{"id":797369,"date":"2026-07-13T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:48:34","slug":"wwe-news-aew-news-pro-wrestling-backstage-news-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797369\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/maxresdefault-10.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"Rhea Ripley\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gable Steveson comments on who he thinks would do better: Rhea Ripley in MMA or Conor McGregor in a WWE ring.<\/p>\n<p>Steveson has had a career that has spanned multiple forms of combat sports, beginning in the world of amateur wrestling, before transferring over to professional wrestling where he would have a brief run with WWE where he would feature at WrestleMania 38, before having a bout with Baron Corbin at NXT followed by his release from the company. Now, Steveson is a member of the UFC roster and scored his first victory in the company at UFC 329. Additionally, Steveson has also found himself fighting in a boxing ring.<\/p>\n<p>While<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q-ybFFC52eo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> speaking in an interview with Nina Drama<\/a> ahead of UFC 329, Gable Steveson would be asked who would do better: Rhea Ripley in MMA or Conor McGregor in WWE. Steveson would keep his answer short and sweet, pointing to the current WWE Women\u2019s Champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRhea Ripley in MMA. She\u2019s strong. Yeah, she put together. She ready to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For more on Steveson\u2019s debut UFC fight, you can read more on the bout<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/mma\/gable-steveson-wins-ufc-debut-remains-undefeated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you use any of the\u00a0quotes above, please credit the original source with a h\/t and link back to Fightful for the transcription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson comments on who he thinks would do better: Rhea Ripley in MMA or Conor McGregor in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-797369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}