Charlotte Flair: Just Because Someone Is Athletic, It Doesn’t Mean They’re Going To Be Good
Charlotte Flair says that athleticism can’t be a wrestler’s only trait.
Over the course of wrestling history, there have been many former athletes or sports players that have quickly fizzled out of the business due to their lack of charisma or ability to connect with the audience.
In a recent interview with Kate Mackz, Charlotte Flair opened up and said that it took her years to figure out how to be more than just her athleticism.
“Just because someone’s athletic, it doesn’t mean they’re going to be good. I was athletic but I really had to figure out a character or figure out how to elicit some type of emotional response and that took a lot of years. The think about WWE, it’s like 50% a professional D1 sport and 50% a Hollywood studio backlot. Imagine that always colliding. Everything from beginning to end is performative but it’s all storyline based 52 weeks a year. Whether you’re fighting for a title or a non-title or a backstage fight or in the ring, whatever that looks like, it is all storyline based. Obviously, some of the best stories over the years is when real life and storyline kind of blend in and you don’t know what’s real or not. That does happen. But that’s the beauty of what we do and that’s been professional wrestling since day one. That will never change.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Flair said that she wasn’t ready for her Divas Championship win in 2015. Check out her full comments here.
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