5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE TLC 2020

3. Charlotte Cena Is Back

Charlotte Flair TLC 2020
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We’ll give some love to Charlotte Flair later, but can we just comment her return to action Sunday night?

After six months away, Charlotte teamed up as Asuka’s mystery partner against Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler. The Queen proceeded to run through the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, barely selling anything from the dominant champs and basically treating them like cannon fodder. Meanwhile, Asuka, the Raw Women’s Champion, got to play face-in-peril and absorb much of the champs’ offense.

In the end, Charlotte shrugged off two Kirafuda attempts by Baszler before nailing a Natural Selection to capture the tag titles, knocking off the champs in barely 10 minutes. And she didn’t even break a nail.

Sorry, one of the criticisms of Flair during her previous run was that she was basically the female version of John Cena during his prime – never showing weakness, always coming out on top, shrugging off opponents’ attacks, etc. On her first night back, she almost single-handedly ran through two imposing villains to dethrone them.

Sound familiar?

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.