WWE SmackDown star and the current WWE SmackDown Women’s champion Charlotte Flair who is also a 14 times WWE Women’s champion recently talked about her upcoming championship match with Rhea Ripley and discussed the creative aspects about it.
Charlotte Flair dropped this SmackDown Women’s Championship to Ronda Rousey at the WrestleMania Backlash paper view event last year and remained out of action for over eight months. See regained the SmackDown Women’s Championship on the night of her return on Friday Night Smackdown and ended her story with Ronda Rousey.
Charlotte Flair Discusses Her WrestleMania 39 Match With Rhea Ripley And Its Creative Aspects
Rhea Ripley on the other hand had an excellent 2022 as she became quite famous after joining the Judgement Day faction. She started 2023 with a bang as she went on to win the Women’s Royal Rumble match and she decided to challenge Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 39
This would not be the first time these two women are going to face each other. In all the previous encounters, Charlotte came out as the stronger force. They already had a match at WrestleMania 36 for the WWE NXT Women’s Championship which was won by Charlotte. After making her male roster debut, Rhea had a feud with Charlotte which she lost again. Hopefully, this time Rhea comes out stronger.
Charlotte Flair who is also a 14 times WWE Women’s champion recently spoke to Chris Boyle of The Daytona Beach News-Journal where she talked about her upcoming championship match with Rhea Ripley and discussed the creative aspects about it. She said;
“First, let’s start with the main event (aspect), I always find it so odd when people say, ‘Why does Charlotte always want to main-event?’ Isn’t that what you want as a performer? If you’re a football team, you want to be at the Super Bowl, right? I don’t understand the criticism over that. Why wouldn’t you want to be a champion?
“With Rhea, we’re not starting from scratch. We have so much history. We have our first face-off Friday. I’m not planning anything in my head creatively because I want to feel the energy. I want to feel what the audience thinks of how far she’s come, and where I’m at now. Will it be a different vibe? Are they going to want to see her beat me, or do they know she’s not ready? I have to feel it out there, depending on my mind, what direction to go.”
“At the same time, I feel how Rhea feels will be much different. I beat her for the NXT title, I beat her for the Raw title. That’s something, in her heart: “I know I can beat Charlotte. I have to beat Charlotte.” I feel like she has something to prove to herself. … And we naturally have such great chemistry. I know she’s going to bring it, and she knows I’m going to bring it.”
H/T and transcription – WrestlingHeadlines.com