Charlotte Flair Discloses Dislike For Historic WrestleMania 35 Main Event

Charlotte Flair expressed dislike for her WrestleMania 35 Triple Threat Match, citing dissatisfaction with the story and ending, despite Ronda Rousey enjoying it.
Flair credited Rousey for enabling the historic women’s WrestleMania main event, emphasizing her star power, credibility, and mainstream appeal as key factors.
The match’s buildup involved Becky Lynch’s injury and Flair replacing her at Survivor Series 2018, leading to the eventual convergence of their storylines at WrestleMania 35.

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During a recent appearance on the Games with Names podcast, Charlotte Flair disclosed that she holds a negative view of her historic Triple Threat Match from WrestleMania 35, despite one of her opponents feeling differently about the contest.

“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,” Flair stated.
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The match was the first time women headlined a WrestleMania, a landmark achievement Flair believes would not have been possible without the involvement of Ronda Rousey. Flair credited the former UFC champion for bringing a level of legitimacy and a wider audience to the women’s division at the time.

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“We would have not main evented WrestleMania had it not been for Ronda (Rousey). Hands down,” Flair explained. “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.”
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Flair also addressed criticism leveled at Rousey’s in-ring abilities, countering a point made by an unnamed individual. She argued that Rousey’s aura and mainstream appeal were more critical than her technical wrestling skills for the role she played.

“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,” Flair added. “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.”

The path to the WrestleMania 35 main event, which saw Becky Lynch win both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships, began months earlier. An injury to Lynch, sustained from a punch by Nia Jax, forced her out of a planned match against Rousey at Survivor Series 2018. Flair was selected as her replacement, setting the stage for the three performers’ storylines to converge.