25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against
21. Charlotte Flair
Charlotte Flair might not have imagined that her 2025 return (at the Royal Rumble, with a victory in the Rumble match itself no less) would require rescuing by aligning her with Alexa Bliss less than six months later, but fans had made it crystal clear what they thought of her before she linked up with her fellow golden era NXT alumni.
It would have been reasonable to assume that absence had made hearts grow fonder for Flair, but outside of the battle royal win, the opposite was true. Flair was positioned against WWE Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton heading into WrestleMania, and when their promo battles very quickly developed into both women delivering fairly sharp barbs at one another, the fans made it clear who they favoured.
'The Queen' couldn't mask her disappointment at how quickly things had reverted to type, but what chance did she really have? The character had been relentlessly spotlighted during the last insane years of Vince McMahon's creative tenure, so much so that unfavourable comparisons were constantly made to the dire Roman Reigns megapush of the 2010s. Audiences have long memories, and the prospect of yet another extended singles run for the Charlotte Flair character at Stratton's expense pinpointed something very specific from the recent past they simply had no thirst for.
Ultimately, their WrestleMania battle was decent, Flair lost and the crowd - now free from panic - gradually re-embraced her as one of the division's true legacy players.