10 Most Shameless WWE Promotional Tactics
3. Exploiting The Death Of Reid Flair
Horribly effective at causing needless hurt mostly just because it would have been so simple to avoid, the invoking of the recently deceased Reid Flair spoke to the cruelty of the company promoting the matches rather than the characters standing inside its right.
Ahead of a Survivor Series 2015 clash with friend-turned-rival Paige, Charlotte Flair discussed life as a world-famous wrestler's daughter, and the sister of her late brother following his suicide two years earlier. 'The Queen' said she would fight "as her family always had". Paige spat back "your little baby brother didn't have much fight in him did he?".
It was multifariously cruel. Neither gasping nor booing, the live audience didn't really know how to react. Nor, apparently did Ric Flair. Ordinarily, a company cheerleader, 'The Nature Boy' apparently wasn't given any prior warning that something so callous was set to be thrown out as if it were just another committee-scripted zinger.