Charlotte Flair recently spoke with Brian Fritz for Sporting News; you can read a few excerpts below:
Charlotte comments on moving to Smackdown in the WWE Superstar Shakeup:
“I can’t speak for the other women on ‘Raw’ or ‘SmackDown’ but I know, for myself, personally, the minute I left ‘Raw’ Monday night I said to myself ‘SmackDown’ is the women’s division that you’re gonna want to be on. That’s my mindset. Yes, competition is in full effect because that’s kind of the point of having two brands.
“Obviously, I want both brands to do well but I’m just that competitive. I want the ‘SmackDown’ women to do extremely well and let’s see what we can do.”
Charlotte comments on reuniting with best friend Becky Lynch on Smackdown:
“In this line of work, you have a ton of friends and you’re all family but Becky was basically my rock. With the heel transition and then we ended up having the match at Royal Rumble (in 2016), we pretty much grew together as talent and came into our own. Then all of a sudden the draft happened. Not only am I excited to be back with my travel partner but to see how much we’ve grown as talent and to have the opportunity to face each other again as polished talent. We were just scratching the surface when we had that match at Royal Rumble and then we had the three-way (at WrestleMania 32 in Dallas) and then it was over.”
Charlotte reveals what went in to creating her look at Wrestlemania 33:
“My seamstress and I were really excited how it turned out but really the whole idea behind that robe was to give tribute to my dad’s career coming full circle in Orlando because if you look at a lot of old magazines, the layouts of all of his robes over the years take the peacock form,” Charlotte explained. “One of those 1980 magazines, one of the famous covers is my dad standing there with probably 15 robes and a peacock formation behind him. That’s where I got the idea.”
