If WWE would have ever built a figure meant to be the wrestling standard, at least from the women’s division, it would exactly look like Charlotte Flair. This lady was born to hold championships and shatter records while creating new ones, every now and then. As her great father used to say, ‘To be the man you gotta beat the woman,’ Flair managed to use the proverb for the female division.
Winning titles on twelve separate occasions, Royal Rumble and main-eventing WrestleMania have become a daily-basis task for Charlotte Flair who has beaten them all en route to her path of glory. In her own quotes, she just can’t be topped and this could technically be proven when one day she surpasses her father Ric Flair’s sixteen world championship wins.
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For now, we’d have a look back to her illustrious career of The Queen as well as her personal life,
– Charlotte Flair was born with the real name of Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr on April 5, 1986, to Ric Flair and his then-wife Elizabeth Harrell. She has an older half-sister, Megan, and an older half-brother, David. Her younger brother Reid died on March 29, 2013, who was mentioned on WWE TV in the past.
– Charlotte Flair was quite the sportsperson as she won two NCHSAA 4 A-State championships for volleyball during her time at Providence High School. She used to be the team captain and player for the year 2004-2005. She attended Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina while playing volleyball in the 2005 and 2006 seasons before moving to North Carolina State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in public relations in 2008. She was also a certified personal trainer in this field prior to becoming a wrestler.
– The first time she appeared in a professional wrestling ring was at the age of 14, appearing with her father in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion. She was billed as Ashley Flair during his feud with Vince Russo and her half-brother David. On the May 15 episode of Monday Nitro, Flair appeared in a video in which Russo, David, and Daffney invaded the Flair’s family home until being confronted by Flair, her mother Beth, and her brother Reid.
– Ashley signed a developmental contract with WWE on May 17, 2012, and trained under Lodi in North Carolina before joining NXT, the WWE developmental territory, in Tampa, Florida. Sara Del Rey was her new trainer in NXT. Here she adopted the ring name Charlotte Flair where she had her first televised singles match on the July 17, 2013, episode of NXT, where she defeated Bayley.
– On April 6, 2014, at WrestleMania XXX, Flair appeared alongside Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss in Triple H’s entrance for his match against Daniel Bryan.
– Charlotte Flair competed in an eight-woman tournament for the vacant NXT Women’s Championship, a month later. She ended up defeating Emma in the first round, Alexa Bliss in the semifinals and Natalya Neidhart in the finale at NXT TakeOver on May 29, 2014, to win the NXT Women’s Championship for the first time in her career that also marked her first championship win in the WWE.
– On July 13, 2015, episode of Monday Night Raw, Stephanie McMahon announced a “revolution” in the Divas division by introducing Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Sasha Banks as members of the main roster. Charlotte and Lynch allied with Paige and then engaged in a feud with Team Bella (Alicia Fox and The Bella Twins)
– On September 20 at Night of Champions, Charlotte Flair defeated Nikki Bella in a rematch to win the Divas Championship for the first time.
– A triple threat match between Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch for the Divas Championship was scheduled for WrestleMania 32. At the event, a new WWE Women’s Championship was introduced retiring the Divas Championship. Flair defeated Banks and Lynch to become the inaugural champion whereas she’d always remain as the last Divas Champion.
– Charlotte Flair was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2016 WWE draft on July 19th. She made her first appearance for the red brand on the July 25 episode of Raw, where she lost the WWE Women’s Championship to Sasha Banks. The reign ended after 113 days but 27 days later on August 21 at SummerSlam, Charlotte won the title rematch against Banks and thus becoming a two-time champion.
– She dropped the title to Banks once again in the main event of the October 3 episode of Raw. 27 days later, At Hell in a Cell on October 30, Flair regained the title from Banks in the first-ever women’s Hell in a Cell match to become a three-time women’s champion. It was also the first time that a women’s match featured last on a WWE pay-per-view card.
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– On the November 28 episode of Raw, Charlotte Flair competed against Sasha Banks in a falls count anywhere match, where Banks defeated Flair for the title. After this, Ric Flair came out and celebrated with Banks. A 30-minute iron man match between the two went down at Roadblock: End of the Line on December 18 where Flair picked up the win at sudden death with the score being 3-2 in her favor and thus became a four-time Raw Women’s Champion.
– On the February 13, 2017 episode of Raw, Flair dropped the title to Bayley in the main event. She failed to regain the title in a rematch against Bayley at Fastlane on March 5 which marked her first singles pay-per-view loss after 16 straight singles victories, that’s an all-time record.
– Charlotte Flair was drafted to SmackDown brand on April 11, 2017, Flair as part of the Superstar Shake-up. On the November 14 episode, she defeated Natalya to win the SmackDown Women’s Title title in her hometown and thus becoming the first and only woman’s wrestler to win the Divas, NXT, Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championship.
– At SummerSlam 2018, Charlotte Flair, Carmella, and Becky Lynch competed in a triple threat match for the SmackDown Women’s Title. Flair pinned Lynch to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship for the second time in her career which made her the second woman in WWE history to hold seven women’s championships, alongside WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus.
– On March 26, 2019, episode of SmackDown, Flair defeated Asuka to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship for the third time and thus becoming the only woman in WWE history to have captured eight women’s championships.
– Withing two weeks at WrestleMania 35, Flair lost the championship in a Winner Takes All match for both her SmackDown and Ronda Rousey’s Raw Women’s Championships when Lynch pinned Rousey to win both titles. It also marked the first-ever All-women main event at the grandest stage of them all.
– The genetically superior athlete would soon regain the title at Money in the Bank 2019 where she pinned Lynch after interference by Lacey Evans and thus becoming a nine-time Women’s Champion. Bayley, who had won the Money in the Bank contract earlier that night, cashed-in on Flair and defeated her to end the reign at just 4 minutes and 52 seconds. It’s Flair’s shortest title reign of all time, and also the shortest for that title, respectively.
– On October 6, at Hell in a Cell pay-per-view, Charlotte Flair defeated Bayley to win her record fifth SmackDown Women’s Championship, her overall tenth women’s championship on WWE’s main roster. But five days later on SmackDown, Flair dropped the title back to Bayley.
– As part of the 2019 draft, Flair was drafted to the Raw brand. On January 26, 2020, at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Flair won the Women’s Royal Rumble match by lastly eliminating Shayna Baszler. She then opted to choose NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley for a title match at WrestleMania 36 which she eventually won. It marked the beginning of her second NXT Women’s title reign and her overall 12th women’s title in WWE that ended at At NXT TakeOver: In Your House, Flair lost the NXT Women’s Championship to Io Shirai in a triple threat match also involving Rhea Ripley.
– Charlotte Flair won RAW Women’s Championship 4 times, the SmackDown Women’s Championship 5 times, the NXT Championship 2 times, and the WWE Divas Championship 1 time making her the most decorated woman in WWE with 12 titles. Also, she became one of the two first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event in October 2016 (beside Sasha Banks). She’s one of three women to headline WrestleMania, WWE’s annual event, in April 2019 (alongside Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey). During her feud with Sasha Banks, they also competed in the first-ever Hell in a Cell match.
– Pro Wrestling Illustrated awarded her with the below-mentioned accolades,
Feud of the Year (2016) vs. Sasha Banks
Rookie of the Year (2014)
Woman of the Year (2016)
Ranked No. 1 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2016
Ranked No. 2 of the top 10 female wrestlers of the year in 2018
– Charlotte Flair appeared in the January 2016 issue of Muscle & Fitness Magazine. She ranked 29th out of 50 in the 2017 Sports Illustrated fittest woman athletes of the year. In June 2018, Flair appeared in the ESPN Body 10 magazine in bare body and thus became the first-of-its-kind in WWE.
– In 2017, Flair portrayed Heather Rockrear in Psych: The Movie. She then released Second Nature: The Legacy of Ric Flair and the Rise of Charlotte on September 19, 2017, co-written with her father and Brian Shields, author of the WWE Encyclopedia. She made her video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K17 who later appeared in WWE 2K18 and WWE 2K19.
– Charlotte Flair is one of those WWE Superstars who got arrested on September 5, 2008, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for assaulting a police officer after a fight involving her, her then-boyfriend, and her father. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail, which was suspended to supervised probation and a $200 fine.
– From May 2010 until February 2013, Flair was married to Riki Johnson. She allegedly left her husband for domestic violence. From 2013 to October 2015, she was married to Thomas Latimer, better known by his ring name Bram. She is currently has been in a relationship with fellow WWE wrestler Manuel Andrade Oropeza, better known as Andrade. The couple got engaged to be married on January 1, 2020.
– The Queen has multiple tattoos, including two hearts above her waistline, her first husband, Riki’s name below her waistline, a heart on her left wrist, a quote from the Bible on the left side of her torso, cross on the right side of her torso, and a quote on her right forearm. (a tribute to her late brother Reid)
– Charlotte Flair was present at ringside on the December 6, 2004 episode of Raw in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, where Lita and Trish Stratus competed in the second All-Women main event for the WWE Women’s Championship. 12 years later, on July 25, 2016, Flair and rival Sasha Banks would go on to repeat the history that marked only the third time a Women’s Title match had main-evented Raw. (Sources – Wikipedia)
