Charlotte Flair will defend her SmackDown Women's Championship against Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania after Judgement Day's Eradicator won the Women's Royal Rumble match and officially challenged her old nemesis the following night on Raw.
Ripley has come up short against Flair in the past, but vowed to finally use everything she's learned since to overcome one of the most dominant champions of the modern WWE era.
It's a big match, for sure, but should it headline the show of shows? The Queen certainly believes it should.
"I always find it so odd when people say, 'Why does Charlotte always want to main-event?' Isn't that what you want as a performer?," Flair said during an in-depth interview with JournalOnline.com. "If you're a football team, you want to be at the Super Bowl, right? I don't understand the criticism over that. Why wouldn't you want to be a champion?"
Flair and Ripley are expected to come face-to-face this Friday on SmackDown, and the current champ is not sure how the crowd - who aren't used to seeing The Queen as a babyface - will react.
"With Rhea, we're not starting from scratch. We have so much history. We have our first faceoff Friday. I'm not planning anything in my head creatively because I want to feel the energy. I want to feel what the audience thinks of how far she's come, and where I'm at now. Will it be a different vibe? Are they going to want to see her beat me, or do they know she's not ready? I have to feel it out there, depending on my mind, what direction to go. At the same time, I feel how Rhea feels will be much different. I beat her for the NXT title, I beat her for the Raw title.
That's something, in her heart: "I know I can beat Charlotte. I have to beat Charlotte." I feel like she has something to prove to herself. … And we naturally have such great chemistry. I know she's going to bring it, and she knows I'm going to bring it."
WrestleMania will once again be a two night event, so we see no reason why this match couldn't headline one of them. Then again, one could argue that Asuka vs. Bianca Belair for the Raw title is just as worthy.
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