A wrestler who can’t stand Charlotte Flair

“Queen” Charlotte Flair is already a future WWE Hall of Fame with over a decade of experience among the ropes, starting with “WWE NXT”, where she took women’s wrestling to the forefront and launched a women’s revolution along with her fellow four-horse women. The daughter of WWE’s legendary Rick Flair, her natural talent was shown to the world on her first televised broadcast with Bailey in July 2013, leaving with her first WWE victory.

Flare has won since her on-screen debut. From the NXT Women’s Championship and the since-retired Diva Championship to the December 2023 episode of “WWE Smackdown,” she won another ruler from the then-Smackdown Women’s Championship. She is just like her father, a 16-time world champion, and that’s not where the similarities end. Flair has worked as a heel for most of her career, and it appears that fans have come to resent the “Queen” due to the opportunities she has gained during her many title reigns.

Fans aren’t the only ones who have been upset with talent these days. Many wrestlers she has worked with over the years are not her biggest fans. There are many wrestlers in both WWE, as Tiffany Stratton and the recent war of words between the pair who nurtured the personal lives of both women, falling with her ex-best friend or a horse woman, and she seems to have been defeated and stunted push in her own quest for more money.

One of Flair’s most infamous falls happened at Becky Lynch. The pair were tight at the time of “NXT” but things got worse when they reached the main roster. Their issues were made public during the belt replacement segment in October 2021. Both women were champions at the time, but were drafted for the opposite brand. That is, they remained in the right brand because they had to trade “raw” and “Smackdown” women’s championships. During the segment, “The Queen” suddenly dropped her title on the canvas, leaving it for Lynch to pick up. Lynch retaliated by throwing a belt at Flair. Fans saw what became known as one of the more obnoxious segments of “Smackdown” that year, but things also got heated behind the scenes.

Flair and Lynch exchanged words behind the scenes. “The Man” was because I thought Flair was trying to make her look bad during the segment. Behind the scenes, things got heated, but not physical. The pair faced that year’s Survivor Series, and Flair confirmed to Ariel Helwani shortly afterwards. Lynch said in an episode of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s “Broken Skull Session” that she plans to hold both belts for a while, but Flair didn’t want to look weak. In another episode of the podcast, Flair told Austin that she accidentally dropped her belt.

In 2025, things between “man” and “queen” look cool again. They appeared together at a press conference after teaming up in the Survivor Series Wargames in 2023, but both looked emotional about rekindling friendship. Lynch opened up further about their relationship and said that while they may always butt their heads, she was pleased that there was no more hostility between them.

Maria Canelis and Flair never met in the ring, but the former WWE diva attacked some of Flair’s comments she made in the storyline while rebutting with Carmela at the Smackdown Women’s Championship in August 2018. Mera begins talking about garbage in comments about the change in Flare’s appearance, and “The Queen” fights back with her own vicious insult. She told Carmela that she was a “diva who lives in a woman’s era,” so fans didn’t respect her.

A staple of WWE’s Diva era, Kanellis became a major force in women’s wrestling, which evolved in a variety of other companies like Ring of Honor, but he was less kind to the “Diva” comments. She took her to her Instagram account and posted a photo of herself in the days of WWE Diva with a message to Flair. She called herself a “real diva” and told her to be careful to “peek at the women who fought for what you’re getting.” Canelis said that all women at the time were divas for reasons and that everyone was important in the evolution of women’s wrestling.

“We were on the trench every day with full makeup, dresses and heels. “I’m still fighting babies, carriers, husbands, stigmas. Is it better to fight for the system or spot? Both.

Tiffany Stratton is one of the latest wrestlers with Flair issues, and has been experiencing issues taking place at home with crowds before the WWE Women’s Championship match at WrestleMania 41. However, things didn’t go well as Stratton was back in her developmental days when Flair decided to win her second Royal Rumble and challenge Stratton at Wrestle Mania after making a comeback from a serious knee injury.

Things started to get clarified during the first promotion segment. This was a split screen interview. Flare rules the conversation and continues talking on top of the champion, Stratton gets irritated and repeats as she tries to get her bearings back. However, the moments that the wrestling world was actually talking took place a few weeks later in a promotional segment within the ring, moderated by “SmackDown” commentator Wade Barrett, so the women were not physical. They were not hit, but the woman quickly fell off the script.

It reportedly booin rained on her, so she first took things off the rails with a line about being “Queen of Nepo” before posing for the crowd. The crowd seemed rattled and he gave up the segment and told Stratton he could have his last words. Stratton took a shot at Flair’s recent divorce. Flair called her “0-3 in marriage” and said she was alone after WrestleMania, just like her personal life. Flair called out to Stratton when Stratton’s boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser ran up the ramp that he was on her DMS. The woman was not given a live microphone again before the enthusiasts got a match.

Of all four horses, Lynch was Flair’s most problematic in his previous career, but she and Sasha Banks (now Mercedes is AEW and Mercedes have) weren’t always eye contact either. Their problems were surprisingly restrained from when the horse woman reached height in “WWE NXT”. In her book, Flair pointed out that she wrote with her father “Second Nature.” The pair put a burden on their friendship when Flair won her first gold with the developmental brand. She writes that it started when she was given an NXT Women’s Championship match with Natalia in her first NXT acquisition in 2014. Banks was left on the sidelines, but Flair played a great match in an era when women’s revolution was really steaming.

In the storyline, the bank began to flare subtly with her promotion, and during her full-scale feud, she took one of Flair’s “do it with Flair” shirts and changed it to make it her own. The bank also calls Rick Flair the “pathetic old man” of the promotion. The feud led them to a match at NXT Takeover:R Evolution. Flair retained the title at the event after pinning the bank following natural selection from the top rope.

In “Second Nature,” Flair praised Banks’ in-ring ability, but did not further clarify whether the pair had ever corrected it before heading to the main roster. When the four-horse woman was first called, there were no behind-the-scenes reports of tension between Flair and Banks, who appeared to work together behind the scenes with the ring until the WWE of Banks departed in 2022.

Fans tend to forget that Sonya Devil was in the ring, too, during the infamous belt exchange segment where the world was coming from a friendship perspective with talent and Lynch. The “SmackDown” general manager at the time was intended to mediate segments of the storyline before they left the rails. After Flair dropped the title and hoping Lynch would pick it up, Devil, put in a nasty position when Flair deviates from the script, demands “The Queen” and instead picks up the title, trying to make things a bit nasty.

Lynch and Flair were not the only ones caught up in the war of words following a behind-the-scenes segment in gorilla status before Vince McMahon and Bruce Pritchard. According to Pwinsider at the time, Deville was “ridden enough to fight Flai,” and she got caught up in the discussion behind the scenes. According to the outlet, Flair was escorted from the building by WWE officials, and those close to Flair pointed out that it was a sign of disrespect, given her family’s history and how important she is to the Blue Brand.

As of May 2025, Flair and Deville never patched things up before Deville left WWE.

Flare doesn’t seem to have any prolonged issues with Nia Jacks, but the pair played a match in August 2021 that ranged from a professional wrestling match to a legal battle. Flair was the raw women’s champion at the time, and although the match started relatively normally, it was probably a bit stiff and troublesome. However, things seemed to get worse towards the end of the match and become more pronounced.

Flare appears to have stopped selling Jacks’ attacks and is kicked out in one. The women began to push each other and Flair slapped Jacks twice in the face. They were engrossed in what appeared to be a real struggle in the middle of the ring, tucking in and pulling their hair. When Flair tried to get the match back on track with a chop, Jacks refused to sell the move. I was able to hear Jacks tell the champion “don’t.” Jacks smacked him in the face several more times before regaining the match on the rails. The match wasn’t a championship, but Jacks won the victory after the Powerbomb. However, she was booked to win the match, but after how troublesome the match was, she didn’t get into business for herself.

Jax makes it clear in the episode of “Session with Lenny Packet” that it all stems from misunderstanding. She said Flair was one of her best friends and didn’t know what was going on, but it was intense. Jax says they made compensation almost immediately, and agrees that things are pointlessly out of hand.

WWE fans began to be disillusioned with her consistent victory over Flair and other fan favorites in 2018. Things got worse for those who weren’t fans of The Queen when Asuka, a patriotic “WWE NXT” star who never gained pins in WWE’s developed brand, came to the main Roster. Asuka had been having a very hot streak and had to abandon the NXT women’s championship before being called out.

Asuka held over 500 days of money before joining “Raw.” “The Embless of Tomorrow” won the 2018 Royal Rumble and chose to challenge Flair at Wrestlemania 34. Flair suddenly beat Asuka on “The Agone of All’s Most Epic Stage,” winning in 914 days, the longest in recent wrestling history. Avid “NXT” fans weren’t happy with the move, and in addition to Vince McMahon, they denounced Flair for a terrible booking.

Many fans have argued that despite Asuka winning numerous championships since her first defeat at Flair’s hands in the first Wrestlemania, she has never recovered completely. Asuka has never spoken publicly about Flair’s behind the scenes issues, but “The Queen” which ends her impressive winning streak is where many WWE fans have begun to dislike Flair.

Current AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm has been an asset to Tony Kahn’s company for many years, but before Mariah May competed in a bloody deathmatch on pay-per-view, she tried to find her way in Vince McMahon’s WWE after spending most of that time on “WWE NXT UK.” Her final feud at the company opposed Flair towards the end of 2021. Storm never spoke publicly to Flair, but the former NXT UK women’s champion finished all over the company by the time Flair hit her with a pie in the ringside face. Storm was out of WWE soon.

Following his departure from WWE, Storm explained that he would not hit her with a pie on national television that broke the camel’s back for her. According to Storm, Flair was meant to strip off her shirt, so she was supposed to be in an embarrassing position in her underwear. Storm reluctantly said that she was OK with this segment because “people were fired every week,” but others fought back at the idea. It is unclear whether flare is one of the things that oppose the angle. Storm told Lenny Puckett in an episode of “Session” that her feud with Flair had lost her love for the wrestling business and was thinking of quitting forever.

Rhea Ripley is currently one of WWE’s hottest products, but in 2020, when she was still working on the WWE developmental brand, the feud with Flair had little of the “Eradicator” we’re doing today. Ripley has not publicly commented on her malice towards talent, but fans certainly won’t look kindly back on these times, given how popular Ripley is now.

Flair won her first Royal Rumble in 2020, and instead of rebutting main roster champions Becky Lynch and Bailey, she had rebutted many times before, so she returned to “WWE NXT” and challenged Ripley for that year’s NXT women’s championship at WrestleMania. Ripley was a fire-up champion at the time and was one of the brand’s most popular women, so fans may have thought this was the time Flair would lose to the hot up-and-coming people. But not so, despite the women playing a great match, Flair defeated Ripley and won a lack of governance in the NXT title.

The following year, Ripley was still trying to find her path as a character, replacing Flair in a Wrestlemania 37 match against Asuka, who won the Raw Women’s Championship. When Flair returned it felt like Ripley’s Championship Reign was in the time he borrowed. With bank money, Flair defeated Ripley decisively. The pair will continue their best and most highly rated match at WrestleMania 39. There, Ripley ultimately won the SmackDown Women’s Champion, solidifying her status as “Mami” we know today.