Rhonda Sing went to the same school as future wrestling stars Bret and Owen Hart and repeatedly tried to approach their family to get trained. But scheduling conflicts and Stampede not regularly promoting women’s wrestling made her goal of becoming a wrestler seem far-fetched.
Upon seeing the corpulent 5’8" Rhonda Sing, they displayed interest. Her look and body type were mostly non-existent in Japanese women’s wrestling, so it promised to be something different for the fans.
Even with her limited experience and scant ring repertoire, she impacted the Japanese fans by winning in her January 1979 debut alongside Mami Kumano against the extremely popular Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda, better known as the Beauty Pair.
In the beautiful and exotic island of Puerto Rico, she returned to being Monster Ripper and dominated in Carlos Colon’s WWC by becoming a five-time women’s champion.
According to Bruce Prichard, the idea of bringing in Monster Ripper came straight from then WWF Women’s World Champion Alundra Blayze, who was also known to fans as Madusa.
At the time, the WWF brass decided that the fearsome heel who’d been a worldwide draw for fifteen years needed to morph into a sideshow comedy act called Bertha Faye.
When Bertha Faye made her appearance again on Monday Night Raw, she became fodder for Jerry “The King” Lawler and his one-liners. "It looks like Harvey Wippleman just became the Tom Arnold [in reference to his then-wife Roseanne] of the WWF! Her Levi’s aren’t 501s; they’re 747s!"