WWE women’s champion Naomi has been going toe-to-toe with Cardi B on social media before the biggest party of the summer.
Naomi, 37, and the “Outside” rapper, 32, have been trading barbs in anticipation of Cardi’s guest hosting gig at SummerSlam, which takes place Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
“She better hope she don’t run into me at MetLife,” Naomi exclusively told Us Weekly. “She’s been talking real crazy and reckless and I don’t like that.”
The beef kicked into high gear when Naomi asked her followers to “say something nice” about her via X on July 22, and Cardi, 32, responded with a dig about the wrestler’s family.
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“You have amazing in laws … you should thank them,” Cardi wrote, a reference to Naomi’s husband Jimmy Uso’s parents, WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi and his wife, Talisua Fuavai-Fatu.
Naomi responded, “This means war 
.”
In response to Cardi showing off her natural hair in a separate post, Naomi threatened to “shave all of that pretty hair off and make me a wig.”
Naomi jokingly told Us that she is “working on a way right now to keep her out of the building” at SummerSlam.
Beef aside, Naomi acknowledged that having somebody like Cardi B — who has long professed her love of professional wrestling — involved in WWE is a big deal.
“I love the mainstream crossovers,” Naomi said. “I love when we can bring in different, amazing artists and performers into our world and share our fan bases. We all just come together in this experience of wrestling, which I think is what makes wrestling so cool. Wrestling touches everyone around the world.”
In addition to Cardi B acting as the host of SummerSlam, country music superstar Jelly Roll will be getting in the ring alongside Randy Orton as they team up to face Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre on Saturday, August 2.
Naomi will defend her WWE women’s world championship on Sunday, in a triple threat match against Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky.
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After winning the women’s Money In the Bank ladder match in June, Naomi cashed in her championship contract at WWE Evolution earlier this month to win the title.
“I’m still wrapping my head around it,” Naomi said of the victory. “Still coming down from the excitement of it, the shock of it, the overwhelming, much appreciated reaction and response from the fans. The good and the bad. You can’t have the good without the bad. But what I love and appreciate is that, one way or another, the fans feel something. They’re connected to this phase that I’m in, whether they like it or not.”
Naomi added, “They’re making that very vocal, which means I’m doing something right.”
WWE’s two-night SummerSlam airs live on Peacock Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, at 7 p.m. ET.
