Charlotte Flair Recalls Controversial Wrestlemania 41 Faceoff With Tiffany Stratton That 'rocked' Her

Charlotte Flair earned a changeable astatine Tiffany Stratton’s WWE Women’s Championship astatine WrestleMania 41 erstwhile she made her illustrious return to nan Royal Rumble and won it.

The somesthesia betwixt nan 2 competitors was turned up a notch connected nan roadworthy to WrestleMania. One of nan past faceoffs betwixt Flair and Stratton sewage individual erstwhile nan 2 brought up their real-life relationships into nan halfway of nan ring.

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Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton speak during SmackDown astatine Allstate Arena connected April 4, 2025 successful Rosemont, Illinois. (Heather McLaughlin/WWE via Getty Images)

As nan back-and-forth began to fizzle retired connected nan April 4 section of "Friday Night SmackDown," Stratton went difficult saying that aft WrestleMania Flair was going to beryllium conscionable arsenic "alone" wrong of nan ringing arsenic she was connected nan extracurricular and suggested she was "0-3" successful her emotion life — an evident reference to nan divorces she’d gone through. Not to mention that Flair was only months removed from her astir caller divorcement from chap pro wrestler Andrade.

The infinitesimal was wide talked astir and analyzed successful nan days starring up to their WrestleMania 41 match, which saw Stratton retaining nan title. The 2 person appeared together scantly since then.

On Tuesday, Flair published a portion successful The Players’ Tribune recalling nan arguable moment. She suggested nan flimsy near a people connected her.

"And I deliberation successful those times erstwhile group person seen maine look rattled by nan booing, those are conscionable nan times erstwhile I’ve felt for illustration — astatine slightest for a infinitesimal — nan boos aren’t for Charlotte. They’re for Ashley," she wrote referencing her existent name, Ashley Fliehr. "They’re for me. They’re because of nan measurement I look. Or because of nan power I’m giving disconnected arsenic a woman. Or because of existent trauma I’ve gone done successful existent life.

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Apr 2, 2022; Arlington, TX, USA; Charlotte Flair enters nan arena during nan Smackdown Women’s Championship lucifer astatine WrestleMania astatine AT&T Stadium. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

"So erstwhile it sewage mentioned successful Chicago that I person an ‘0–3 grounds astatine marriages’ … yeah, it rocked maine legit. I’m not excessively proud to show you that. I don’t request everyone reasoning I’m playing 5-D chess each of nan time. My guidance to that statement was arsenic genuine arsenic it gets. Because — and possibly this makes maine naive — successful my head?? Charlotte hasn’t been divorced. So I wasn’t expecting it to travel up successful that promo….. and past each of a abrupt I had an full arena cheering arsenic I sewage mocked for thing that was (and frankly still is) devastating to me."

Flair admitted that nan individual worldly hits harder than immoderate of nan injuries aliases bumps and bruises that she’s attained complete her WWE career.

Flair is simply a 14-time women’s champion connected nan WWE main roster. She’s besides 1 of only a fewer who person won nan NXT Women’s Championship aggregate times.

WWE wrestler Ric Flair (L) and WWE Diva Charlotte be nan 2016 ESPYS astatine Microsoft Theater connected July 13, 2016 successful Los Angeles, California.   (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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She will person her sights group connected tag-team golden connected Sunday erstwhile she teams up pinch Alexa Bliss successful a fatal four-way tag-team lucifer to return nan tag belts disconnected of Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez astatine WWE Evolution 2.

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