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Charlotte Would Rather Fight For the Championship Than Face Ronda Rousey, Talks End of Her PPV Streak

March 21, 2017 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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– Charlotte Flair appeared on SiriusXM’s Jim Norton and Sam Roberts show for a new interview. Some highlights are below:

On a possible match with Ronda Rousey: “I’d say get in line sister…I look at it, yeah, I look at it two ways. I think it would be an awesome opportunity, but right now the Women’s Championship is my focus so, women’s wrestling, Ronda you know, is, made great leaps and strides or whatever you want, I mean…basically put UFC, women’s UFC, on the map. So when I’m out of the title picture I’d say like yeah it’d be a fun, I don’t know, gimmick match, or like see, see what we can do…I’d rather be fighting for the Women’s Championship.”

On her in-ring chemistry with Sasha Banks: “For the longest time I just listened because the girls had so much more experience than me. Um, but, like Sasha, we don’t talk, we just know each other’s bodies. Like I know what she does, she knows what I do and we just, if I move a certain way she knows what, um, I’m going for”.

On the end of her PPV streak and losing the championship to Bayley: “Two ways to look at it. Well when I started people started being like ‘you have a pay-per-view streak going on’, I’m like what?…I was 16-0 which was weird, cause, I, it became 16, it was 16-0 then Cena won the 16 time…I, no I don’t think they put anything…there was no thought put into that…no but I was just, I kept racking up numbers I’m like well you have a pay-per-view streak so because I didn’t really think about it, I didn’t, it was more of a statistic than a story.”

On joking with Becky Lynch during matches: “Or like when Becky and I wrestle, we like joke the whole time. Like sometimes in our come back I’ll make funny noises and she’ll be like ‘why are you doing that?’…those are only at live events cause if they pick that up on one of the cameras on TV I can’t imagine…”

On the cost of her robes: “I’d be working for a very long time…they’re not ten, but they’re…they’re pretty, they’re about…yes I’m like, hold on I have to have one for every pay per—dang all my money’s going to these robes! But no I really put a lot of money into them but I know I’ll get my investment back one day.”

On her brothers’ struggles in the ring: “The other thing as I got older, watching my brothers struggle. I didn’t, I couldn’t stand that. Like it seriously like, I’ll get emotional thinking about it, like watching what my older brother went through in WCW when they’re like ‘oh hey this is Flair’s kid and let’s make some money with this’. And he had no experience, and he was thrown to the wolves…and then watching my brother, my little brother, not handle the pressure and like live, breathe, watch wrestling nonstop, that’s all he did. He wanted to be my dad. Like I could just remember him sitting on the computer and watching promo after promo after promo and I’m like ‘what are you doing?’ but you know what, he had a dream…now I’m living his dream.”