Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch heated exchange backstage

[The Rick Jericho]

Immediately following their segment on SmackDown, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair are reported to have had a heated exchange.

In a report from Mike Johnson of PWinsider.com, the site reports that Flair had voiced her concerns earlier in the day about the Championship Exchange segment and not wanting her or the title reign to look weak.

During the in-ring segment, Flair went to hand the title to Lynch but pulled it away. As Lynch tried to grab it from Flair, the belt landed on the mat.

Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT added a few details including Flair attempting a “cat and mouse game” with the belt and a timing error leading to the belt falling.

Sonya Deville told Flair to pick it up, which she did and handed it to Deville. Lynch responded by throwing her title at Flair rather than handing it to Deville and that title also landed on the mat with Flair picking it up as well.

The rest of the segment saw Sasha Banks interrupting the two and Lynch making her exit before the physicality between Banks and Flair to end the show.

On WWE’s YouTube channel, the segment doesn’t include the title swap or the belts falling on the mat and begins with Banks’ interruption.

The report adds that the two had heated words backstage over the way the segment played out.

The site noted that while the confrontation was heated, it never got physical between Flair and Lynch.

[Legion]

I just assumed they were building to a match between them for Survivor Series. <shrugs>

[Totorob101]

Honestly don't care as I'm sick of the horsewomen dominating all and everything in the women's division,you have so many talented women just wasting away in catering or 2 minute squashes while we keep getting the same old faces in the title scene month after month.

[Deleted]

Sometimes friends argue and fight, so I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. I assume they're still friends, anyway.

[Perd]

That’s all these goddamn belt exchanges are good for. It’s why I switched to suspenders. Belt exchanges have just cost me too many friendships:

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Last night's main event segment featuring Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair went awry, to say the least.

Fightful learned shortly after the show that something didn't go according to plan, and PWInsider reported that Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair had a heated argument backstage after the segment over Charlotte "making Becky Lynch look bad" by throwing down the title when it wasn't called for in the script.

Fightful has heard more details on the situation. The original script actually called for Becky Lynch to grab the title away from Charlotte Flair and brag about being "Becky Two Belts" before Sonya Deville would order her to hand her title to Charlotte. We're told Charlotte Flair didn't agree this was the best course of action, but was told to stay the course.

However, we've heard that most everyone had already been in agreement the segment was going to be an awkward.

After the segment concluded, there was a shouting match backstage, and we're told that Charlotte had stated that dropping the title was accidental. Fightful has also been told that Charlotte Flair was asked to leave the venue before Becky Lynch's dark match concluded as to avoid further confrontation and let things cool off.

Much of the roster, staff and officials had already left for the evening, as there was a heavy travel week. We'll work to find out more.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

It's being discussed in the belt swap thread, but I agree with those who think this is an elaborate worked shoot.

[The Rick Jericho]

Oct 23, 2021 10:38:35 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

It's being discussed in the belt swap thread, but I agree with those who think this is an elaborate worked shoot.

So they start off as "Bret" and "Shawn" and well.....

The end result is one of them is outta the company. I can see Charlotte definitely outta there.

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Oct 23, 2021 10:54:05 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Oct 23, 2021 10:38:35 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

It's being discussed in the belt swap thread, but I agree with those who think this is an elaborate worked shoot.

So they start off as "Bret" and "Shawn" and well.....

The end result is one of them is outta the company. I can see Charlotte definitely outta there.

Charlotte, yes, but Becky's going to be there for the rest of her career IMO. It's funny because like 5 years ago I would've thought the opposite.

[The Creepo Man]

Oct 23, 2021 10:54:05 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Oct 23, 2021 10:38:35 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

It's being discussed in the belt swap thread, but I agree with those who think this is an elaborate worked shoot.

So they start off as "Bret" and "Shawn" and well.....

The end result is one of them is outta the company. I can see Charlotte definitely outta there.

So if she were to leave and win four AEW Women’s championships (her count is 13?), she would still break the female equivalent of her father’s record, yet WWE won’t recognize it because she wrestles for the enemy, correct?

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I like to imagine Seth Rollins hiding in the janitor's closet with Roux while this was going on to avoid being brought into it.

[Dub H]

Maybe its a plan to distract peopl from how stupid a belt exchange is

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Oct 23, 2021 11:20:26 GMT -5 Dub H said:

Maybe its a plan to distract peopl from how stupid a belt exchange is

Man, if only there was a way they could've gotten the titles off Charlotte and Becky without doing one...

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Becky is genuinely over and they keep bogging her down with meta heat and bizarro worked shoot shit like the Ronda stuff and it's just the worst.

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

The way Andrade’s tweeting..added with everything else has me thinking Andrade is the “Mr. Steal-Yo-Girl” to Vince. People have been calling it for ages here but dang. It could happen.

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Oct 23, 2021 11:30:53 GMT -5 Fade is a CodyCryBaby said:

The way Andrade’s tweeting..added with everything else has me thinking Andrade is the “Mr. Steal-Yo-Girl” to Vince. People have been calling it for ages here but dang. It could happen.

Vince: "Goddammit, why don't we have a franchise tag like the NFL!"

[Natural Born Farmer]

This is not the sort of heated exchange backstage I'd like to see from these two.

[paywindah]

Just want Charlotte to go to AEW like she wants to only to have the AEW fans absolutely hate her as she holds the AEW women's division hostage for years.

[Deleted]

Really hope she just ups and leaves because it will only be a long welcomed beneficial change to finally get rid of her ,like chopping off your infected arm to save the rest of your body.

[Rican]

People who have talked about Charlotte like she’s satan for years suddenly thinking she’s awesome when she goes elsewhere is gonna be so funny