Rhea Ripley has been one of the top stars in the WWE women’s division for years now and there’s no denying that she’s taken her career to a whole new level since she joined The Judgment Day in 2022.
Currently Rhea is the WWE Women’s World Champion and people all around the world refer to her as Mami. Recently Rhea Ripley spoke to Sam Roberts on NotSamWrestling and she explained the origin of her now infamous nickname.
“[Mami] was a Priest thing. I went out there, came back after kneeing myself in the face and busting my front two teeth, I had braces for a week, it was great. I came back from that, and we came back on Rey’s anniversary. That’s where I decided to be a little menace, be myself, and I ordered an Eddie Guerrero shirt and I came out with ‘I’m Your Papi’ shirt, just to see what was going to happen from that. That was a me call and just me doing something that I thought was right and I wanted to stir the pot a little bit.
I started the whole Papi thing, I got told I couldn’t be Papi, so Priest was like, ‘Well, you’re Mami.’ I was like, ‘Damn straight I’m Mami. We’re going to roll with that.’ The Mami thing makes me feel comfortable. I just got out there and I’m a child version of myself. I go out there, have fun, do little menace things, make fun of people. Just going out there and having fun.”
H/T Fightful
