Rhea Ripley credits Shane Haste with coming up with the Riptide as her finisher:
“I was just trying things. I was practicing with Tegan [Nox], and Shane was feeding me different moves to try. He’s like, ‘Try the Pump Handle Slam,’ and I was like, ‘Okay.’ I tried it and I was like, ‘That’s really cool.’ I did it for a little bit going into the second Mae Young [Classic] and then obviously NXT UK.
I would sit out with it and that was the way that I would do it for a while, and then my butt just hurt too bad. I was like, ‘I can’t do this. This is gonna really screw up my back later on, so I’m just gonna start going to my knees.’
So that’s how it all came to life. It was really Shane Haste’s idea.”
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