During a recent edition of Busted Open Radio, Mark Henry suggested a Mega Powers type of alliance between Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair, thrusting Ripley into the center of a storyline idea that would pair two of WWE’s top women as uneasy partners.
Henry framed the idea as a slow-build trust story, saying exactly, "I’m curious to see if they’re working towards doing a Mega Powers thing with them, but they’re gonna have to respect each other, and right now they don’t." He added a plot point that would drive the drama: "And when you build a story, and you start with them working towards learning trust, which is what’s happening at some point, one of them is going to have to relinquish power to save the other." Those beats — mistrust, a sacrificial turn and a surprise tag — were the engine of Henry’s pitch: "And they’re gonna be shocked like, ‘You just tagged me?'"
What gives the idea immediate relevance is date and destination: later this weekend Rhea Ripley will defend her WWE Women’s Championship against former champion Jade Cargill at WWE Clash in Italy on Sunday, May 31. The event will air live on the App in the U.S. and on Netflix internationally, with the first hour also shown on — meaning any hairline shift toward a Ripley/Flair alliance would be visible to a large, live audience right away.
The suggestion Henry made on air was clearly speculative; he pitched it as a storytelling option rather than announcing a confirmed plan. The framing matters because the current status between Ripley and Flair is not one of mutual respect — "they’re gonna have to respect each other, and right now they don’t," Henry said — which is precisely the dramatic obstacle he says a Mega Powers-style arc would be built to overcome. Henry also teed up the likely collateral drama, naming other women he sees as the immediate threat around the title picture and the storyline: Jade Cargill, Michin and B-Fab. He even imagined the wider nostalgic payoff, saying, "And guess who that’s gonna hurt? Alexa Bliss, [but] We would get to see Savage and Hogan. Yeah, that’s good. How many championships would they win?"
The tension in Henry’s pitch is obvious: the Mega Powers model depends on two over-the-top characters finding common cause, yet Henry himself says Ripley and Flair currently lack respect for each other. That gap — big personalities who must learn to trust — is where a payoff could live, but it also creates logistical friction. Ripley has a title defense against a credible, headline-grabbing challenger in Jade Cargill this weekend; a sudden mutual-aid swerve would have to be staged around that match and would risk undercutting the current singles storyline if handled clumsily.
In the end, Henry offered the idea as a possibility to watch, not a press release: he described how the beats would look, the emotional moments fans might see and even the surprising tags that would sell the turn. With Rhea Ripley scheduled to defend on May 31 at WWE Clash in Italy, the most immediate answer is practical — this is a speculative creative suggestion, not a confirmed angle — but one viewers should notice. If WWE moves toward a Mega Powers-style alliance, it will require Ripley and Flair to erase the lack of respect Henry says exists and to stage a convincing sacrifice where one "relinquish[es] power to save the other." Absent that, Henry’s pitch remains a smart, watchable theory for a weekend already set to draw eyes on Ripley’s title defense.
