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When WWE superstar Rhea Ripley was victorious in Saturday’s women’s match at the annual Elimination Chamber event, she secured a championship match at WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas next month against Jade Cargill.
Both Cargill and Ripley quickly took to social media, trash-talking one another in what most assumed was the start of the promotion for the eventual match.
After all, the safe approach in pro wrestling is to assume that everything is part of the script.
But the trash talk quickly broke containment, with other women quickly joining in to side with Ripley, even if they weren’t a part of the on-screen feud. What once looked like good promotion tactics quickly spiraled, turning into an ugly beef that could land each of them in hot water with the company.
Rhea Ripley And Jade Cargill Have Some Real Life Beef
The online arguing seemed to begin innocently enough, with fellow WWE women’s wrestler quote-tweeting a post and writing, “Rhea is proof that you can be kind, respectful, and the most talented wrestler in the world.”
Cargill seemingly thought the post was directed at her because she responded to Green, saying, “It’s no point to even go and embarrass you on this app. You always have something to say about everything.”
That’s when Green made it clear that, while she did not signify it was about Cargill, that was the intended audience.
“D—. Hit dogs really DO holler!! WOOF WOOF b—-,” she said to Cargill.
Another WWE women’s wrestler, Nia Jax, then retweeted Green’s post.
So, where does Ripley come in?
On March 1, Ripley responded to a Cargill tweet saying, “All you seem to do is talk… And that’s literally it.”
To which Cargill replied, “Talk??? Like the hours you spend talking to creative?”
The response was meant to imply that Ripley does a lot of behind-the-scenes politicking in WWE, which was the first sign that maybe this wasn’t part of the plan.
The two continued to go back-and-forth over multiple tweets, leading people to wonder what was going on. On Monday, Ripley made it clear that it wasn’t all fun and games.
Rhea Ripley with a message following her back and forth with Jade Cargill on social media:
(rhearipley_wwe | Instagram) pic.twitter.com/M3TbypF8V1
— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) March 2, 2026
In a since-deleted Instagram post, she wrote, “Not having fun. Not friends. Learn to work and never lie to defame someone’s real human character by ‘breaking the 4th wall.'”
Now, these days, WWE has pulled the curtain back for everyone. They even have a Netflix show titled WWE Unreal, meant to do just that.
So perhaps Ripley, Cargill, and company are leaning all the way in. In fact, the best way to blur the lines again is to make the beef seem as real as possible.
But if that’s the case, they’re doing an A+ job.