Charlotte Flair believes her tag team partnership with Alexa Bliss is helping show a more vulnerable and relatable side of her character, even if some fans would rather see her back in WWE’s main-event championship picture.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Flair acknowledged that she still views herself as one of WWE’s major attractions and believes she should be presented accordingly. “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.”
However, Flair does not see her current partnership with Bliss as standing in the way of that goal. Instead, she believes there is a bigger picture behind what she is doing. “I think being in this tag, whether it’s slow or not for some of my fans, I think there is a bigger picture that I’m going to keep working towards. Keep fighting for that.”
The partnership has also allowed Flair to explore aspects of her personality that audiences have rarely seen during a career largely built around championships, dominance and portraying herself as superior to her opponents. “In me being able to be comedic with Lexi [Alexa] 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?”
Flair believes showing that vulnerability is important, particularly after spending so much of her WWE career positioned at or near the top of the women’s division. “I think it’s just showing that vulnerability and showing that, like, hey, I don’t need to have a main [event]. Like, I’m interesting.”
She also suggested that her previous character may have worked almost too effectively. Flair has frequently played an arrogant heel built around her accomplishments, ability and status as one of WWE’s most decorated women. “I think people just got, like, how do you relate to being great?”
According to Flair, that presentation sometimes prevented audiences from seeing the work and sacrifices behind her success. “They just didn’t realize, like, what it took and the sacrifice.”
Flair believes part of the difficulty was that she became so convincing in the role WWE had given her. “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 still wants to be treated as a championship-level attraction, she sees her work alongside Bliss as an opportunity to broaden her character rather than simply return immediately to the role audiences have seen from her for years.
