Charlotte Flair
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Charlotte Flair is the benchmark name available when it comes to female professional wrestlers in or outside the WWE. Despite all the controversies and backlashes around her, WWE isn’t stopping to book her in the strongest way possible. She’s been the Smackdown Women’s Champion since the fall of 2021 and this ongoing reign has allowed her to break a huge record.

In her illustrious WWE career, Charlotte Flair has held every championship in the company aside from the NXT UK Women’s Championship. She is currently in her record seventh SmackDown Women’s Title reign via which she surpassed one of the pioneers in women’s wrestling – Trish Stratus.

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WWE Smackdown: Charlotte Flair Surpasses Legendary Trish Stratus’ Record 1

As of March 13, Charlotte Flair is topping the list of most combined days as WWE Women’s Champion, at over 822 days in the modern era of wrestling (Fabulous Moolah holds the original top position). Obviously, the second-generation athlete achieved the accolade by the maximum number of reigns on the female roster of the WWE. While she is considered to be a 13-time champion in the WWE, Trish is recognized as a 7-time champion.

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Charlotte Flair had 13 title reigns in WWE

Charlotte Flair had 26 title defenses across these 13 championship reigns while Trish still has the most number of title defenses, with the count being 36. The info was first released via a user on Reddit which shows that Becky Lynch is residing on the number three position in this list with a combined reign of 809+ days.

Becky is the current Raw Women’s Champion who is booked to defend her title against Bianca Belair at Wrestlemania 38. Charlotte Flair will defend her title on the same night against the 2022 Royal Rumble winner Ronda Rousey. As for the 4th and 5th position for the combined reign list, the spots respectively go to Bayley (594) and Beth Phoenix (570).

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Since Charlotte Flair had accomplished so much in her career, a lot of people have been wondering what could be next for her In the WWE. That is something that she doesn’t know herself. During an interview with Superstar Crossover, she mentioned how she only wants to make improvements for herself.

“I know, everyone keeps asking me that. But I don’t even look at it that way. I’m still someone that’s like, ‘man, how do I get better? Should I change up my robe, work on my promo skills?’ I am still that talent that has that chip on their shoulder, ‘what have I got to do to make it?’” (quotes courtesy Wrestling INC)

Arindam Pal

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