, the only reason you rose to the top is because I was gone.
02:54I am not going to let Rhea run through our division.
02:58The winner of the Queen of the Ring gets an opportunity at a championship at SummerSlam.
03:03Wait a minute.
03:07Raquel Rodriguez, where did she come from?
03:12Raquel, you really tried to paint yourself in a pretty little picture.
03:17Like you didn't deserve the beatings that I've been giving you.
03:20See, the difference between you and I is when you betrayed me, it was with malice and ego.
03:27Where everything I've done to you has been deserved.
03:32Uh-oh!
03:33Ha, ha, ha!
03:35Rhea Ripley just tossed Raquel Rodriguez!
03:40Turnabout is fair play!
03:43Rhea!
03:44You're not going to screw me out of Queen of the Ring and get away with it!
03:51I can drag you out here by that nose ring, or you can make it easy for yourself.
03:58And get in here and take the beating you deserve, Mamona!
04:05Be careful what you wish for, Raquel!
04:11Look at the fury in the eyes of Mami!
04:14You want tables, Mamona!
04:16You want tables!
04:18Uh-oh, Roxanne Perez from behind!
04:20I want Raquel!
04:34How about Night of Champions?
04:38Yeah, sounds good.
04:39What a street fight.
04:40Even better.
04:42Well, these two have a hell of a history.
04:45Former best friends, now mortal enemies.
04:47And the smartest thing for you to do is walk away.
04:52But we all know you're not going to do that.
04:55So since you won't end this, I will.
05:00Raquel's not the same person that I knew back then.
05:03And you're gonna have to kill me to stop me!
05:07Well, Ria, to say the tension was palpable between you and Raquel at yesterday's kickoff event might be a massive understatement.
05:26I know you guys have a ton of history, but for our viewers, like, what's at the root of this hatred that you guys so clearly have for each other?
05:35I mean, look, you can go on YouTube and you can witness it for yourself.
05:39There is clear evidence as to how this all started.
05:42And it's all Raquel's fault.
05:44Like, I cannot take the blame here at all because we were best friends in NXT.
05:49I looked at her like she was a sister to me.
05:50I didn't have my family when I moved over here.
05:52I was very vulnerable, very shy, very timid.
05:56And she's the one that I latched onto and I loved like a sister.
06:00And then once I started skyrocketing and getting the success that I got,
06:05and I got to face Shayna Baszler for the title, the NXT Women's Championship, that's when she turned.
06:12And everything that we had together disappeared.
06:16All the matching tattoos, all the traveling together buddies.
06:19We got so many matching tattoos.
06:21So I always have a reminder on me somewhere of what she meant to me and what she has done to me.
06:27And now it comes down to this, a street fight.
06:30She has experience in this situation.
06:31She was saying yesterday after this match, it's going to be all about Raquel.
06:36This is your first ever street fight.
06:38What are you willing to do to get the win over Raquel and prove your point?
06:43What am I willing to do?
06:45I mean, anything.
06:46Anything and absolutely everything.
06:48We went to war in NXT and we had a last woman standing match.
06:52We've had a no-holds-barred match.
06:54We're one for one.
06:55She kicked me out of NXT and I kicked her out of the main roster pretty much.
06:59So this one, it's the lucky middle one.
07:03And we're going to see who's going to triumph and be victorious.
07:06But I will stop at absolutely nothing to put her through the ground and keep her there.
07:11Because she's a thorn in my side since NXT.
07:13And I'm so sick and tired of her playing the victim.
07:17Like it's always been all about me and I've been a golden child because I haven't.
07:20She knows the struggles and all the stuff that I've had to go through to get to where I am today.
07:26So whenever she says stuff like that, it pisses me off to a point that I want to smash her face in.
07:31So that's what you're going to see tonight.
07:32All right.
07:33One last one for you.
07:35You know, ever since you dropped your championship, you've had some opportunities to get back in the title picture.
07:40Money in the Bank, Queen of the Ring.
07:42How important do you think this win is, aside from all the personal stuff, just to get back into the championship picture?
07:50It's my baby.
07:51It's my baby.
07:52And I'm going to stop at nothing to get my baby back.
07:56And I know that I've had triumphs.
07:58I've had down periods.
07:59I've gone through that roller coaster of emotions.
08:01I've got wins.
08:02I've got losses.
08:03I've done things that I'm not so proud of to get to places that I've wanted to be.
08:08And that's what I'm going to have to do again.
08:10I'm going to have to go through people to get what I want.
08:13Because at the end of the day, if I don't want the championship, then what the hell am I doing in this business?
08:17If I don't want to be the top dog, then what the hell am I doing here in the WWE?
08:21If I do not want to be the best that I can be, then why don't I just quit?
08:26So I'm so sick and tired of people being like, oh, Rhea shouldn't want the championship.
08:31No, Rhea bloody Ripley wants the bloody championship.
08:34I want the gold.
08:35I want to be the top dog.
08:36This is my provision, and I've got to prove and show everyone exactly who Rhea bloody Ripley is once again.
08:42All right.
08:43Well, the intensity is emanating off of you.
08:45You talk about going through people.
08:46I guess that starts tonight with Raquel in a street fight.
08:49Thank you for this, and good luck tonight.
08:52Well, very fired up and emotional, Rhea Ripley, in that interview.
08:55I want to talk about the early days first.
08:57And back in 2021, last woman standing match between Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley,
09:04a bit similar to what we'll see tonight in the street fight.
09:07Raquel won that match.
09:09Does that play at all into tonight?
09:11100%.
09:11I was there for that match.
09:13I was at the desk in NXT calling that match.
09:15I saw up close and personal just how heated things got between the two of them.
09:20And I believe that Rhea Ripley is a bully.
09:24And I don't mean that as an insult.
09:25She's a bully in ring.
09:27She physically bullies all of her opponents.
09:30The one issue with Raquel is that Rhea Ripley simply cannot because Raquel is bigger.
09:35Raquel is stronger.
09:36And I believe Raquel is tougher than Rhea bloody Ripley.
09:39But, Jackie, after that last woman standing match, Rhea has never lost a match to Raquel Rodriguez from that point on.
09:46So I think Raquel probably has that in her mind as well.
09:49I would imagine she does.
09:50I mean, what Rhea Ripley has accomplished in WWE is undeniable.
09:54What's interesting to me is the recent run that Rhea...