Charlotte Flair Underscores the ‘Depressing’ Reality of Women as Compared to Men in the Wrestling Industry

There’s not even a shadow of doubt that ‘The Genetically Superior Athlete’ wrote her heart out in the aforementioned column. Having shared the locker room with a ton of women who’ve come and gone by, Flair is privy to the ins and outs of what goes on behind those curtains. The issue that she has highlighted is being backed by the majority of the fans, as evident by the comments all over social media.

Charlotte Flair urges fans to give Ronda Rousey credit for her WWE endeavors

Ronda Rousey bowed out of WWE on not the best terms. However, in her heyday, she had some trailblazing moments and career-defining feuds, like the one with Charlotte Flair. They faced off against each other on five different occasions, with three one-on-one matches in the mix.

However, the most notable of those will forever be the main event of WrestleMania 35, where Rousey, Flair, and Becky Lynch collided in a triple-threat showdown. Flair recently claimed that their match wouldn’t have closed out WrestleMania if it wasn’t for Rousey.

In her Players’ Tribune write-up, ‘The Queen’ didn’t miss out on crediting ‘The Baddest Woman on the Planet’ for putting women in the main event of WWE’s greatest spectacle. Flair mentioned Rousey’s UFC stardom was the game changer for the women, who headlined multiple PPVs that sold over a million buys, a feat that remains unbroken in women’s MMA.

The UFC legend carried it over to WWE after joining the promotion in 2018. She broke new ground when Rousey became the first woman to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in the same year.

Flair noted how the US women’s soccer team and pro athletes like Serena Williams being draws helped the women get their due recognition in sports as a whole. However, when it comes to WWE looking at women as potential WrestleMania main eventers, Rousey played a pivotal role in that, regurgitated the 14-time women’s champion.

Charlotte Flair was rattled after infamous segment with Tiffany Stratton

After coming back from a lengthy injury layoff, Charlotte Flair won the 30-woman Royal Rumble match to seal her WrestleMania fate. The decision had already enraged fans, so they started treating Flair as the heel when she was, at the time, a babyface. ‘The Queen’ would go on to choose Tiffany Stratton as the champion she wanted to wrestle at ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All.’

Their feud wasn’t moving anyone until their infamous shoot-like promo segment in Chicago. They met on SmackDown, and their face-off went completely off the rails. Things started going haywire when Stratton joked about Flair’s three-time divorcee past.

‘The Queen’ addressed that part in her Players’ Tribune note by saying that the line rocked her. She wasn’t expecting it to come up during a scripted promo designed to advance her feud with ‘The Buff Barbie.’ Flair obviously wasn’t proud of an entire arena mocking her for something that still was devastating to her.