Flair revisits WrestleMania 35.
The latest guest to join Julian Edelman on his Games with Names podcast was Charlotte Flair. They were discussing Survivor Series 2018 and that leading up to the WrestleMania 35 main event Triple Threat featuring Flair, Ronda Rousey, and Becky Lynch.
Flair shared her opinion that women being the final match at a WrestleMania will never happen again unless the event goes back to being one night. She went on to add that the main event at WrestleMania 35 would not have happened without Rousey.
“And it was the main event of only one night. Now we have two nights… So it’s a big deal. Now you have two nights, two different opportunities, so, that being the main event of one night was huge, and it’ll never happen again, unless we go to one night.
We would have not main evented WrestleMania had it not been for Ronda (Rousey). Hands down. When she wanted to kind of join what we had already started to build but her star power, her credibility, her outside influence, the audience that she brought. Kudos to her. I know that, you know, someone said in her book that she couldn’t wrestle but at the end of the day, it really didn’t matter. She was Ronda and she didn’t need to. She had such an aura to her and really did figure it out and brought that much to the table so, I thank her for what she did for us, because, she didn’t have to come wrestle. She’d already done it all and it was real. So she just added that legitimacy to what we were trying to do that we didn’t have and she caught on.”
Further speaking about the match, Flair stated that she hates it, but Rousey loves it. Although Flair is not a fan of the match, she liked the story that led up to it.
“I hated our ‘Mania (35) match. She (Ronda Rousey) liked it, I hated it… The ending. It’s all about the story. The match… But the story. The story was insane.”
The last time women main-evented WrestleMania was when Mercedes Moné and Bianca Belair closed WrestleMania 37 night one.
Flair was in action on the 6/13 WWE SmackDown in a Queen of the Ring tournament match. To read the result of that bout, click here.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Games with Names with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
