Rhea Ripley

Rhea Ripley
Ripley in 2024
Birth name	Demi Bennett
Born	(1996-10-11) 11 October 1996 (age 28) Adelaide, South Australia
Spouse(s)	Buddy Matthews ​ (m. 2024)​
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Demi Bennett Rhea Ripley
Billed height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[1]
Billed from	Adelaide, South Australia
Trained by	WWE Performance Center Scotty 2 Hotty
Debut	24 May 2014

Demi Bennett (born 11 October 1996) is an Australian professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since July 2017^[update], where she performs under the ring name Rhea Ripley. Her 380-day reign with the Women's World Championship is tied with Bayley as the longest in the title's history.^[2]

After competing on the independent circuit under her real name since 2013, Ripley joined WWE and participated in the inaugural Mae Young Classic in 2017. After reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 edition of the tournament, she was part of the original roster of NXT UK, becoming the inaugural NXT UK Women's Champion in August 2018. After a run on the NXT brand from 2019 to 2021, which saw her win the NXT Women's Championship and become the brand's first member to defend an NXT title at WrestleMania, WWE's flagship event, she was promoted to the main roster on Raw where she joined The Judgment Day in 2022.

In addition to the NXT UK Women's Championship and NXT Women's Championship, she is a former one-time Raw Women's Champion and a former one-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion (with Nikki A.S.H.). After winning the SmackDown Women's Championship in April 2023—which was renamed as Women's World Championship that June—she became the seventh WWE Women's Triple Crown Champion and fifth WWE Women's Grand Slam Champion, as well as the only wrestler to have held all five of these titles. She is also the first female Australian champion in WWE history. Ripley was the 2023 Women's Royal Rumble winner, becoming the fourth wrestler and the first woman to win a Royal Rumble match as the number one entrant.