Bianca Belair Vents About Charlotte Flair Getting WWE Women's Championship Match

EST unloads on the Queen returning, jumping the line for title match with Asuka.

by Scott Carlson
Bianca Belair
WWE

In what can easily be described as questionable behavior for a supposed babyface, Charlotte Flair returned to SmackDown Friday night, issued a challenge, and was immediately granted a title match for Asuka's newly established WWE Women's Championship.

That line-jumping has riled former women's champion Bianca Belair, who was patiently waiting for her chance to regain the title she just lost. Belair held the Raw Women's Championship for nearly 14 months before losing it to Asuka at Night of Champions last month.

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On SmackDown, Bianca agreed to WWE official Adam Pearce's request to remain in the back and not interfere with the Empress of Tomorrow's championship presentation ceremony after being promised a rematch. That's when Charlotte struck.

Belair was not having it, taking to Twitter Saturday to vent:

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The EST followed up by making a strained joke about Flair pointing at the Raw Title and that they were challenging Asuka for different titles.

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Charlotte's return was her first WWE TV appearance since losing the SmackDown Women's Championship to Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 39. This also was the third time in less than three years that Flair returned from a hiatus and was immediately thrust into a championship match. She won the Women's Tag Titles in December 2020 (with Asuka) after a six-month break, and she captured the SmackDown Title in on New Year's Eve 2022 after seven months away.

A Belair heel turn off this would not be out of the question, but it's very possible that it could backfire in the way fans sided with Becky Lynch against Charlotte in 2018. Flair jumping the line and demanding -- and being granted -- a title match does not exactly scream "babyface."

We'll have to see how this plays out, whether Charlotte shows her true colors or if it's Bianca whose frustration boils over.

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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.