Subhojeet Mukherjee on June 17, 2022
One of the constants in WWE seems to be fans criticizing Charlotte Flair for constantly getting title opportunities and winning titles. WWE pushed Flair to the moon on numerous occasions and fans simply got sick of it. Ric Flair feels WWE actually held back his daughter.
Charlotte Flair has accomplished a lot since making her debut in WWE at the age of 26. She is a multi-time women’s champion and it is likely she will win more titles in the future.
While speaking on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast, Ric Flair talked about how WWE Superstars read scripts nowadays. Flair also stated that he felt Charlotte Flair is being held back in WWE.
“You can tell a mile away whether the kids feel it or not. It’s a lot of pressure to read something that you don’t naturally feel in your heart. That’s a big difference. I mean, you could tell the guys that they really take off because they’re taking what they’ve been handed to memorize and then they put some emotion into it,” Ric began.
“But that’s just talking generically today. That doesn’t sell tickets. When The Rock comes back and wrestles Roman, that’ll sell tickets. When Steve Austin came back, that sold tickets. It’s just a different timeframe.”
“The talent is great, make no mistake, there’s some great wrestlers, Orton, my daughter, Sasha Banks, Styles, like there’s a list of great, probably 10 between the two companies. But the events sell themselves now as much as the wrestlers do. I don’t think they turn them loose enough. I know that they want to make sure they get the right advertisers. Everybody has to be happy.”
“It’s a whole different world, but I still love it. I just feel like the guys that are really great like Randy and my daughter are held back because they (WWE) don’t want them to go that far. They don’t want anybody to become The Rock again that’s going to walk off. They don’t want somebody like Steve that could say, ‘I don’t want to do it.’ Back in the day, Hulk could say yes or no. He had that kind of power. I don’t know if that’s healthy, but Vince won’t let that happen again.”
Charlotte Flair has been absent since WrestleMania Backlash, where she dropped the Smackdown Women’s Title to Ronda Rousey. Flair isn’t expected to be back for a while either. We’ll have to see when Flair will return to WWE television.
h/t to WrestlingNews.co
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June 17, 2022 11:41 am
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