Turns out that the WWE Universe may have to wait even longer for the rumored faction feud between WWE’s Four Horsewomen and Ronda Rousey’s MMA Horsewomen.
Despite recent reports speculating that WWE is aiming to close WrestleMania 35 with a feel-good moment for the WWE Four Horsewomen, this may no longer be the case.
Writing in a post on the Wrestling Observer Forum, Dave Meltzer divulged that this is apparently no longer the current plan for the end of ‘Mania.
“This is not happening,” he said, “well at least as not happening can be with Vince changing his mind every hour. It makes no sense with the direction they are going.”
Close The Show
With Charlotte Flair now holding the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship, the rumor speculated that Becky Lynch would defeat her rival, Ronda Rousey, for the RAW Women’s Championship.
Lynch and Flair, now each holding gold, would then be joined by their former Horsewomen stablemates and WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, Bayley and Sasha Banks. That is, of course, if they successfully defend them in their matchup.
In case you didn’t know, the women were colloquially known as the Four Horsewomen during their time in NXT. Since that time, Ronda Rousey and a number of her MMA friends have joined WWE’s roster. Prior to that, however, they had also adopted the Four Horsewomen name.
Both took the name in honor of legendary wrestling stable, the Four Horsemen.
What do you think? Are we on the way to a feel-good moment? With Ronda’s Horsewomen stablemates still in NXT, Is a clash between the two still a long way off?
Former Smackdown women’s champion Asuka has picked up a measure of revenge on Charlotte Flair. Asuka attacked Flair last night at a WWE house show in Pikesville, Maryland.
Flair had just defeated Becky Lynch in a match for the Smackdown women’s championship when Asuka hit the ring area. Flair had used the ropes for leverage and looked to be headed to the back when Asuka attacked and threw her back in the ring to take a stunner from the Man.
Charlotte Flair has defeated Becky Lynch to retain the Smackdown Women’s Championship. Charlotte held the ropes. Some post-match shenanigans, Asuka attacks Charlotte and tosses her back in the ring and Becky nails a STUNNER! #WWEPikeville
Flair and Asuka have met 3x in single’s action on WWE programming (i.e not including house shows). The first match between the two was at WrestleMania 34 when Flair ended Asuka’s unbeaten streak. Asuka would then defeat Flair on a subsequent episode of Smackdown via disqualification.
The 3rd time they met in single’s action was last Tuesday on Smackdown when Flair defeated Asuka to regain the Smackdown women’s championship.
#WWEPikesville Results
WWE Cruiserweight Championship: Buddy Murphy (c) defeated Tony Nese
Smackdown Tag Team Championships: The Usos (c) defeated the Bar vs Rusev & Shinsuke Nakamura (Triple Threat)
United States Championship: Samoa Joe (c) defeated AJ Styles via DQ
Smackdown Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair (c) defeated Becky Lynch
Intercontinental Championship: Bobby Lashley (c) vs Finn Balor – Double Count-Out
Ronda Rousey has become known for frequently bending, if not flat out breaking, the fourth wall on her personal YouTube show, Ronda On The Road.
This weeks episode of the show follows her journey to this week’s Monday Night RAW in Boston, Massachusetts. During the video, Ronda would speak candidly on her match at WrestleMania. She would admit she thinks Becky Lynch vs Charlotte Flair wouldn’t be enough to main event the show. She went on toe say they “need” her in the match to elevate their feud. Their triple threat will see womenclosing the show for the first time in WWE history.
“It’s really cool to see people so p****d off, that thought I would fail miserably,” Rousey said. “And see that within one year, I’m in the main event of WrestleMania. And, you know what? I could promise you that Charlotte vs. Becky 9000 would not have made the main event of WrestleMania. They need me and I made it happen.”
Under Pressure
The pressure of main eventing WrestleMania on April 7th isn’t lost on the champion. She shares that “Going into this WrestleMania, I think it’s just… we just need to make sure the event is a huge success.”
She continues, “It needs to do extremely well views, I mean, it needs to do extremely well on pay-per-view buys. I want it to be the best ever because we need the women headlining WrestleMania to not be an isolated event. We need it to be, like, proof that this works and if we don’t do that, everything that we’ve done is for nothing, and we’re going to take so many years and steps back. So, there’s just so much depending on the success of this event. It really reminds me of me and [Liz] Carmouche for UFC. Everything depended on that event [UFC 157] being a success. The whole future of women in that sport, and I think the future of the women in this industry depends on the success of WrestleMania 35.”
Ronda Rousey defends her RAW Women’s Championship against SmackDown Women’s Champion, Charlotte Flair, and “The Man” Becky Lynch in a triple-threat at WrestleMania 35. The history-making matchup goes down on April 7th from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Earlier this week, Charlotte, Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch appeared on ESPN SportsCenter to promote WrestleMania 35. You can see the full video of that segment here.
As each woman answered questions from the host, a graphic appeared with their name and a fact about them. For example, Ronda Rousey’s captions read, “1st female to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame” and later, “RAW Women’s Champion (WrestleMania match for her belt).”
When Becky Lynch was on screen, the on-screen graphic said, “12th person to compete in WrestleMania main event after not being on main card.” and “Won 2019 Women’s Royal Rumble.” That random Becky factoid aside, each of these facts are related to personal accomplishments of the performers.
When Charlotte Flair appeared on screen, her caption read, “Daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair.” That statement is true, but it contrasts with the facts displayed about her opponents.
Charlotte is the most decorated competitor competing in the WrestleMania main event with countless achievements that could have been used in lieu of “Ric Flair’s daughter.”
The 8-time WWE Women’s Champion let ESPN know the chyron botch didn’t go unnoticed. She reminded ESPN that they have covered her professional accolades in-depth on multiple occasions.
She signed the message, “Daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair.”
The WWE Universe is still reeling at the surprise title change that went down this past Tuesday on SmackDown Live. For those that missed it, Charlotte Flair would challenge and defeat Asuka for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship.
This decision saw a previously slated Fatal 4 Way between Mandy Rose, Naomi, Carmella, and Sonya Deville cancelled. The winner of that match would have gone on to face Asuka at WrestleMania 35. Unsurprisingly, Flair stepping in to claim the championship wasn’t well received by the women who lost their opportunity for it.
Since all of this went down, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com has discussed WWE’s reasoning behind the decision. He said that the “decision was made at the last minute.”
Meltzer has now discussed why WWE decided to pull the trigger on this decision. He claims that the promotion intends to close WrestleMania with the Four Horsewomen all holding gold.
“This is not about Asuka, it’s about Charlotte. The Women’s Champion could have been Asuka, it could have been Naomi, it could have been Carmella—it doesn’t matter who the SmackDown Champion would have been. They want the Horsewomen closing out the show as champions at WrestleMania, so whoever was the SmackDown champion was losing that title to Charlotte.”
If this does occur, and a WWE Four Horsewomen reunion is on the horizon, could this potentially lead into the long-awaited feud between them and Ronda Rousey’s MMA Four Horsewomen faction?
WWE surprised everyone by putting the SmackDown Women’s Championship on Charlotte Flair just days before her WrestleMania match for the Raw Women’s Championship.
This move started the rumors that the company is looking to unify both the Women’s titles and many have been wondering if the Officials had planned this title change all along.
Though if we believe Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, then this isn’t the case and the decision to put the belt on Flair was a last minute call.
According to Meltzer, this wasn’t the plan earlier on
Tuesday and the call which affects the WrestleMania match card was made on the
same day as the show
“This decision was made at the last minute. It was literally
made this afternoon or this morning. I heard about it a couple of hours before
the show. “
Dave went on to reveal that he only heard that some changes were being made that would affect the match card for the PPV and as we now know, this title change means that the SmackDown Women’s Championship match is off the card.
There is still no word on why WWE officials decided on this sudden change but we noted before how the other Women on the roster are not very happy with it.
The reign of WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion is over for Asuka.
During Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live in Uncasville, CT at the Mohegan Sun Arena on the USA Network, Charlotte Flair challenged and beat Asuka to become the new champion.
WWE gave both women plenty of time to put together a compelling story, and they delivered. This was hyped as a WrestleMania 34 rematch as Flair beat Asuka at this show last year to snap Asuka’s undefeated streak.
WWE originally announced that Fatal 4-Way Match would take place featuring Naomi Carmella, Sonya Deville, and Mandy Rose to determine who would challenge Asuka for the gold. Obviously, those plans are scrapped for the time being as Flair already has a match booked at WrestleMania.
Flair will take on Becky Lynch and WWE RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey in a triple threat match that will serve as the main event of WrestleMania 35.
The former NXT Women’s Champion won the title when she beat Lynch and Flair in the first ever Women’s TLC Match in December at the TLC pay-per-view from San Jose, California.
Bully Ray elaborated on his belief that despite what fans think, Charlotte Flair deserves to be part of the WrestleMania 35 main event.
The company has already confirmed that WWE RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch vs. Flair will headline the show.
Ray talked about the news on Monday’s episode of Busted Open Radio and gave his take about this historical match as it marks the first time ever that women will headline a WrestleMania.
In the eyes of Ray, he thinks Flair deserves to be in this match even though there are some fans who think WWE should’ve just booked Lynch vs. Rousey. The former multiple tag team champion says that Flair was placed in the match because she deserves it.
“If any one woman deserves to be in the main event of WrestleMania, then it’s Charlotte Flair, and it’s her by light years. Charlotte deserves to be there more than anyone else.” He would continue by stating that Lynch has also earned her right to be in the match, but Flair has proved herself for 5-7 years now.
Ray would recall the original plans for this show to be Rousey vs. Flair, but things changed in the last several months due to the momentum that Lynch has gained with the fans as being a big star.
“Ronda was brought in for this moment, Charlotte deserves to be there, and Becky earned her way in by getting over.”
RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch appeared on ESPN SportsCenter Tuesday morning to promote WrestleMania 35.
The host first asked Ronda Rousey about the big sports news of the day: Conor McGregor retiring from the UFC. Rousey seemed a bit surprised by the question, but said McGregor’s tweet was a creative and cryptic way to drop a big announcement like that. She said, “We’ll see how permanent it is” but added that McGregor has more than earned some time away from fighting.
The discussion then shifted to pro wrestling and WrestleMania. Becky Lynch was asked about the significance of a women’s match main eventing WWE’s biggest event of the year for the first time. Lynch said she’s been working towards this “obsessively” since she was 15 years old. She left home and traveled the world learning her craft. At one point, she quit wrestling, but was drawn back because she felt there was more for her to accomplish.
When she first signed with WWE, Becky Lynch told one of her friends that she was going to main event WrestleMania. The friend told her it’s good to dream, but be realistic. “And here we are.”
Charlotte said main eventing WrestleMania is the pinnacle of the women’s evolution. This dream was ‘impossible’ just two years ago, but their progress and their success are undeniable.
Ronda Rousey said she wasn’t surprised when she learned the women would main event WrestleMania. In fact, she was expecting that. But it still made her happy. This was her ultimate goal when joining WWE. She said “The WWE product copies everything else that’s happening” and feels pro wrestling parallels what we are seeing around the world with female empowerment.
Watch: Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch on ESPN SportsCenter
WWE confirmed the big news on Monday morning when they announced that women will main event WrestleMania 35, which is the first time ever that women will headline a WrestleMania event.
WWE RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair will be the featured match. Several WWE stars took to social media to give their reaction to the announcement made by the company including Rousey, Lynch, and Flair.
Lynch earned this title opportunity by scoring a win over Flair at the WWE Fastlane pay-per-view event. You can check out the reactions here:
I came. I saw. I changed the game. Three women are going to headline #Wrestlemania this year. • I won’t hold my breath expecting any thank yous, but you’re all welcome anyway. ? #MRSwrestlemania •https://t.co/k4IrxSiFbX
It’s been my…it’s been OUR goal to main event #WrestleMania. It was never just talk, it was the hard work of every woman past, present, and future to get us here. We won’t let you down. 13 days. #HERstory#Evolution ??
In the press release that was sent out to the media about the announcement, it was touted that “At WrestleMania 32 in 2016, WWE re-branded the Divas Division the Women’s Division and unveiled a new Women’s Championship title. Since that time, the women’s evolution has placed a greater spotlight on WWE’s female performers, including more prominent storylines and deeper character development that showcases their athleticism, charisma and star power. Last October, WWE held its first-ever all-women’s pay-per-view event, Evolution, in front of a sold-crowd and millions more watching on WWE Network.”
WWE presents the WrestleMania 35 pay-per-view event on Sunday, April 7, 2019 in East Rutherford, NJ at MetLife Stadium that will air on the WWE Network.
Becky Lynch Taunts Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey
2019 WWE Women’s Royal Rumble winner Becky Lynch continues to taunt Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey ahead of WrestleMania. Lynch and Flair take on Rousey for the RAW Women’s Championship in what’s believed to be the main event of WrestleMania 35.
Recently, Flair posted a photo of herself on Twitter. Lynch responded by taking a shot at “The Queen”:
Rousey also addressed her situation on this week’s episode of Monday Night RAW. She and her husband, UFC heavyweight Travis Browne, took on several of WWE’s security team members. Rousey said she doesn’t care how much she’s fined by the company for her actions.
Lynch responded by offering to pay Rousey’s fine with her new “shampoo money”:
WWE Hall Of Famer Mark Henry has just launched his own website, which you can find at TheMarkHenry.com. The site offers a brief synopsis of “The World’s Strongest Man’s” athletic career, and also includes tour dates in which you can meet Henry and watch Monday Night RAW with him.
Here’s a description of of the events from Henry’s website:
“The World’s Strongest Man, Mark Henry is going on tour. On select Monday nights, meet Mark Henry in person at hospitality locations across the country. Come say hello, hang out, eat, drink and join Mark to watch and discuss the hottest action in professional wrestling all on multiple big screen televisions. It’s 3+ hours of non-stop wrestling action, talk and fun.”
The women’s revolution in WWE has been taking huge steps and breaking down barriers that were unimaginable a few years ago.
From main eventing weekly shows to main eventing PPVs, to having their own Royal Rumble, to having their dedicated PPV event, women’s wrestling in WWE has come a long way.
However, one thing that’s still remaining for the women’s locker room to achieve is to main event the Grandest Stage Of Them All, WrestleMania.
Female WWE stars have been very vocal about the possibility to be on the highlighting match of WrestleMania 35, and WWE Legend Mick Foley seems to think the same too.
Foley says that if the Raw Women’s Championship match between Charlotte Flair, champion Ronda Rousey, and Becky Lynch doesn’t headline WrestleMania this year then fans are not going to take it too well.
“I believe the women are going to main-event WrestleMania this year and if they don’t, I think there’ll be a mass exodus of people from around the world,” he told Sky Sports.
Foley also believes that Lynch has earned her place to be in the spotlight.
“I believe their time has come. Becky Lynch has succeeded in becoming the biggest name in our business and I think that’s great.”
“She’s a good friend, she’s a wonderful person and it couldn’t happen to a nicer lass.”
Foley thinks that there is a lot of potential in the match with what Rousey is doing and how Lynch took steps to change her career and likens her to ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin.
“I see it being an exciting match; Ronda is going out on a limb to create this really dislikeable persona and I think it works. I go back to my messages about eight or nine months ago and when she came to me for some advice I told her to be patient and to be ready. Then when she got the opportunity, she ran with it like nobody I’ve ever seen, like ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin.”
Becky Lynch is in store for a big match at the Fastlane pay-per-view event from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. If she can get her hand raised then she’s off to be featured in the history books most likely.
Lynch is slated to share the squared circle with fellow WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair at this event in a singles match with big stipulations on the line. If Lynch wins, she’ll be added to the RAW Women’s Championship Match alongside champion Ronda Rousey and Flair at WrestleMania 35 next month. However, if she loses then she’s done in the WWE.
Lynch took to her official Twitter account where she sent a message to Flair. She wrote the following:
“Charlotte, you have, once again, been handed an opportunity that you did not earn, while I have to qualify for a match I have already qualified for. I will be bringing everything I have and all that I am tomorrow at Fastlane to save WrestleMania or end my career trying.”
Speaking of Flair, WWE’s YouTube channel released this video of Flair talking about this contest with Cathy Kelley while at yesterday’s SXSW (South by Southwest) alongside Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. You can watch it here:
Former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair got fans talking after making some interesting comments while conducting a recent interview with Austin Chronicle.
This is where she made it known that in her mind, he’s arguably the most hated character currently in WWE.
“I want to say its hit me, but it hasn’t yet,” she said. “Just the fact that the women are the hottest topic right now, and I’m arguably the most hated superstar at the moment — is exciting. I sometimes sit there thinking, man, how hectic it was getting used to the schedule and being on RAW and SmackDown, and just thinking, ‘Wow, I made it. I’m on the main roster’, and now to think where I am, it’s been an incredible journey.”
Flair has a big match in store that could be tossed into the record books as part of history. But first, she must share the squared circle alongside fellow champion Becky Lynch when they meet at the Fastlane pay-per-view event from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on the WWE Network.
If Lynch wins then she’ll join Flair and WWE RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey in a triple threat contest at WrestleMania 35 in April. If Lynch loses then she’s done and Flair will share the spotlight with Rousey. It’s believed that this will serve as the main event of the show.
Ronda Rousey recently set the pro wrestling world abuzz with her damning words towards the WWE Universe. Uploading a video to her YouTube channel, the “Rowdy” one would live up to her name, ripping into fans, the WWE, and other members of the WWE roster. She would commit what many fans and those in the industry consider a cardinal sin by referring to pro wrestling as fake.
“Wrestling is scripted,” she stated, emphatically. “It’s made up, it’s not real. None of those b****** can f****** touch me. The end.”
Her words have clearly affected a number of WWE Superstars, as members of the roster took to their social media accounts in order to address Ronda’s comments.
“You Were Untouchable. Now? Not So Much”
Charlotte Flair, Ronda Rousey’s scheduled opponent at WrestleMania 35, chimed in with her rebuttal via Twitter, writing:
“Can someone please remind Captain Badass here that her last two fights before coming to WWE ended with her unconscious and sobbing in the cage?
Four years ago, you were untouchable. Now? Not so much.
You’re a class act, @RondaRousey”
Can someone please remind Captain Badass here that her last two fights before coming to WWE ended with her unconscious and sobbing in the cage?
Four years ago, you were untouchable. Now? Not so much.
The two are currently slated to clash come April 7th. Before that, however, Charlotte Flair will be competing against Becky Lynch at Fastlane. Stephanie McMahon recently added the stipulation that if Lynch emerges victorious tomorrow night, she will be added to the championship match at ‘Mania, making it a triple threat affair.
She wasn’t the only one to take issue with Rousey, however. Both Liv Morgan and Rusev also expressed their thoughts on the video.
Morgan would reflect that “my body is sore all the time … that’s not fake. That’s real.”
Ronda’s words have clearly disgruntled a number of people in the industry, but the question remains: just how much of a shoot is it? It will be interesting to see if there is any sort of ramification for her vocal, and public, breaking of kayfabe.
As the Road To Wrestlemania continues, it’s looking more and more like a Triple Threat match will, in fact, determine who will be the RAW Women’s Champion. Most fans preferred to see a singles contest between Ronda Rousey and Becky Lynch. However, WWE has decided to insert Charlotte Flair into the mix.
Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio reports that injury risk played a factor in WWE’s decision. These days, WWE stars are getting hurt a lot more frequently. One reason WWE was motivated to book a Triple Threat was because, if one woman became injured, they could still make a singles match. The report notes that this is not a major reason for the decision, but it was one reason.
Currently, the match only officially includes Rousey and Flair at WrestleMania. However, on this week’s episode of Monday Night RAW, WWE set the scene for how Lynch will be added to the match. If she defeats Flair in singles competition at Fastlane this weekend (Sun. March 10, 2019), “The Irish Lass Kicker” will be WrestleMania-bound. Lynch has been dealing with a storyline injury for the past few weeks on WWE TV.
RAW ended with the 2019 Women’s Royal Rumble winner taking a vicious beating from the RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey. Her condition will likely be worsened for her match with Flair, so that should be a key storyline Sunday night. The Triple Threat match between Flair, Rousey, and Lynch is expected to be the first-ever women’s match to headline a WrestleMania card.
What do you think about the Triple Threat match between Lynch, Rousey, and Flair?
WWE has announced that Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch in a singles match will take place at the Fastlane PPV.
Stephanie McMahon announced in a backstage segment on Monday’s RAW episode that all charges against Becky Lynch have been dropped and that her 60-day suspension has been lifted. If Lynch wins at Fastlane then she’ll be added to the RAW Women’s Title Match between Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 35. However, if she loses then she’s done. For weeks now, the belief is that Flair vs. Lynch vs. Rousey for the title will take place at WrestleMania 35.
WWE presents the Fastlane pay-per-view event on March 10, 2019 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio that will air on the WWE Network. WWE will be announcing more matches for this show in the coming days. Here is the updated card:
Updated WWE Fastlane Card
WWE Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Kevin Owens
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos vs. Shane McMahon & The Miz
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Sasha Banks & Bayley vs. Nia Jax & Tamina
WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka vs. Mandy Rose
Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch
What are your thoughts on this match being added to the card? Sound off in the comment section.
The WWE Network, which is the streaming service of the company, is slated to air a new episode of their ‘Chronicle’ series featuring former WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns will air following RAW this Monday night.
This comes after Reigns returned to WWE television on this past Monday’s RAW where he announced that his leukemia is in remission. He did not announce when he will wrestle again, but he got physical later in the show.
It should be noted that he’s advertised for all Monday Night RAW TV events through the May 6th episode in Cincinnati as well as the Fastlane pay-per-view event. WWE has yet to announce his opponent at the final event before WrestleMania 35 in April but you can find out by clicking this link. Here’s the synopsis for this documentary:
“Follow Roman Reigns as he returns to Raw to give an update on his battle with leukemia.”
Charlotte Flair Trains Lucha Libre
Former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair has been busy training her skills as she’s in Mexico City this weekend and working with a “top secret” trainer. Flair shared this photo on her official Twitter account:
I’ll work on my Twitter game after Mania. For now, Lucha Libre training in Mexico City with my “top secret” trainer #volaqqueen 👸 pic.twitter.com/aNxBwsjxhi
WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross sees Charlotte Flair as a modern day Hulk Hogan and the lynchpin of WWE’s Women’s division.
On the latest episode of the Jim Ross Report podcast, JR analyzed Charlotte’s promo from this week’s SmackDown Live. In doing so, he raved about how far she’s come and compares Charlotte to one of WWE’s biggest stars of all time.
“She’s the female version of what Hulk Hogan was to the WWE in the 80s,” Ross says. “She’s that strong. She’s that over, that big, that impressive.”
Ross goes on to say that just as Flair has been a building block in the women’s division, she could play just as big a role in the company as a whole.
“You can build around her. You can build a brand around her. I’ve said this before, and people got pissed off,” he says. “They said I screwed her dad.”
Ross was a big fan of Charlotte’s mic work, and her overall presentation on Smackdown.
“Charlotte had a great promo, in the sense that she looked regal,” says Ross. “She looked majestic. From her attire, to her shoes, all the way to her hair. She looked like I am the woman in this company. She’s a hell of a talent. She’s statuesque.”
He added, “She did really well. She looked strong. She looked like a top star, as she is.”
Charlotte Flair told reporters in North Carolina recently that she isn’t over the death of her brother. Reid Flair died on March 29th, 2013 at the age of 25.
“I wish I could say that I was over losing my brother, but I’m not,” Flair told the Charlotte Observer. “I mean, I have so many regrets. … How did my brother never get to see me wrestle? … I ask myself that every single day: How am I here, where I am, and he never got to see me? This was his dream. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it.”
Reid Flair had just returned home from a tour with AJPW in Japan at the time of his death.
Charlotte also spoke about the unique challenges she faces in her career due to being Ric Flair’s daughter.
“My dad’s legacy means the world to me,” Flair said. “(But) do I pay homage to him or do I not? Is it OK to ‘WOO’ , is it not OK, Is it too much? Is it not? I just have to tell myself, and remember, that I am way more athletic than my dad was and what I am doing now, it’s OK to continue my dad’s legacy and carry the last name, and WOO, and strut, and do all those things because … I’m going above and beyond and showing that I’m also a talent — versus just Flair’s kid.”
Former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair took a good beating in a recent angle done in order to build towards a historic match.
The star on the blue brand sat a ringside to watch Ronda Rousey retain the WWE RAW Women’s Title over Ruby Riott at the second pay-per-view event of the new year, Elimination Chamber, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
After the match, Rousey had a stare down with Flair until Becky Lynch walked out on crutches through the crowd. Lynch then attacks Flair with one of the crutches as Rousey just watches. This led to Lynch then attacking Rousey as well with the crutch until the referees came out with security to break things up.
Flair took to social media to show off her bruise from the attack as she posted this photo on Instagram, courtesy of IWNerd.com:
As of this writing, WWE has yet to announce who Flair is slated to face at the next pay-per-view event, which will mark the final show before WrestleMania, as its Fastlane that goes down on March 10, 2019 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
Flair is slate to challenge Rousey for the strap at WrestleMania 35 in April.
WWE ran an angle this weekend at live event that saw Charlotte Flair viciously attack Becky Lynch.
On Saturday night in Alexandria, LA, SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka was battling Flair with the strap on the line when Lynch came from out of nowhere to attack Flair. However, things didn’t go Lynch’s way as Flair landed a kick to Lynch’s knee then tied up her knee up in the ropes and continuously hitting it with a steel chair.
After the angle, WWE announced on their official website that Lynch has “re-injured” her knee after the vicious attack. This comes after WWE Chairman McMahon announced that Lynch had been suspended 60 days and replaced by Flair to challenge WWE RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey for the strap at WrestleMania.
As of this writing, WWE has yet to announce that Flair will be competing at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Although it’s unlikely that she’ll compete at this show, she has vowed to be there. Her intentions are to watch Rousey make her next title defense against Ruby Riott at this show.
Check out this video of Charlotte attacking Becky Lynch Saturday night:
Ruby Riott will take on Ronda Rousey for a chance to win the RAW Women’s Championship Sunday at Elimination Chamber. She recently expressed on Twitter that Rousey is looking past their upcoming match.
Who cares about what’s best for business or what these people want?! You’re so focused on giving the #WomensEvolution what they deserve, that you’re not even looking at #EliminationChamber. So I’ll gladly take your title & main event #Wrestlemania whether they like it or not. https://t.co/aLZSBJWtey
Charlotte Flair chimed in with a Tweet as well. “I’ve been saying ‘Flair/Rousey’, but let me make something VERY clear,” Flair said. “Ruby Riott is as tough as they come, and that squad of hers will do ANYTHING to get gold around her waist. If Ronda is focused on Mania, Ruby is going to leave Elimination Chamber with that title.”
Riott and Rousey have met once in single’s action before. Rousey defeated Riott on the October 1st RAW. Rousey teamed with the Bellas twice to defeat the Riott Squad as well.
Riott then followed up Rousey’s response with the following:
Ronda Rousey believes the Women’s Evolution was robbed. The alleged offense took place last night when Vince McMahon replaced Becky Lynch with Charlotte Flair in the WrestleMania 35 main event.
Rousey issued a response to the decision recently. The reigning RAW Women’s Championship made her feelings known on Instagram.
Becky Lynch also took to social media in reaction to Vince McMahon’s announcement. Lynch referred to the match announcement as “complete and utter bulls**t”.
“Take your apology, and shove it up your arse.” – Becky Lynch, RAW 2/11/19
7x WWE Women’s Champion, Charlotte Flair, also reacted to news she’ll be wrestling Ronda Rousey at Mania. She took to Twitter to fend off some who are critical of her replacing Becky Lynch in the Mania main event.
“Wow, I didn’t realize that so many of you didn’t want me in the match. Taking that into account, I’ll be asking management to remove me effectively immediately,” Flair Tweeted. “J/K I could not possibly care less what you think.”
I’m sure you would. That would make you feel right at home.
Becky Lynch hit Charlotte Flair with quite a shot this week on SmackDown Live. Fans have WWE Hall Of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler to thank for that. Lawler revealed on a recent episode of his podcast, “Dinner With The King,” that he gave “The Irish Lass Kicker” on how to throw a good punch.
Lawler said he recently ran into Lynch backstage at a WWE event. They’ve exchanged greetings in the past but had never had a real conversation. Lawler said Lynch ran up to him and said she had been binge-watching a lot of “The King.” Lynch said Vince McMahon recently told her that he wanted her to be more physical.
She couldn’t think of anyone who throws a better punch in the business than Lawler. Lawler told Lynch he always tried to throw a punch the way someone would really try to hit somebody else. Aiming for their face or nose, and not making your fist so rigid and hard. Then, on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live, Lynch hit Flair with a punch that looked very much like Lawler’s inside the ring.
Shortly after, Lynch and Lawler had the following exchange on Twitter:
“That’s a Jerry Lawler punch if I’ve ever seen one! Beautiful!”
