WWE ladies’s champion Naomi has been going toe-to-toe with Cardi B on social media earlier than the largest get together of the summer season.
Naomi, 37, and the “Exterior” rapper, 32, have been buying and selling barbs in anticipation of Cardi’s visitor internet hosting gig at SummerSlam, which takes place Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
“She higher hope she don’t run into me at MetLife,” Naomi solely informed Us Weekly. “She’s been speaking actual loopy and reckless and I don’t like that.”
The meat kicked into excessive gear when Naomi requested her followers to “say one thing good” about her through X on July 22, and Cardi, 32, responded with a dig in regards to the wrestler’s household.
“You could have superb in legal guidelines … it is best to thank them,” Cardi wrote, a reference to Naomi’s husband Jimmy Uso’s dad and mom, WWE Corridor of Famer Rikishi and his spouse, Talisua Fuavai-Fatu.
Naomi responded, “This implies warfare ⚠️🤬.”
In response to Cardi exhibiting off her pure hair in a separate put up, Naomi threatened to “shave all of that fairly hair off and make me a wig.”
Naomi jokingly informed Us that she is “engaged on a manner proper now to maintain her out of the constructing” at SummerSlam.
Beef apart, Naomi acknowledged that having someone like Cardi B — who has lengthy professed her love {of professional} wrestling — concerned in WWE is a giant deal.
“I like the mainstream crossovers,” Naomi stated. “I like after we can convey in numerous, superb artists and performers into our world and share our fan bases. All of us simply come collectively on this expertise of wrestling, which I feel is what makes wrestling so cool. Wrestling touches everybody all over the world.”
Along with Cardi B appearing because the host of SummerSlam, nation music celebrity Jelly Roll might be getting within the ring alongside Randy Orton as they group as much as face Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre on Saturday, August 2.
Naomi will defend her WWE ladies’s world championship on Sunday, in a triple menace match towards Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky.
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After successful the ladies’s Cash Within the Financial institution ladder match in June, Naomi cashed in her championship contract at WWE Evolution earlier this month to win the title.
“I’m nonetheless wrapping my head round it,” Naomi stated of the victory. “Nonetheless coming down from the thrill of it, the shock of it, the overwhelming, a lot appreciated response and response from the followers. The nice and the unhealthy. You possibly can’t have the nice with out the unhealthy. However what I like and respect is that, a technique or one other, the followers really feel one thing. They’re related to this part that I’m in, whether or not they prefer it or not.”
Naomi added, “They’re making that very vocal, which implies I’m doing one thing proper.”
WWE’s two-night SummerSlam airs stay on Peacock Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, at 7 p.m. ET.
