10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Charlotte Flair
7. THAT Stephanie McMahon Promo
Charlotte Flair was riding high a week removed from cutting a scathing promo on her father Ric back in the summer of 2016, brutally decrying his help and influence on her career before banishing him from her entourage entirely.
The division's top heel and a fabulous (and constantly improving) wrestler, Flair had ascended to the point where eventual victory for Sasha Banks or a fellow babyface over the malevolent titleholder was destined to be sweet solace. 'Slick Ric' was, at this point, surplus to requirements. It's almost as if all of that was too good to be true. Stephanie McMahon, just seven days after this mini-milestone in the Champion's career, rocked up and attempted to siphon all that heat for herself in one of the most spectacularly hypocritical misfires the company have ever scripted.
Without a drop of irony, McMahon said how "embarrassed" she was to have Charlotte as champion, calling her "spoiled, selfish and self-important". Flair tried desperately to interject, presumably to highlight how mind-numbingly absurd that sounded coming from the woman born into the company, but as usual, 'Daddy's Little Girl' trampled over any of that.
She advised the most-pushed woman on the roster to "step back and shut her mouth", just to remind us all who the real dominant female was.