Charlotte Flair believes her WWE WrestleMania 32 match with Becky Lynch and Mercedes Moné changed women’s wrestling forever.
She recently wrote an article for The Players’ Tribune, where she looked back on that historic triple threat match at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. The match that crowned Flair as the first-ever WWE Women’s Champion.
Flair shared a memory from that night in 2016. She wrote, “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????? “
Charlotte Flair admits the stakes for WWE WrestleMania 32 match were higher
Looking back, Charlotte Flair realizes how much was on the line for women’s wrestling that night in Dallas.
“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.”
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