Charlotte has accomplished so much since joining the main roster, and at one point she went undefeated on pay-per-view for 16 events in a row. Quite a few people were shocked when Bayley defeated her at Fastlane, and there was some disappointment over the fact that WWE didn’t make a bigger deal about Charlotte’s streak.
The current SmackDown Live star recently spoke to the Mirror about her streak coming to an end, and she says the focus was more about Bayley overcoming the odds than the streak ending.
“Ha ha yeah, you know I tell people it was a statistic, not the story. The pay-per-view thing was more a cool statistic. The story was here’s this underdog, that in Charlotte’s eyes was just a fan and didn’t belong in her presence. And I think that was the bigger focus, that she finally did it, she slayed the dragon, ha ha.”
Last year Charlotte walked into her first WrestleMania as the WWE Divas Champion, and she walked out with the Raw Women’s Title. This year she challenged for the belt and she says she was in a completely different state of mind at WrestleMania 33.
“Oh my gosh, I was feeling it! Like last year I was so nervous I could barely… I was like ‘Am I going to fall? My dad’s beside me, it’s my first Mania, what am I doing here?’ Then when I walked out this year, I just knew I belonged and I knew how far I had come, so I just enjoyed the moment, I soaked it up, and I was singing Beyoncé in my head as I walked down the ramp, I was like ‘this is so great’. Last year I had the pressure of my dad being beside me and don’t mistake this for ‘I wasn’t thrilled to have with my dad with me’, but this was kind of like my first moment, my first entrance, like I had made it. Of course I will always be Ric Flair’s daughter, but it meant this time I was like ‘you know what? I’m Charlotte’. I was so proud.”
