Raquel Rodriguez Gives Jamie Noble Credit For The Finish To Her Match at WWE Night of Champions

In an interview with Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown, Raquel Rodriguez spoke about her match with Rhea Ripley at WWE Night of Champions and gave credit to Jamie Noble for the finish. The finish featured the two standing on top of a table placed on the top rope, with Ripley hitting a Riptide from there to the ring for the win. Here are highlights:

On her match with Ripley: “I’m always proud of the work I get to do with Rhea, just from the long relationship we’ve had as wrestlers, coworkers, friends, and tag team partners turned enemies. Every single time that we get an opportunity to work together, I think we both know that there’s pressure to level up from the matches that we’ve had previously. It was definitely hard to think of stuff, especially being in a foreign country where women, we’re not allowed to do too much. We were very contained, but for what we had on that day and what we were able to come up with, I could not be prouder of a more epic street fight with her.”

On the finish of the match: “That started off as a plank of wood idea, obviously we watch reels and fights from the past to like help spark creativity and get ideas. And I was watching a Street Fight between Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon… and they did a spot where they had a plank of wood on the top rope and I believe Kurt hit a German off of it. As I was standing [on the wood], I was like, nah, no way. I’m not hitting anything off of this,” Raquel said with a laugh. “Just me being six foot and already the size of the plank of the wood itself… It just was not happening. Thanks to Jamie Noble, that idea kind of curved into what it was. And it was definitely scary.”