9 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Feb 11)
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Offering the sort of insights that wouldn't be found anywhere else, Charlotte Flair revealed that she needed a ticket for catering during her return to Full Sail University for last week's edition of NXT.
This was good patter, and brought the best out in the rest of the panel. Booker inadvertently alluded to all of the company's talent warehousing by noting how there's "like 100 guys down there" as Renee Young made cracks about Norman Smiley stockpiling all the snacks.
Flair had much to say about a variety of different issues, but this was one of the more unique and off piste insights into life on the black-and-gold brands.
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