10 Fascinating WWE Backstage Facts About Charlotte Flair
9. The Insane Story Of Her 2022 Women's Title Win
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Charlotte Flair’s December 2022 return to television felt like bait for those that have often felt she carries a golden ticket for title shots around everywhere she goes.
After months off television, ‘The Queen’ returned to challenge and beat Ronda Rousey in an impromptu SmackDown Women’s Championship Match after ‘The Baddest Woman On The Planet’ had just endured a war with Raquel Rodriguez.
Per Ronda, this was her call entirely. Writing in her autobiography Our Fight, she said;
"I found Charlotte as she was getting ready to rehearse and informed her that she would be walking out of the arena with the title. She didn’t have her gear, she pointed out, but she could send someone to make the two-and a-half-hour roundtrip drive to her house to get it."
Adding that it was make or break for her in the company at the time, Rousey added;
“Do it,” I said.It wasn’t an ask; it was a demand. [Paul] Heyman knew me well enough to read between the lines and relay to creative the part that I had left unsaid: that if I didn’t get my way this time, I was going to walk."
The whole thing took just 41 seconds, making it Flair's quickest title win of the 14 she's amassed.