Rhea Ripley had four words for the suggestion that WWE should fly her to Colombia for stem cell treatment: “First I’ve heard of this.”
Ripley posted the reply Monday, quoting a Ringside News item about Kevin Nash’s latest comments. She added a thinking-face emoji and left it there.
Nash brought her up on the newest episode of his Kliq This podcast during a conversation about how much blame WWE creative deserves when a wrestler stalls out. His argument was that injuries scramble the math, and Ripley came to mind.
There’s a lot of intangibles, you know, if you’re coming off an injury. It’s just, there’s a lot of intangibles. Like right now, Rhea, I love Rhea to death, but man, she’s hurt a lot.
Then came the recommendation. Nash wants WWE to send Ripley to BioXcellerator in Medellín, the clinic he credits with keeping him off an operating table.
I would love for Rhea to go down to BioXcellerator down in Colombia, and I think that WWE should pay for it. And I think that they should, wherever she’s got problems, if it’s discs in her back or whatever.
Nash Is Speaking From Experience
This isn’t secondhand for him. Nash went through the treatment himself after back trouble shut down his left leg, at a point when several doctors, including a back surgeon at Emory, were telling him to cut.
I sent my MRI down to the spinal specialist at BioXcellerator, and I had some pretty nasty herniations. And he said, ‘I can’t 100% say that we can heal you, but man, it’s a better chance. I would do this before I bust you open.'
He went, had it done, and now points to his leg press as the receipt: 12 45-pound plates, 17 slow reps, nothing hoisted.
Ripley’s problem is a knee, not a back. She confirmed last week that she’d had surgery on a torn meniscus after two months of trying to rehab it, and the timetable being floated puts her out close to six months. She has since made her first public appearance since the operation.
Nash isn’t on WWE’s medical staff, and his pitch was less a diagnosis than a spending argument: Ripley is worth the invoice.
Whether anyone in Stamford has actually raised it with her is a separate question. Her reply suggests not.
