Mark Henry Thinks It’s Time for Raquel Rodriguez To Get Out of the ‘Sidekick Conversations’ Following Her WWE Night of Champions Performance

– During a recent edition of Busted Open Radio, WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry had high praise for Raquel Rodriguez for her Street Fight with Rhea Ripley at last Saturday’s WWE Night of Champions Riyadh 2025. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Mark Henry on Raquel Rodriguez’s incredible performance at Night of Champions: “You can not ever go back after that performance. You have to lean into this performance as the standard and then that’ll make you one of the main event wrestlers. She needs to get out of the sidekick conversation and get into the ‘you know what? I love you to death, but this is about me, I gotta do me.’ … ‘Pee or get off the pot!’ is what my granny used to say.”

On how this needs to be Rodriguez’s new standard: “Everybody else that’s on the rise, they’re gonna have to step it up! …. I’m just stuck on the fact that Raquel did a hell of a job and that needs to be her standard, not her ‘only at the pay-per-view where the lights shine the brightest.'”

Ripley beat Rodriguez in the match following an Avalanche Riptide off of a table on the top rope. Rodriguez is scheduled for action once again at WWE Evolution 2025 next weekend. Along with The Judgment Day’s Roxanne Perez, the duo will defend the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles in a Fatal four-way tag team match. Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair are already confirmed for the matchup. Two other teams will be determined later.

WWE Evolution 2025 is scheduled for Sunday, July 13 at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. It will air live on Peacock in the U.S. and on Netflix internationally.