10 Most Awkward "Didn't Get All Of It" Wrestling Moments

4. Charlotte Flair Kicks Nobody

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Something is up with Charlotte Flair, and has been for some time.

In 2018, she was on fire; working a classic WWE plunder brawl at Evolution with the same brilliance as a super-intense and hateful no-frills fight at Survivor Series, as much as she didn't belong in the Becky Lynch Vs. Ronda Rousey programme, you can almost excuse WWE for doing it: Charlotte Flair showed that she was as good as WWE told you, very insistently, that she was.

That was the peak. Did headlining WrestleMania spark the change into a high school gym Honky Tonk Man era performer who no longer "does" bumping?

That's a joke, obviously; Flair is still capable of brilliance, though it is obscured by a horrific ratio of f*ck finishes that render her best work virtually meaningless. But when she isn't "motivated", she wrestles in a way that can be best described as "weird".

The skyscraper ego might explain her insistence on thinking she can pull off the moonsault feint, but what explained the phantom kicks she aimed at Rhea Ripley at Hell In A Cell? Laziness? Malfunctioning autopilot mode?

In any event, all this constant talk of a legacy doesn't wash, when Flair can only be arsed to curate it half the time.

 
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