WWE Wrestlemania 39: Charlotte Flair’s Title Win Causes Change In Title Match Plans

Wrestlemania 39 is just a couple of months away in the calendar and plans targeting the show will gradually fall in place. The former Smackdown Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey was supposed to be participating in one of the marquee matches of the evening, possibly in the dream singles encounter with Becky Lynch but those plans have since been scrapped.

Charlotte Flair’s title win on Smackdown caused a change in plans for Wrestlemania 39, as well. According to the reports of Xero News, Triple H was the one to book the title swap. Being the head of the creative team, he was the one to book Charlotte to win the SmackDown Women’s Title.

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Triple H wanted to change predictable Wrestlemania card

The reason stated in the report was that most of the top matches for WrestleMania 39 got leaked (Flair vs. Bianca Belair for the RAW Women’s Championship and Rousey vs. Lynch for Smackdown Women’s Championship). To ensure that things don’t become predictable, he wanted to shake things up heading into the Show of Shows,

“Triple H was the one who decided on Charlotte dethroning Rousey on Smackdown as he wanted to shake up the WrestleMania plans as everything had been getting leaked online and WWE had taken notice.”

Flair won the gold en route to Wrestlemania 39 on Smackdown

With Flair being the current champion, she’s expected to head into Wrestlemania 39 as the reigning Smackdown Women’s Champion while Bianca Belair should go into the event as the Raw Women’s Champion. The earlier speculated Flair vs. Belair shouldn’t be intact unless WWE decides to unify the Raw and Smackdown Women’s Championships like the men’s division WWE and Universal Championships.

On the December 30 edition of SmackDown, Charlotte Flair made her impending return to the blue brand with a new theme, and new gear, to reclaim the SmackDown Women’s Championship from Ronda Rousey and be a part of the Road to Wrestlemania 39. This was a sweet redemption for Flair as Rousey wrenched an armbar on her through a steel chair to force her to say I Quit at Wrestlemania Backlash.

This vengeful mind was also revealed by Flair in a backstage interview following her title match win on Smackdown,

“I don’t know if she thought I was going to let the last match, the ‘I Quit’ Match, go. When I went home, I thought to myself, ‘I’m a lot of things to a lot of different people, but the one thing I’m not is I’m not a quitter.’

I just waited until the right opportunity, the right time, and I’m 14-time. It’s crazy.”