Behind the scenes footage emerges of Rhea Ripley and Mercedes Martinez steel cage match on NXT Super Tuesday II
New behind the scenes video footage has emerged of the steel cage match between Rhea Ripley and Mercedes Martinez at NXT Super Tuesday II.
The video, which has been released on the WWE Performance Center’s YouTube channel, shows how both women prepared for the match, which took place on Tuesday 8 September 2020.
Ripley, the former NXT Women’s Champion spoke in the video about her previous history with Martinez, when she wrestled her in Australia as a 17 year old.
“She beat the c**p out of me and I lost.”
Fast-forward to 2020, Ripley and Martinez are facing each other again, but their match is taking place in a steel cage.
In the ending of the match, Ripley drives Martinez through a table with a Riptide off the second rope and pins her to win the steel cage match, titled “The Battle of the Badasses”.
After the match, Ripley added:
“To have my first one-v-one cage match was very painful.
“Tonight, it was just me and Mercedes Martinez and it was exhilarating. It was everything I wanted to ever do.”
You can watch the behind the scenes video of the steel cage match between Rhea Ripley and Mercedes Martinez in the YouTube video below.
