Charlotte’s Flair For The Gold - How WWE Ruined Their Own Revolution
The show came just hours after news broke she apparently wanted to challenge for a male title, and wow people weren't half up in arms about that too. Ignoring the swathes of sexist responses, because of course they were lurking, there were some more rational voices that simply felt they were trapped in her Figure Eight and had been tapping out for years. No more, ref, please, I quit!
To paraphrase a 'Rattlesnake' that was used every week on Raw and SmackDown for several years and beat everybody in that time, here's the deal on that gimmick - if WWE were serious about inter-gender wrestling, there'd be few better suited for it than Charlotte Flair. Something rarely built into the psychology of her matches is that she carries a size advantage over most of her opponents. It'd be handy against some of the physically larger wrestlers in the other locker room.
The overarching success of the Tessa Blanchard/Sami Callahan programme has laid the foundations for either WWE or AEW to follow next and monetise best. Blanchard's Impact Heavyweight Title run would be making history daily had it not been for the ongoing global circumstances or the fact that so few people seem to engage with that brand in a meaningful way for anything more than one newsworthy match-per-year.
There are worse ideas than strapping Charlotte Flair, in a nutshell. She'd actively elevate one of those lost cause midcard titles for sure, and from WWE's grubby point of view, they'd have the perfect kickstarter for another perfectly polished "Revolution"...
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