What is a voyage?
It's a long journey with many storms, and
you have to weather them all to get to the end of that voyage.
No one said this is your journey, this is your path, this is what's next,
this is what lies ahead.
I just knew that I wanted more, that I wanted to get better,
that there was always a next, I feel like the fun is just now starting, right?
It's been six years, but now I'm just having fun with it.
So my voyage just got longer.
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>> And at WrestleMania we will also debut the symbol of that evolution.
The WWE women's championship.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> I
believe we were in Brooklyn when that was annaounced by Stephanie.
You could just tell everyone was excited when everyone was like I'm gonna
win this first.
They weren't saying that, but you could see everyone's eyes on the prize, because
it looks so cool and it was so drastically different than the Divas title.
looks like the men's title.
I think it's hard to feel or see what it means in the moment,
but really that they were making a change as whole for
the women and I was a part of that and that
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They were giving us more opportunities, more time, more storyline,
we were a focal point about Wrestlemania.
And up until then, I think AT&T was announced as the biggest.
And I was just growing into the Divas title as well when I won that title from
Nikki.
When you saw Nikki walk out you're like, well, that's a star.
When I was walking out I was still like, where do I put my hands, [LAUGH],
what do I wear, how do I smile, how do I walk, does this look okay?
I like second guessing every step fake it till you make it right?
But not until I won WrestleMania 32 when the referee
handed me that title, I was like, Okay.
I don't feel like the title owns me, I own it.
And I think it was that no one was going, wow,
that was a great women's match, no, that was just a great match.
And that's what the three of us did, that day on the grandest stage together,
so when I held that title, I was like, yeah, I'm an equal.
That wasn't the hard part, that was the fun part,
was just making sure that it all came together at the right time, and it did.
>> What charlotte gonna do,
Charlotte Flair [SOUND] Sasha [INAUDIBLE] Sasha then he tapped out.
>> Ladies and gentlemen your winner by submission and
the new WWE Womens champion Charlotte.
>> The word revolution felt really big at the time but
wasn't something that we didn't think that we could accomplish.
We wanted to give them women's wrestling, we wanted to steal the show,
we wanted to show that we could be the main event cuz we had been in NXT.
Here you have three girls from the NXT who possibly are going to steal
the night at WrestleMania 32, and the biggest WrestleMania to date,
like that is unheard of, that match started the revolution.
It was the first time I did the spin, cuz I had the row,
the timing and the music and just like I was just growing into everything.
There wasn't really like, I wasn't the full package.
And that moment was still so memorable for that night and what we did,
but so much doubt, so much uncertainty, so much learning to do.
Now when I walk out like I can picture my insurance, I can picture what
it feels like to be in front of 101,000 people, it's hard to explain.
I'm just grateful, I still wake up in the morning,
I don't know how I got so lucky.
When I think of moments like, I'll never forget that.
So when I walk out here I'm just
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You first thought it's just like a blink of an eye, it feels like yesterday.
>> You are not special.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> You are just first,
I'll see you at WrestleMania, [APPLAUSE] >> Well,
the opportunity is back in the main event of WrestleMania.
>> I hear the name Ronda Rousey, I'm like, that's badass, right?
But there's no doubt in my mind that in this realm of what I
do in sports entertainment no one is better than me.
I don't care your name, I don't care how tough you are.
You think you're the baddest woman on the planet, I know how bad I am.
You wanna main event, why I am the main event here?
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Like it's not, I don't look at it as I have to beat Rhonda, no Rhonda has
to beat me, but I think I opened that door to make that dream a reality,
to find an equal was someone that could go toe to toe with her.
That's not afraid of her.
A lot of that has to do with how much I respect her but
there is that a little piece of me that goes
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Yeah you're welcome.
No one knows, The squared circle better than I do.
This is in my blood, this is my legacy,
this is like being the WWE Women's Champion means everything to me,
it has since 2015, what I'm fighting for
in this industry no one could understand.
And that's the opponent that she's facing,
this is not just a win, it's not just a mania main event,
it's not just a big match for Charlotte Flair,
it's her brother's dream, it's her legacy,
it's her father's legacy, it's a family legacy,
it's a family business, it's where all my love and
passion and I love this business.
I'll be here as champion, I'll be here when I win,
I'll be here when I lose, so I fight so
much more than just becoming the SmackDown Women's Champion.
It's amazing, this is in my blood.