Rhea Ripley Biography 2026: Mami’s $4M Rise to the Top

Last updated: November 14, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Rhea Ripley is 30 years old in 2026. Born Demiti Bennett — usually written Demi Bennett — on October 11, 1996, in Adelaide, South Australia, she turned 30 on October 11, 2026, weeks before this article was written. She is a two-time Women’s World Champion, a two-time WWE Women’s Champion, the first woman to win the Royal Rumble as the number one entrant, and the only wrestler in WWE history to hold all five of the company’s women’s titles.

Her net worth is estimated at $4 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, inside a reported range of $1 million to $8 million that says a lot about how wrestling money gets counted. She stands 5 feet 7 inches tall, she is married to fellow Australian wrestler Buddy Matthews, and as of November 2026 she is out of action recovering from knee surgery after winning the WWE Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 42. This is the full picture, kept current to November 14, 2026: the Adelaide childhood, the debut at 16, the NXT UK breakthrough, the Judgment Day years, the 380-day reign, the Liv Morgan rivalry, the money, and the injury that has paused the biggest run of her career.

Who Is Rhea Ripley?

Rhea Ripley is an Australian professional wrestler signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Rhea Ripley. Her real name is Demiti Bennett, and she has been wrestling since she was 16 years old. Thirteen years after her debut in a small Adelaide promotion, she is one of the most recognizable women in the sport: a two-time Women’s World Champion, a two-time WWE Women’s Champion, a former NXT Women’s Champion, the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion, and a two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion.

That last line is the one that sets her apart. Ripley is the only wrestler in WWE history to have held all five of those titles, which made her the seventh WWE Women’s Triple Crown Champion and the fifth WWE Women’s Grand Slam Champion. She is also the first female Australian champion in WWE history. The numbers behind the titles are just as sharp: her first reign as Women’s World Champion lasted 380 days, tied with Bayley for the longest in the title’s history, and she won the 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble after entering at number one — the first woman ever to do it, and only the fourth wrestler of either sex.

The ring name was her own choice. SuplexDigest, profiling her in April 2026, reports that she picked “Rhea Ripley” herself as a teenager because it sounded intimidating. The look followed the name: long dark hair with blonde streaks, heavy black eye makeup, chains, spikes and tattoos, and a presence built to fill an arena. Fans call her “Mami” — a nickname that started inside The Judgment Day storyline and became the most marketable word in women’s wrestling. WWE Shop named her one of its top ten merchandise sellers for 2025, and the “Mami” line of shirts and figures is a large part of why.

She is 30, married, and — for the first time in years — sidelined. A torn meniscus suffered at Clash in Italy in late May 2026 led to knee surgery in early August, and WWE created an interim championship while she recovers. She turned 30 on October 11, 2026, and was announced in October for a pre-show appearance at WrestlePalooza: Perth on December 12, 2026, in her home country. The comeback, whenever it comes, will be one of the biggest stories of 2027.

Rhea Ripley Age and Early Life in Adelaide

Demiti Bennett was born on October 11, 1996, in Adelaide, South Australia. She grew up in Glenelg, a beachside suburb of Adelaide, and attended Henley High School through her teenage years. She is of Italian descent through her mother’s side. The arithmetic is straightforward: she was 16 when she debuted in 2013, 20 when she signed with WWE in 2017, 26 when she won her first main-roster world title at WrestleMania 39, and 29 when she won the WWE Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 42 in April 2026. She turned 30 on October 11, 2026.

That last birthday is worth stating plainly because so many biography pages still list her as 28 or 29. WrestleRadar, updated in November 2025, still says 28 in its FAQ. Several 2025 profiles say 29. Both were right when they were written and are wrong now. A page that calls her 28 was written before October 2024; a page that calls her 29 was written before October 2026. If the page you are reading does not mention WrestleMania 42 or the knee injury, it was written before April 2026 and its age is stale.

She was a multi-sport kid before she was a wrestler. Yardbarker’s profile records that she played association football in her youth and was active in swimming, karate, rugby and netball. The wrestling bug came from television: she has cited watching The Miz as a growing-up inspiration for pursuing wrestling as a career. It is a telling detail. The Miz was a reality-television star who talked his way into wrestling and built a two-decade career on persona as much as athleticism — and Ripley, a teenager in Glenelg with no wrestling school on her street, saw a path that started with character and ended in a ring.

Adelaide is not a wrestling town in the way Sydney or Melbourne are, and in 2013 it had no pipeline to WWE. What it had was Riot City Wrestling, a local independent promotion where a 16-year-old could train, and a teenager stubborn enough to start there. She did not wait for permission or a tryout. She walked into the local scene and began.

The Adelaide Indie Years: Debut at 16

Bennett debuted for Riot City Wrestling on June 22, 2013, at the age of 16, wrestling under her real name. She was still at Henley High School. Four years of Australian independent wrestling followed, and she did not spend them waiting around: she became a two-time RCW Women’s Champion, worked shows in Japan with Pro Wrestling Zero1, and built a reputation as a power wrestler with a look and a strike game that stood out on small cards. SuplexDigest, in its April 2026 profile, notes that she was already a champion on multiple Australian independent promotions by 2016, three years into her career.

The indie years matter because they explain the wrestler she became. She learned to work in front of crowds of a few hundred in community halls, where there is no entrance video, no pyro and no hiding a weak match. She learned to carry a promotion’s women’s division as a teenager, to travel, and to wrestle styles that had nothing to do with the WWE house style she would later adopt. By the time WWE came calling in 2017, she had four years of ring time — more than most Performance Center recruits arrive with.

She also arrived with a name she had chosen herself and a character she had built from scratch. The “Rhea Ripley” name, the dark hair, the attitude — all of it predates WWE. That is rarer than it sounds. Most wrestlers get their name and look from the company. Ripley brought hers with her, and WWE kept it. The company has rarely had to do less repackaging of a new signing.

One detail from this period trips up biography pages: some list a May 24, 2014 debut for New Horizon Pro Wrestling as her professional debut. The June 22, 2013 Riot City Wrestling date is the one Wikipedia and the Australian record use, and it is the date this article uses. The 2014 date appears to be her debut for that second promotion, not her first match.

The Mae Young Classic Breakthrough

Ripley’s WWE break came through the 2017 Mae Young Classic, the company’s all-women’s tournament. She was 20, four years into her career, and unknown to the American audience. The tournament was WWE’s first serious attempt to scout women’s wrestling globally, and Ripley was its Australian entry. She did not win it. She did something more useful: she looked like she belonged on WWE television, and she looked different from everyone else in the field.

She came back for the 2018 edition and reached the semi-finals. That run, more than the first, is what locked in her future. Two Mae Young Classic appearances in two years told the company she was not a one-off tryout — she was a prospect worth building a brand around. WWE signed her, and the next step was the brand the company had just launched in Britain.

The Mae Young Classic years also show how fast WWE moved once it saw her. Signed in July 2017, she was in a UK title tournament within a year and a champion within 13 months of her first tournament match. For comparison, most NXT signings spend two to three years in developmental before touching a title. Ripley spent one.

NXT UK and a First Championship

In August 2018, Ripley became the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion, beating Toni Storm in the final of the tournament to crown the title. She was 21. The win made her the face of a brand WWE was building from scratch — a UK division with its own television show, its own roster and its own titles — and it made her the first champion in that brand’s history.

The NXT UK run lasted a little over a year, and it did two things for her. It gave her main-event experience on weekly television, defending a title as the top woman on a show. And it put her under the eye of the people who ran WWE’s developmental system. Triple H, who ran NXT and NXT UK at the time, had built both brands around the idea that women’s wrestling could headline. Ripley was the proof of concept: a 21-year-old from Adelaide holding a brand’s first women’s title and carrying its television. For the full story of the man who built that system, see Triple H’s biography on Guide Net Worth.

By late 2019, WWE moved her to the main NXT brand in Florida — the bigger stage, the bigger audience, and the title that mattered most in developmental wrestling.

NXT, WarGames and Shayna Baszler

Ripley won the NXT Women’s Championship at NXT TakeOver: WarGames in December 2019, beating Shayna Baszler in one of the most praised matches in NXT history. Baszler had held the title for more than a year and had built her reign on breaking arms and ending careers. Ripley beat her clean, in the main event, in front of a crowd that had been chanting her name all night. She was 23.

The win set up the biggest match of her career to that point. Charlotte Flair, the most decorated woman on the main roster, challenged Ripley for the NXT Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 36 in April 2020. Ripley lost — Flair won the title — but the match made history anyway: Ripley became the first NXT wrestler to defend an NXT title at WrestleMania, the company’s flagship event. Losing to Flair at WrestleMania 36 was, in career terms, a promotion. WWE does not put a 23-year-old developmental champion in a WrestleMania title match unless it plans to build around her.

She stayed in NXT through 2020 and into 2021, and the Flair loss became a thread she would pull for years. It gave her a rival at the very top of the company, a reason to chase the main roster, and a WrestleMania loss to avenge. She got the chance three years later, on a much bigger stage.

WrestleMania 37 and the Raw Title

Ripley was promoted to the main roster on Raw in 2021, and at WrestleMania 37 in April 2021 she beat Asuka for the Raw Women’s Championship. She was 24, and it was her first main-roster title — won on her first WrestleMania as a main-roster wrestler. The Asuka win also made her a two-time WWE Women’s Champion in the counting the company uses, since the Raw title was one of the two women’s world titles of the era.

The same period added tag-team gold. Ripley is a two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion: first with Nikki A.S.H. in 2021, during her early Raw run, and again in 2026 with IYO SKY, early in the year she won the WWE Women’s Championship. The 2026 tag reign is the one that tends to get missed in biographies written before 2026, and it is worth naming because it is part of the five-title set that makes her the only wrestler to hold them all.

Her first year on Raw was strong but not yet defining. The title run, the tag titles, the move to the main roster — all of it was setup. The defining chapter started in April 2022, when she joined a faction that changed her character, her nickname and her earning power in one move.

The Judgment Day and the Mami Persona

Everything changed in April 2022, when Ripley joined Edge’s new stable, The Judgment Day, alongside Damian Priest. The group was built as a dark, gothic faction — black gear, slow entrances, a cult-like edge — and Ripley fit it so completely that the faction eventually reshaped itself around her. When Edge left the group, Ripley stayed, and The Judgment Day became her vehicle.

The “Mami” nickname came out of this run. It started as a storyline word — the group’s enforcer, the one the others deferred to — and turned into a brand. Fans chanted it. WWE printed it on shirts. By 2023, “Mami” was not a nickname so much as a second name, and it did what nicknames rarely do: it sold merchandise. WWE Shop named her one of its top ten merchandise sellers for 2025, and the Mami line — shirts, hats, a limited-edition action figure — is the commercial spine of that ranking.

The Judgment Day years also gave her the best screen time of her career. Factions give wrestlers television every week without needing a title match, and Ripley used it: promos, interference spots, mixed-tag matches, and a slow-burn story with Dominik Mysterio that became one of the most talked-about angles in the company. She was no longer just a champion. She was a character the audience paid to see, win or lose — and that distinction is what separates a good wrestler from a star.

Royal Rumble 2023 and WrestleMania 39

Ripley won the 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble, entering at number one and lasting the whole match to win it — the first woman ever to win from the number one spot, and only the fourth wrestler of either sex to do it. The Royal Rumble is a 30-person elimination match, and winning from number one means surviving every other entrant. Shawn Michaels did it in 1995. Chris Benoit did it in 2004. Edge did it in 2021. Ripley, at 26, joined them — and she did it as the first woman.

The Rumble win earned her a title match at WrestleMania 39, and she chose Charlotte Flair and the SmackDown Women’s Championship. On April 1, 2023, she beat Flair to win her first main-roster world title, avenging the WrestleMania 36 loss three years earlier. It was a clean, direct piece of storytelling: the woman who had taken her title at 23 lost it to her at 26, on the biggest show of the year, in front of more than 80,000 people.

The title was renamed the Women’s World Championship in June 2023, two months after she won it, and the name change stuck. She became the face of the division for the next year — the champion every storyline ran through.

The Long Reign and the Liv Morgan Rivalry

Ripley’s first reign as Women’s World Champion lasted 380 days, tied with Bayley for the longest reign in the title’s history. She defended it against a run of challengers through 2023 and into 2024, and at WrestleMania 40 in April 2024 she beat Becky Lynch to retain it — Lynch, the biggest star of the women’s division’s previous era, beaten clean on the grandest stage. For the full story of the woman Ripley beat that night, see Becky Lynch’s biography on Guide Net Worth.

Eight days later, the reign ended — not in the ring, but in a backstage segment. Ripley suffered a legitimate shoulder injury in an attack angle with Liv Morgan in April 2024, and on April 15, 2024, she vacated the championship. She had held it for 380 days and never lost it in a match. Morgan, the woman whose attack caused the injury, went on to win the vacant title and hold it through the rest of 2024, and the rivalry became the spine of the women’s division for the next nine months.

Ripley returned from the shoulder injury in the summer of 2024, and the feud with Morgan ran through the autumn: a title match at SummerSlam 2024, a broken orbital bone suffered in a parking-lot attack angle in October 2024, and a return in time for the Netflix era. The story ended, for the title at least, on January 6, 2025, when Ripley beat Morgan on the Raw Netflix premiere to regain the Women’s World Championship. It was the first Raw of the Netflix deal, the most-watched episode of the show in years, and Ripley closed it as champion. The 380-day reign had a bookend.

WrestleMania 42, Injury and the 2026 Picture

The 2026 run started with tag gold and ended, for now, in an operating room. Ripley and IYO SKY began the year by beating The Kabuki Warriors to capture the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship. On February 28, 2026, she won the Women’s Elimination Chamber, earning the right to challenge for the WWE Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 42. The champion was Jade Cargill, who had won the title from Tiffany Stratton at Saturday Night’s Main Event on November 1, 2025.

On April 19, 2026, on Night 2 of WrestleMania 42 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Ripley beat Cargill to win the WWE Women’s Championship. Yardbarker’s report of the match, published October 7, 2026, records the finish: Cargill had Ripley in trouble after the Sandstorm, Ripley escaped an attempted Jaded, delivered the Riptide and pinned her. Ripley officially joined SmackDown as champion on April 24. She was 29, a two-time WWE Women’s Champion, and holding the title she had never won before — the one that completed the set.

The rematch came at Clash in Italy on May 31, 2026. Ripley beat Cargill again, with the Riptide, to retain the championship. It was her final confirmed match of the run: eight matches from the WrestleMania victory through June 3, 2026. During the Clash in Italy match she suffered a torn meniscus in her right knee. She tried to rehab it first, then opted for surgery in early August 2026 to repair the tear.

WWE did not strip her. Instead, the company created an interim WWE Women’s Championship, contested in a five-woman ladder match at SummerSlam on August 1–2, 2026, in Minneapolis. Chelsea Green won it, outlasting Charlotte Flair, Tiffany Stratton, Lash Legend and Cargill. Green was later recognized as the official champion after Ripley’s title was vacated, and she still holds it as of November 2026. Ripley turned 30 on October 11, 2026, while recovering — Heavy reported on October 16 that she was two months past surgery, with a typical meniscus recovery running six weeks to six months — and in October she was announced for a pre-show appearance at WrestlePalooza: Perth on December 12, 2026, alongside fellow Australian Bronson Reed. She is also listed among the early favourites for the 2027 Royal Rumble, which WWE has confirmed for State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in February 2027. A Rumble win would give her a direct route back into the title picture without a weekly shortcut.

Rhea Ripley Net Worth and Salary Explained

Rhea Ripley’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $4 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, whose page was updated around September 2026. That is the anchor figure this article uses, and it sits inside a reported range of $1 million to $8 million. The range is wide because the sources behind it are counting different things at different times, and readers deserve to see that instead of getting one number presented as settled fact.

The table below lays out the disagreement, source by source, with dates.

The pattern is clear. The low figures come from pages built on the old reported base salary of about $250,000 a year and never updated for the contract she signed in 2024. The high figures take Celebrity Net Worth’s $4 million and widen it. The cluster around $4 million — CNW itself, HeadlineFinds at $4.2 million, NewsPoint and BharatHorizon starting at $4 million — is where the freshest reporting lands, and that is why $4 million is the anchor.

Her salary is the hardest number in this article to pin down, because WWE does not disclose it. The earlier reported base was about $250,000 a year. In 2024, wrestling-industry reporting indicated she had agreed to a new five-year WWE contract carrying a “considerable raise”, expected to keep her with WWE through 2029. The exact figure was not disclosed, and this article does not guess it. Two cautions apply to numbers circulating online. First, court records made public in 2026 showed internal WWE documents from 2022 in which Ripley was among a group of performers who received annual contract increases totaling $2 million — that $2 million was the combined increase for several wrestlers, not her individual salary, and outlets that present it as her pay are misreading the document. Second, some pages claim she earns $6 million to $7 million a year, citing GiveMeSport-derived reporting. Celebrity Net Worth, which has the freshest page on her, does not support that figure, and this article treats it as unverified.

The money she does make comes from four streams: the WWE contract itself; premium live event compensation and bonuses; merchandise royalties, where she ranked among WWE Shop’s top ten sellers for 2025; and endorsements and licensing, covered in the next section. An illustrative way to see the build-up: take a base salary in the low-to-mid six figures, add event bonuses and a merchandise royalty share on a top-ten selling line, add endorsement fees, and subtract tax, agent fees and travel, and a $4 million net worth after a decade in the business — four of those years on the independent circuit, where pay is a fraction of WWE money — is a coherent result. That is illustrative math, not a reported breakdown. Nobody outside WWE and her own accounts has the real ledger.

For context against her peers: Becky Lynch’s biography on Guide Net Worth puts Lynch’s fortune higher, built over a longer main-roster career, while the division’s newer champions sit below Ripley’s $4 million anchor. She is 30, under a contract that runs to 2029, and her best-earning years are plausibly ahead of her — which is why most 2026 trackers expect the number to rise. For more profiles in this series, see our Celebrity Net Worth archive.

Endorsements, Merchandise and Video Games

Outside the ring, Ripley has become one of WWE’s most-used faces in sponsor campaigns. Celebrity Net Worth lists her reported endorsement and campaign work as including C4 Energy, Mattel, Nexus Sports Nutrition, WWE 2K25 and Topps, and notes her appearances in WWE partner campaigns for Minute Maid, Supercell, C4 and 2K. The names are the verifiable part. The fees are not public, and this article does not invent them — single-source pages that attach dollar figures to individual deals, like a claimed $150,000 a year from C4, are not used here because no second outlet confirms them.

What the reporting does confirm is the scale of the exposure. She appeared in C4 Energy promotions around SummerSlam, was incorporated into Supercell’s 2025 campaigns, and in 2026 appeared alongside Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso in Minute Maid’s WWE campaign. For the full story of the wrestler she shared that Minute Maid campaign with, see Cody Rhodes’ biography on Guide Net Worth. She and Bianca Belair appeared together on the Deluxe Edition cover of WWE 2K25, and she is a regular playable character across the WWE 2K series.

Merchandise is where the endorsement story turns into hard commercial evidence. WWE Shop named her among the company’s top ten merchandise sellers for 2025, alongside stars including Roman Reigns, CM Punk, John Cena and Cody Rhodes. That is a striking list to sit on: the top merch sellers in WWE are the company’s biggest draws, and Ripley is the only woman from the current roster in that group. The “Mami” shirts, the action figures, the replica title belts — all of it pays royalties on top of her contract, and all of it is why a wrestler with a reported base salary in the six figures can carry a $4 million net worth at 30.

Her lifestyle reporting is thin, and this article says so rather than filling the gap. One property site has reported a $3 million house in Orlando, Florida, but no mainstream outlet has confirmed the purchase, so it is noted here as a single-source report and nothing more. She keeps her off-camera life quiet, and the money story is better told through the contract, the merch ranking and the campaigns — all of which are documented — than through a house she has never shown off.

Marriage to Buddy Matthews and Life Off Camera

Ripley is married to fellow professional wrestler Buddy Matthews — real name Matthew Adams — an Australian who wrestled in WWE as Buddy Murphy and now wrestles for AEW. The two started dating in August 2022, got engaged in August 2023, and married on June 23, 2024, in a gothic-inspired ceremony where Ripley wore a black gown and Matthews wore an all-black suit. They announced the engagement publicly in 2023 and shared the wedding across social media in June 2024.

The marriage is one of wrestling’s most visible cross-promotion couples: she is a WWE champion, he wrestles for AEW, and both have talked openly about supporting each other’s careers across the divide. Matthews, like Ripley, is Australian, and the two share a background in the same independent scene that produced her. It is a partnership built on a shared trade as much as a shared life.

She has no children as of November 2026, and no public record indicates otherwise. Reports have noted that she has said she does not plan to have children for at least five to ten years because of her WWE schedule, and this article repeats that as a reported statement, not a confirmed quote. One biography page lists past boyfriends by name; this article does not, because Ripley has never publicly confirmed any earlier relationship, and unnamed aggregator lists are not a source.

Off camera, she is known for the same interests that built her look: heavy metal music, horror, tattoos and the goth aesthetic that the “Mami” character turned into a brand. She has a large tattoo collection, including the work visible across her arms and torso on television, and her ring gear — chains, spikes, studded leather — is an extension of her personal style rather than a costume the company designed. That overlap between the person and the character is a large part of why the character works. The audience can tell when a wrestler is playing a part and when she is turning the volume up on herself. Ripley is the second kind.

Rhea Ripley Title History

The championship record is the spine of the biography, so it is worth laying out in full. Every title below is documented by Wikipedia’s biography and WWE’s own title histories.

She is the seventh WWE Women’s Triple Crown Champion, the fifth WWE Women’s Grand Slam Champion, the only wrestler to hold all five of the titles above, and the first female Australian champion in WWE history. Her first Women’s World Championship reign, at 380 days, is tied with Bayley for the longest in that title’s history. At 30, with a contract running to 2029 and a return from injury ahead of her, the record has room to grow. The next chapter is a comeback, and the Royal Rumble in February 2027 is the first date that matters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on 14 November 2026 from live reporting: Wikipedia (updated 12 November 2026) for the Demiti Bennett birth name, the October 11, 1996 birth date, the Adelaide birthplace and Glenelg upbringing, the Italian descent, the June 22, 2013 Riot City Wrestling debut, the two RCW Women’s titles, the Mae Young Classic runs, the August 2018 inaugural NXT UK Women’s Championship, the WarGames 2019 win over Shayna Baszler, the WrestleMania 36 title defense, the WrestleMania 37 win over Asuka, the April 2022 Judgment Day move, the 2023 Royal Rumble win from number one, the WrestleMania 39 win over Charlotte Flair, the 380-day reign tied with Bayley, the Triple Crown and Grand Slam records, and the June 23, 2024 marriage to Buddy Matthews; SuplexDigest (published April 11, 2026) for the self-chosen ring name, the Japan work with Pro Wrestling Zero1, the NXT UK and WarGames detail, and the Judgment Day and 2023–25 title history; Yardbarker for the early-life sports, The Miz inspiration, the 5 feet 7 inch height, the 137 lb weight, and the October 7, 2026 WrestleMania 42 match report; Celebrity Net Worth (updated around September 2026) for the $4 million net worth, the five-year 2024 contract with a “considerable raise” through 2029, the 2022 internal-documents note, the C4, Mattel, Supercell, Minute Maid and 2K campaigns, the WWE 2K25 Deluxe Edition cover with Bianca Belair, and the top-ten WWE Shop merchandise ranking for 2025; NewsPoint (July–August 2026) and BharatHorizon for the $4 million to $8 million range and the $500,000 to $700,000 annual salary band; HeadlineFinds (May 23, 2026) for the $4.2 million calculation; FulcharmNames (updated June 29, 2026) for the $5 million to $7 million figure; Surprise Sports (updated October 11, 2026) for the $1.5 million figure and the $250,000 earlier base salary; Glimmer Sports for the $1 million to $3 million range and the January 6, 2025 Liv Morgan win; The Playoffs (April 2025) for the $1 million figure and the PWI Elite contract reporting; Heavy (October 16–17, 2026) for the October 11, 2026 30th birthday, the early-August meniscus surgery and the two-months-post-surgery status; WrestleTalk (October 16, 2026) for the 2027 Royal Rumble date and venue and the interim-title background; eWrestling and 411Mania (October 15–16, 2026) for the WrestlePalooza: Perth pre-show on December 12, 2026; LNC Wrestling for the Elimination Chamber win of February 28, 2026 and the eight-match run from WrestleMania 42 to June 3, 2026; and Metro Report for the “no children” reporting. Where sources disagreed — the $1 million to $8 million net-worth spread, the 5 feet 7 inch versus 5 feet 9 inch height, the stale 28- and 29-year-old age listings — the article names the disagreement instead of picking a number silently. Corrections are welcome via the About page.