Sol Ruca says the Money in the Bank ladder match was the first time she felt real pressure to outdo herself on the WWE main roster.
Speaking on The Finish with Kor & Tor, Ruca said the weight came from people knowing what she did in NXT and what she has done since arriving on Raw. “There were a lot of expectations,” she said, and she found herself “trying to think of how I can one-up myself from the past things I’ve done.”
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Ladders are familiar ground for her. Ruca won the NXT Women’s North American Championship in a ladder match at Stand & Deliver, and she told the show the fans standing up when she hit her finish and started climbing was a highlight of that night.
She also set the bar herself. After becoming the first woman to qualify for the match by beating Lyra Valkyria and Maxxine Dupri on Raw, Ruca said in a promo posted by WWE, “I will be hitting the Sol Snatcher off the ladder.” In New Orleans, she did exactly that, hitting the Sol Snatcher on Roxanne Perez from a ladder.
Asked about the viral spot from the match, Ruca described a moment of doubt before the leap.
When I got on the post, I was like, ‘Oh my god, she’s so far away.’ But I was like, ‘Well, I’m already up here. I have to do this.’ And I just sent it and tried to make the most of the opportunity.
She called the spot “definitely one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever done.”
The match was full of those moments. Ruca hit a top-rope frog splash on Lash Legend, who was lying on a ladder bridged between the apron and the announce table. Legend answered by powerbombing Ruca onto a ladder, and Tiffany Stratton went on to take the briefcase, as covered in our Money in the Bank results report.
Ruca also talked about what she has learned from Becky Lynch in the same interview, which we covered in Sol Ruca’s comments on Lynch questioning creative.
