So today we’ll be taking a look at some stories with Charlotte Flair, Vince McMahon,
and more
For today’s question of the day: who are you enjoying more as champion?
Charlotte Flair or Becky Lynch?
Let’s get into this story with Charlotte Flair
This whole situation dates back to July’s Money In The Bank pay-per-view
It was the second night of the live fans being back, plus it was a pay-per-view event after
all, so everyone was excited
But that excitement from the crowd did turn into some disrespect towards the start of
the WWE Raw women’s title match
It was Rhea Ripley vs Charlotte Flair for the Raw women’s title, but the before the
match could even start, the entire crowd was chanting ‘we want Becky’
Charlotte Flair immediately reacted to the Becky chants by flipping off the entire crowd.
It was of course an unscripted moment, so WWE cameras weren’t ready for that and the
screen cut to black as soon as Charlotte’s middle finger went up
However, several minutes after chanting for Becky Lynch, the crowd was into the match
and was chanting ‘this is awesome’ for Charlotte and Rhea
Charlotte Flair recently appeared on Oral Sessions and was asked for the reasoning behind
flipping off the live fans
Charlotte had a great explanation and had this to say:
“After the match, I was walking to Gorilla and was like, ‘Ah, yeah.
I gave them the bird.
Am I going to get in trouble?’
Hear me out: I’ve got Rhea Ripley -first big pay-per-view with me.
I get it; everyone’s excited to have Becky Lynch back.
I’m excited to have Becky back.
But you guys went from chanting ‘Becky’ to ‘This is awesome.’
“If you know what I’m capable of, show the respect upfront.
I don’t know; I’m usually so cookie-cutter, black and white, happy Monday, happy Tuesday,
but in that moment, I just felt it.
I was like, ‘let me steal the show with Rhea Ripley.’
I know that she’s that good.
Don’t disrespect her.
I’m used to it.
Like, I can take the beating”
So Charlotte’s explanation makes a lot of sense.
That was just the first thing that came to her mind, she felt it, and she put it out
there by flipping them off
Like Charlotte said, everyone was excited, some people thought Becky would return at
Money In The Bank, so yeah, there was a lot of excitement in the air and the crowd probably
didn’t mean no disrespect, but that’s just how that chant translated in that exact
moment
Young new champion in Rhea Ripley going up against an established star like Charlotte
Flair is about to be under way and you’re chanting for someone who’s at home
That just comes off as being disrespectful to the two competitors that are in the ring
Basically telling them that we don’t care about either of you, we want Becky Lynch
And that’s where that frustration came in for Charlotte because she’s there thinking
to herself ‘the match hasn’t even started yet, give us a chance’
And before you knew it, just a few minutes later, the crowd was pulled into the match,
chanting ‘this is awesome’
So that was Charlotte’s reasoning for the throwing up the middle finger.
Like Charlotte said, she’s used to taking the beating from the fans, but she wasn’t
going to tolerate the disrespect towards Rhea Ripley
Everything seems to be going well though for Charlotte and Becky, they both now sit on
top of their brands as the champions
If they can both hold onto their titles until November, that means they’ll definitely
face off against each other at the upcoming Survivor Series event
As far as things go with Charlotte Flair over on raw, she has former champion Nikki Cross
coming after her, Rhea Ripley still hanging around the title picture, and it appears that
Alexa Bliss has entered the title picture now as well
However, there is some controversy here because after starting alexa Bliss vs Charlotte Flair
on the august 23rd edition of Raw, it appears that WWE had changed their mind and cancelled
that story
WWE ignored the interaction that alexa and Charlotte had, treating it like it never happened,
and Charlotte suffered a loss to Nia Jax instead
So it appears that we are now going with Nia Jax vs Charlotte Flair for the Raw women’s
title
Maybe that story will be good, they obviously have history together, but fans are a bit
bummed out because they literally showed us the start of Alexa vs Charlotte, then 7 days
later they say “nah, forget it”, cancel the story and act like that never happened
If you weren’t sure on the story then we start it?
Why introduce it?
Then on top of cancelling the Alexa vs Charlotte, Alexa Bliss is also left completely off Raw,
they had nothing for her to do this week since they cancelled that story with Charlotte
One of the hottest characters, hottest merchandise movers, completely left off the show with
nothing to do…we’ve seen that sort of situation play out plenty of times over the
years especially with someone like Bray Wyatt
A hot character, merchandise flying off the shelves, yet The Fiend’s direction and story
was always a bit messy
Fans tweeted at Alexa about her raw absence, asking her where she was at.
Was she not cleared?
Is she hurt?
Is she sick?
Well Alexa responded to some of the fans and said that she’s completely fine and doesn’t
know why she was left off Raw
Which really leads us with one possible explanation for her Raw absence and that’s “creative
issues”
They cancelled a huge story and had no plans for a top star like Alexa Bliss, that’s
extremely worrisome
But if they changed their mind on Alexa entering the title picture then maybe it’s the right
time to have Alexa and Nikki go at it?
They’ve met a handful of times the last year or so, but never truly had a full blown
feud with each other, so maybe that’s a good story for Alexa to have until they revert
back to that story with Charlotte
It’s a non-title feud that will actually have substance and history behind it, so maybe
that’s an option
But Alexa is now left with no story at all, so maybe she starts picking on someone new
that Charlotte story appears to be scrapped
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Vince McMahon was also in the headlines this week for two big stories
The first story is how Vince McMahon personally reached out to a former WWE superstar about
a return to WWE
this superstar was Eva Marie
Eva Marie recently appeared on Oral Sessions and the Out of Character podcast this week,
and opened up about how her WWE return happened
Eva Marie revealed that she and Vince McMahon would stay in close contact through email
She would reach out every so often, let him know what she was doing and what she as up
to, and then one day Vince McMahon brought up the idea of her returning to WWE and the
conversation started to grow after Vince’s suggestions
Eva Marie returned to WWE in mid 2021 after 5 years away from the company
She returned with the introduction of Piper, they had a whole story with Alexa Bliss, and
have a split-up since then
So we’ll have to see how that breakup story continues to unfold
The other story involving Vince McMahon was with Keith Lee
Keith Lee has been on the main roster for just over the year and it’s been a real
bumpy year so far
He came onto the main roster on fire from what he was doing on NXT, he pinned Randy
Orton, and his future looked extremely bright
But then they started playing with his theme music, changing his ring gear every week,
and the direction started to quickly slip
He did find his way into the WWE title picture in early 2021, but got severely sick after
that and missed several months of action
He then returned on Raw a few weeks ago to confront Bobby Lashley, everyone thought that
maybe Keith Lee could’ve been Lashley’s opponent for Summerslam, but he ends up losing
that match and then losing a few more matches on Raw before disappearing again
Keith Lee has reportedly still been working the dark matches and there’s reports and
rumors that Vince McMahon is considering turning Keith Lee into a monster heel on Raw
So there’s a strong possibility that Keith Lee could return on Raw with a fresh start
and a new heel persona
It’s hard to really judge that idea until we actually see it play out, hopefully they
have a direction and story in plan for him this time around because that didn’t really
seem to be the case over the past year
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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