10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WWE Yet

1. The Charlotte Flair Conundrum

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Charlotte Flair is a multi-time former WWE Champion and, at this point, living legend of the company's women's division, but has developed a pattern of having matches on television and Premium Live Events that are basically diametrically opposed to one another.

This is the strangest problem to have if you're management, because to not use an objectively massive star in your ranks as often as possible would be stupid, but to highlight the flaws more regularly than the strengths undermines the message you're trying to get across that she's an all-time great.

The answer as of right now appears to be to just keep on keeping on. Flair had one of the best matches of the year against Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 39, and was a surprisingly welcome addition to the SummerSlam 2023 triple threat. She might do forward rolls rather than back bumps and telegraph chops long and loud enough for extra-terrestrials to know when to expect them if you're watching SmackDown or Raw, but on the company's grandest stages, she delivers.

The pattern will be untenable eventually, but if her uneasy presence as a babyface on the blue brand is anything to go by, it's not something the company sees as a problem now, if ever.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett