10 Fascinating WWE Backstage Facts About Charlotte Flair
2. A Real Life Relationship Resulted In A Fictional Tag Team Breakup
After a long of intentionally splitting couples and friendship groups up in some sort of strange ritualised testing of their workers' mettle, WWE has more recently worked to keep partners together whenever a Draft or "Superstar Shake-up" rolls around. The compromises are typically so effortless that it speaks to the sociopathic cruelty of Vince McMahon in the first place to even not try and make these arrangements, but one such case in 2019 did result in the dissolution of a popular tag team.
Having been called up to the main roster without much forethought, Aleister Black and Ricochet were paired together and had unsurprisingly excellent chemistry. Their NXT TakeOver: New York opener opposite The War Raiders may be one of the most underrated doubles matches in company history, and it looked as thought they were going to continue in that vein of form until real life relationships resulted in a parting of the ways. One of which was Charlotte Flair's with Andrade.
'El Idolo' was associated on screen with Zelina Vega at this time, and with those moving to SmackDown in order to keep him and Flair together, so too did Black - the real life partner of Vega. It was decided that 'The One & Only' was needed for the red brand, meaning that - by this convoluted and circuitous route - the team were split and never spoken about again.