16 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Night’s WWE SmackDown

4. Charlotte Didn’t Sell Her Knee

Charlotte Flair Peyton Royce
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At Backlash, the idea that Charlotte had tweaked her knee played a big part in the SmackDown Women's Title match finish. Carmella was able to capitalise, and she boasted about Flair's slight injury afterwards. On SmackDown, WWE completely forgot it happened.

So did Charlotte.

Corey Graves didn't, and he insisted that Flair kept nursing the pain in her knee in between moves. That didn't look to be the case on camera (Charlotte never limped, grimaced or put her hand on the limb throughout her match with Peyton Royce) and she won with the Figure Eight, a move that would have hurt her own leg.

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