Chelsea Green said she feels no pressure about an eventual Women’s Championship unification match with Rhea Ripley because the pressure sits on the other side.
Green won the Interim Women’s Championship in a five-woman ladder match on night two of SummerSlam. The title was created while Ripley, the reigning WWE Women’s Champion, is out with an injury.
Speaking on Complex Graps, Green said the matchup works for her either way.
“Look, I said this during the ladder match and I’ll say it again. This is a win-win for me. Because at the end of the day, I was surrounded in that ladder match by… women who had won a bunch of titles. And I was out here just scratching and clawing for my life. It’s the same thing with Rhea. Like, she has something to lose, I don’t.”
“So if I lose, I lost to quite possibly the greatest female wrestler ever. If she loses to me, she lost to a comedy gal. She lost to the girl from Unreal, she lost to an indie wrestler, she lost to the underdog. And I love that for me. I’m going to go into it and I’m just going to do my best. That’s all I can do, you know? But I’m going to need a couple energy drinks before I have to face her. That’s for sure.”
Green said she has not been told how the unification will be handled.
“I don’t have any idea what’s happening tomorrow, okay? I don’t know who I’m talking to an hour from now for media. Like, I have no idea what’s going on. But I love to fly by the seat of my pants. One thing about me is, I work best under pressure. When someone gives me a script last-minute, I love fighting for my life, and I’ve been doing that for so long that it just comes naturally now.”
She added that a t-shirt is set to drop on Friday that will make her feelings about the word “interim” clear.