Rikishi Doesn’t Think Charlotte Flair Is On The List Of Greatest Women’s Wrestlers, Praises Jazz, Nikkita Lyons, And Jacqueline

Rikishi would not consider Charlotte Flair to be one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time.  

During the latest episode of his Off the Top podcast, Rikishi was asked about the possibility of Naomi, his daughter-in-law, working a program against Charlotte Flair. During this discussion, he was also asked whether he thinks Flair could be considered one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time. Blunt as ever, Rikishi stated that he would not consider Flair to be one of the greatest of all time.  

Instead, Rikishi reflects on the past, asserting that some of the legends who came before Charlotte would truly shine today if they were in their prime and given the same freedoms as modern wrestlers. 

“No, I wouldn’t. There’s so many other wrestlers before her time. Had they been young enough to be able to go, they could have kept up with her. They weren’t built like her, as far as pushing her as far as Superstar status. There’s a few. Miss Jackie, Miss Texas (Jacqueline Moore). Can you imagine if Miss Texas was young and in this era? Ivory, back in the day. These names that I’m throwing out there were never really pushed, but they were so good of workers that they were able to make other Superstars. They danced a lot with Trish Stratus. Danced a lot with Lita. All these guys are still relevant today, but you don’t hear too much about women legends like that… If they were in this era, I would love to see Jazz — she would be another good Contender to rock with some of these new chicks,” he said. 

He would go on to praise NXT’s Nikkita Lyons and talk about what he thinks makes a strong wrestling talent. 

“I’m a big fan of Nikkita Lyons, that’s in NXT. We’re waiting, where is she? Hopefully, these girls here are able to get a chance to even sit in the same locker room with some of these names that I mentioned from the past, because you can really learn a lot to soak up a lot of that knowledge. So, so at the end of the day, it’d be nice to see a lot of this new female talent flourish, understand the psychology of the game, and learn to be a good storyteller in there. It’s not how many spots you do, or how your spots look. It’s like every movement, every in between, has to mean something, has to have the right emotions, facials behind it, good luck to everybody.” 

Jazz was recently a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center. 

For more opinions from Rikishi, check out what he had to say about Jey Uso losing the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Read his comments here. 

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