Liv Morgan’s Long History With Rhea Ripley, Explained

At WrestleMania 40, Rhea Ripley had the highest of highs when she defeated Becky Lynch to retain her WWE Women’s World Championship. On the following Raw, however, she was attacked backstage by a revenge-seeking Liv Morgan. While meant to start their feud, it instead resulted in a real life injury which forced Ripley to drop her title. Liv Morgan lost her chance to capture that title in a recent battle royal, but she later found herself with the strap around her waist. In the time since, the feud between the pair has escalated and escalated. Some fans may be unaware though that Ripley and Morgan have been intertwined in their WWE paths before, making this feud all the more personal.

Rhea Ripley And Liv Morgan Were In A Tag Team Together

Liv 4 Brutality Lost A Women’s Tag Team Championship Match At WrestleMania 38

• Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan started out as opponents before becoming a Raw babyface tag team.
• Liv Morgan took the pin in a Women’s Tag Team Championship loss at WrestleMania.
• Rhea Ripley walked away from Liv Morgan on the Raw after WrestleMania.

Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley began working together as a tag team in March 2022 after first being opponents. Known as Liv 4 Brutality, the babyface pair quickly became a fun babyface team, not known only for dominating their opponents in the ring, then celebrating with Morgan jumping in Ripley’s arms after, but their high energy backstage interviews.

At WrestleMania 38, Liv 4 Brutality competed for the Women’s Tag Team Champions on Night Two in a Fatal Four-Way against the championship team of Carmella and Queen Zelina, Natalya and Shayna Baszler, and Sasha Banks and Naomi. It was, of course, Banks and Naomi who won the match, with Liv Morgan taking the pin. On the Raw after WrestleMania, after another loss, a frustrated Ripley walked away from Morgan.

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Rhea Ripley Attacked Liv Morgan On An Episode Of Raw

Rhea Ripley Was Sick Of Losing With Liv Morgan As Her Partner

• Rhea Ripley turned on Liv Morgan with a brutal beatdown.
• Ripley beat Liv Morgan in almost every match they had.
• Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, and Asuka were the final three in the 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble.

Liv 4 Brutality stayed together, but after losing a championship match to Banks and Naomi on the April 18, 2022 Raw, Ripley finally had enough and attacked her partner in the ring, giving Morgan a Riptide. The next week, as Ripley explained in a backstage interview that the attack happened because she had “finally opened her eyes”, Morgan struck, taking out her former friend. It led to a one-on-one match on the May 9 Raw, won by the future Mami, with the original formation of Judgment Day, Edge and Damian Priest, watching on. A few weeks later, they met again, this time in the mixed tag team match of Morgan and AJ Styles vs. Ripley and Priest. With some outside interference from Edge, Rhea Ripley once again beat Liv Morgan.

They met once more on the next week’s Raw in singles competition, with Morgan finally being able to conquer her foe. This led to a six-person mixed tag team match at Hell in a Cell, with Judgment Day battling Liv Morgan, AJ Styles, and Finn Balor. Unfortunately for Liv, she was on the losing side once again. Their next big encounter came at the 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble, as the final three competitors came down to Ripley, Morgan, and Asuka. Ripley eliminated both women. As Ripley geared up for a WrestleMania 39 match with SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair, she faced Morgan on the blue brand show and beat her yet again. At nearly every turn, Ripley was dominating her one time friend.

Liv Morgan Was Written Off WWE TV After Rhea Ripley Beat Her With A Chair

Liv Morgan Had A Real Life Shoulder Injury

• Rhea Ripley became the WWE Women’s World Champion.
• Liv Morgan became WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions with Raquel Rodriguez.
• Morgan had an interesting moment with Dominik Mysterio on Raw.

Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley found success apart in 2023, with Ripley beating everyone in her path as the Women’s World Champion and Liv Morgan becoming Women’s Tag Team Champions with Raquel Rodriguez. Ripley couldn’t let the success stand though, leading to a backstage brawl between the three champions on the July 17 Raw. Later in the night, during a tag team championship match with Sonya Deville and Chelsea Green, Morgan took the pinfall due to her injuries from the earlier attack. Enraged, she got her revenge on Ripley later in the night when Mami was ringside for a Dominik Mysterio match.

The next week, they were set to meet on Raw in a singles match one more time, but Ripley savagely beat up Morgan before the bell, working on her shoulder and injuring it with a chair. This was done to write off Morgan, who had injured her shoulder in real life.

Rhea Ripley & Liv Morgan Have Had A Fully-Fledged Feud In 2024

Liv Morgan’s Revenge Tour Met Rhea Ripley

• Liv Morgan inadvertently injured Rhea Ripley in real life.
• This injury played into a storyline which saw Liv Morgan win the Women’s World Championship.
• Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan have played tug of war over the love of Dominik Mysterio.

At the 2024 Royal Rumble, Liv Morgan made her return to WWE after several months on the shelf. In an ironic twist, Morgan, who was gone for six months because of an injury at the hands of Rhea Ripley in a storyline, then accidentally injured Ripley’s own shoulder for real during their backstage brawl. This threw a spanner in WWE’s plans, but they managed to find a way to add fire to the story with this new hurdle. After Ripley had to vacate the gold, it was initially won by Becky Lynch, but thanks to Dominik Mysterio’s interference, Liv Morgan picked up the Women’s World Championship at the King & Queen of the Ring PLE.

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Morgan became obsessed with Mysterio in what looked at first to be mind games to the absent Ripley, but eventually turned into something more real. Each week, there were more and more teases of Mysterio being swayed by Morgan, until Ripley made her comeback to WWE programming. At first, she was furious with Mysterio, but as the weeks went on, he managed to win back her trust, especially since he cut a scathing promo on Morgan.

Liv Morgan Stole Dominik Mysterio From Rhea Ripley

They Are WWE’s Most Hated Couple

• Mysterio sided with Morgan at SummerSlam 2024.
• This led to a full Rhea Ripley babyface turn.
• Morgan and Mysterio get huge heat from WWE’s audiences.

After successfully becoming the Women’s World Champion, Liv Morgan’s pursuits of Dominik Mysterio proved to ultimately be a success. It was never definitively revealed whether it was a big plan all along from Mysterio or something decided on a whim, but SummerSlam 2024 was the moment where he finally turned his back on ‘Mami’, choosing to engage in a relationship with Liv Morgan instead. He initially aided Morgan in her victory over Ripley in their title match at SummerSlam, before landing a statement kiss on his new love interest. An incensed Ripley could only watch on, heartbroken.

Ripley’s hatred for Morgan continued to grow, as she sought to take down the entire Judgment Day. Luckily, fellow former Judgment Day member Damian Priest was also looking for revenge, so the pair (donned as the Terror Twins) warred with the group. This led to a mixed tag team match at the Bash In Berlin PLE where Ripley and Priest scored a big victory over Mysterio and Morgan, but the feud continued on after this show.

The Feud Between Rhea Ripley & Liv Morgan Is Never-Ending

Ripley & Morgan Cannot Find A Way To Finish Their Rivalry

• Morgan defended the Women’s World Title against Ripley at Bad Blood.
• Ripley was injured in storyline by Morgan.
• There has yet to be a definitive winner in the feud between Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan.

The top end of the RAW women’s division was dominated in 2024 by the storyline involving Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley, with the pair steadily becoming their respective biggest rivals of all time, and therefore carving out a storied history. Their feud stretched on to Bad Blood 2024, where Dominik Mysterio hung from a shark cage. Shenanigans ensued, leading to Raquel Rodriguez (another ex-rival of Ripley) returning to the mix and siding with the heel Morgan, attacking Ripley and allowing her ally to escape as champion. In the following months, the rivalry continued, leading to a legit orbital bone injury for Ripley. She was written off TV with another attack from Morgan, which proved to become a big trend of their rivalry together.

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Fans will be hoping their feud ends at some point, though with them each on opposite sides of WarGames at Survivor Series and the next big PLE being the Royal Rumble all the way in February, this could stretch on, and on, and on.