Charlotte Flair believes there is a bigger picture behind her current WWE run alongside Alexa Bliss.
During a discussion with Dave LaGreca of Busted Open on WWE Radio via SiriusXM (see video below), Flair discussed her current position in WWE and acknowledged that she still views herself as someone who should be presented at the top of the women’s division.
“Do I agree that I should be a main attraction? Yes. Do I think that I should be looked at and marketed like that champion that you’re thinking? Yes,” Flair said.
At the same time, Flair believes her tag team partnership with Bliss is allowing her to show different sides of herself as a performer.
“But I think being in this tag, whether it’s slow or not for some of my fans, I think there is a bigger picture, and that I’m going to keep working towards, keep fighting for that,” Flair said. “So, in me being able to be comedic with Lexi or in the tag or working with so many different characters, and I don’t want to say underdog, but I’m kind of like, am I kind of like an underdog right now? A little bit.”
Flair said the run has also given her an opportunity to show more vulnerability rather than always being positioned as the dominant champion fans have become accustomed to seeing.
“But I think it’s just showing that vulnerability and showing that, like, hey, I don’t need to have a main… Like, I’m interesting. And I think people just got, like, how do you relate to being great? But they just didn’t realize, like, what it took and the sacrifice to, like, hey, I’m a character, but I was actually really good at being bad, and it was almost too good at being bad.”
While Flair has primarily been aligned with Bliss, she has remained involved in the WWE women’s title picture. She recently competed in the Interim WWE Women’s Championship match at SummerSlam and has also formed an alliance with Bliss and Tatum Paxley on SmackDown.
Elsewhere during the interview, Flair reflected on her evolution over the past year and argued that it has been the best and most versatile stretch of her career.
“That I always, or that I need to keep showing up, because I do. I wake up in the morning and go, ‘I’m the greatest.’ Yes. But I don’t rest on just people like you saying it.
“Like, I really want to feel and embody what it means to be the greatest and showing up, and that’s still evolving because I truly believe this was, like, the best year of my career, and I’ve never been more versatile,” Flair said. “So I’m like, if I can do that in a year that everyone had kind of, I felt, written me off, imagine what I can do in five years.”
