Charlotte Flair Recalls Special Moment With Mercedes Mone And Becky Lynch Before WrestleMania 32 Match

Charlotte shares how the trio shared a special moment before their bout.

At WrestleMania 32, WWE would officially retire the WWE Divas Championship in favor of the return of a WWE Women’s Championship. Charlotte Flair, who was Divas Champion at the time, would face off with Mercedes Mone and Becky Lynch at the event.

In a new Players Tribune article, Charlotte Flair looked back on several moments throughout her life, including WrestleMania 32. Flair shared that her, Lynch and Mercedes shared a silent moment together ahead of their match.

“I have this memory…… It’s about nine years ago. It’s WrestleMania 32, in 2016, at a sold-out AT&T Stadium in Dallas. It’s me vs. Becky vs. Mercedes in a triple-threat match. To crown the first-ever WWE women’s champion. I feel like this weird thing happens when you look back on history, where in retrospect stuff feels inevitable — when it actually really f***ing wasn’t. And that’s kind of what I think happens now with 32, and the way people remember our match. It’s part of WWE history. It’s so iconic. So it’s like, OF COURSE we killed it. OF COURSE we stole the show, and outwrestled every man on that card. OF COURSE it was the first of many women’s classics at WrestleMania. Except……. NOT of course????? No, for real: We could have just sucked!!! I really do wonder that sometimes: What if we’d had a bad match that night? Who knows when — who knows IF! — the women would have been given another shot. Like, maybe everything would be different now. And it’s so funny, because if I told you “we knew” how high the stakes were in that moment, obviously I’d be lying. We were way too young, way too excited, and WAY too nervous to be thinking outside of ourselves. But at the same time … I swear: Deep down, on some level, some part of us knew. I remember before we went out there for our entrances, in those last few seconds when we were in Gorilla together, the three of us locked arms in this little huddle. And I don’t even really think we said anything to each other. Not out loud, anyway. We just sort of looked at each other….. me to Becky, Becky to Mercedes, Mercedes back to me…… and we smiled. And it was like: Who knows. Then probably a half hour later, we looked at each other and smiled again. But this time it was: We did it.”

In the end, Flair would walk away with the victory after assistance from her father Ric.

Flair also recently commented on her bout with Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41. You can read more about that here.