WWE Evolution: Star Ratings For All 7 Matches

Vs. Sasha Banks, RAW, November 28, 2016.

Vs. Bayley, RAW, February 13, 2017.

Vs. Asuka, WrestleMania 34, April 8, 2018.

And now, Vs. Becky Lynch, October 28, 2018.

Though WWE really could do with disguising it better, there is a reason why the company is so high on Charlotte Flair. Everybody has their best match with her on the main roster.

This match was the best of the lot; positively awesome, and right up there with the best WWE women's matches ever, it bears repeating how deep the real-life friendship runs between both performers - because they worked an atmosphere of total animosity. The hatred was as palpable as it was manufactured.

Dispensing with the they-know-each-other-inside-out stuff that manifested as sloppy chain-wrestling in straight singles, Charlotte and Becky transposed the heat and brutality of their phenomenal segment work to an outstanding half-hour epic. The storytelling soared like the chairs did in that early sequence; throughout the programme, both women acted with a certain stubbornness. The chairs kept flying. The assaults became more and more vicious. This was the brutal culmination of everything.

Exorcising the ghost of her last major pay-per-view stipulation, Charlotte refused to accept a defiant table. Using her experience and instincts, she broke it, and created another stunning moment of suspense, by drilling Becky with an unplanned senton. As the fight spilled over to the arena, Charlotte and Becky chopped the hell out of each other. It is a cliché, but they put the 'fight' in the big fight feel, and even the more ostentatious spots felt organic.

No WWE performer has arguably sold the effects of weapon shots quite like Charlotte Flair did last night. Authentic but not overwrought, Charlotte, who must at this point be considered WWE's most undervalued performer, looked to be in abject agony throughout.

Both women entered the performances of their careers, and the right woman won.

Outstanding.

Star Rating: ****3/4