Charlotte Flair taking another hiatus

[gl83]

-Charlotte Flair lost the WWE SmackDown Women’s Title at WrestleMania 39 (Saturday) to Rhea Ripley in a highly praised match, and now she will be taking some time off from the company.

Coming out of the show, there was speculation that Flair could be taking time off to do a bodybuilding competition this summer. She was shredded for the bout. Flair had talked about doing a competition heading into WrestleMania with ESPN.

Flair mentioned trying to figure out how it would work with her training while on the road.

Pwinsider Elite reports Flair will be taking time off from WWE as the former Women’s Champion told the company about the break over WrestleMania weekend.

It was noted that the decision to have Ripley win the title was made before Flair told the company of her plans, and she isn’t expected to appear on Friday Night SmackDown this week.

The report added that “she was telling those backstage that she and husband Andrade were going to travel.”

It’s unclear how long the hiatus will be for. Flair missed the majority of 2022 after taking time off in May to get married and then had dental issues. She returned on the December 30th edition of SmackDown.




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[gl83]

This would explain the stare down between Raquel and Rhea last night. Raquel will be Rhea’s 1st challenger for her newly-won Smackdown Women’s title.

[Defrebel - White Pony]

Brood Charlotte

[salz4life]

The dedication it takes to do these bodybuilder competitions.... good luck to her!

[Citizen Grimm]

Honestly, good for Charlotte.

I think she'll do well at the bodybuilder competitions. Plus, she's done enough stuff in WWE to be gone for a long time now. She can essentially be a part-timer now, showing up here and there to have awesome matches.

[asuka007]

Charlotte has nothing left to prove in WWE. Let her do some outside stuff.

Interesting that multiple women’s wrestlers have been trying out bodybuilding recently. Peyton Royce/Cassie Lee did one awhile back. Bianca did one recently. Jordynne Grace just won one I believe. And now Charlotte.

[mistery]

ICOPRO is back, baby!!!!

On a serious note, this makes Bianca going over Asuka a lot more baffling, as now she doesn't have anyone at all to feud with, unless they suddenly decide to reheat Asuka and have her go over Bianca. Vince has to build up a heel to feud with her now, because whoops. And I don't think he will.

[asuka007]

They were supposed to start building a challenger last night apparently. Until they scrapped both matches last minute.

[grungesmurf]

👋

[gl83]

Apr 4, 2023 12:25:31 GMT -5 asuka007 said:

They were supposed to start building a challenger last night apparently. Until they scrapped both matches last minute.

I think that was for Bianca's Raw Women's title

[J is Justice]

Comes back, has a great match, leaves. That's fine with me.

[theironyuppie]

Apr 4, 2023 12:10:47 GMT -5 gl83 said:

This would explain the stare down between Raquel and Rhea last night. Raquel will be Rhea’s 1st challenger for her newly-won Smackdown Women’s title.

They've already been working house show matches (Rhea does really well at getting the crowds behind Raquel), so it'd make sense.

[Dave the Dave]

She took over that Brock schedule. Made his ass show up on RAW

[Pgarodactyl]

Charlotte will be gone long enough for people to stop remarking on how they don't miss her on the show.

As soon as that happens, she'll be back thinking she's missed. Back for another title run. Back for our souls.

[dbrussel]

She coming for the 15th in a few months then.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Charlotte definitely feels like she's got one foot out the door to me. You can pretty easily tell when she cares and when she doesn't, and the latter's a lot more common especially of late, and she seems to just barely be around at this point.

[Ryushinku]

Ended a bleh Ronda reign, put over Rhea big, takes a break. No notes.

[XIII]

I’m assuming that she’s going to compete in the Fitness or Figure division as she has the right frame for that. She doesn’t have the lower body development for Wellness division, and in no world can she compete in Physique or the Open division unless she’s about to take Poppa Pump levels of juice in the next 3 months or so.

She’ll probably do well actually.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I wish I had her PTO plan.

[Doo Doo is Worse Than WCW 2000]

I wonder if she still has acting aspirations, too.