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How WWE Reacted To Controversial Charlotte Flair-Tiffany Stratton Segment

By John Canton • Published 5th April 2025
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There is some backstage insight into the bizarre Charlotte Flair-Tiffany Stratton promo exchange on WWE SmackDown.

The face-to-face promo segment between WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton and her WrestleMania 41 opponent Charlotte Flair on SmackDown in Chicago was supposed to get people excited about their WrestleMania match.

Instead, the Stratton-Flair promo exchange left fans talking about how bizarre it was. It has been reported that Flair and Stratton went off script in the promo, perhaps after the fans booed Flair so loudly that she seemed to lose track of what she was supposed to say. This led to Flair awkwardly making fun of Stratton’s squeaky voice, which may have angered Stratton.

Near the end of the promo, Stratton said that when she beats Flair at WrestleMania, Flair will be like she is outside of the ring – alone. Stratton said that record is 0-3, which was a reference to Flair being divorced three times. At that point, Stratton left the ring.

That led to the awkward promo ending when Flair fired off one final line: “Hey Tiffany, is that why Kaiser is in my DMs?” That was a reference to Stratton dating WWE’s Ludwig Kaiser for a few years, which the couple has revealed in numerous interviews.

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter has a subscriber-exclusive update noting that people within WWE have said the segment fell apart.

“It should be noted that everyone seems to be told that it was a segment that fell apart, just as it appeared. One person there did say it’s during WrestleMania season so you can’t say 100 percent either way. If you are in wrestling, especially a veteran, you are taught to believe nothing that appears on television is real.

But we were told from someone close to Stratton that that Flair went off script first and the lines from her, from Stratton’s standpoint, were retaliation. Stratton rolling out of the ring like a heel was to avoid it getting worse and a defense mechanism. This would be consistent with Flair having more heat on her than Stratton according to one person very close to the situation who wouldn’t provide any specific details past that and that there was heat on both and neither was the “good guy.”

It was added by Meltzer that while the WWE YouTube version edited some of the lines in the segment, the USA Network version still has them in.

Charlotte Flair Receives Birthday Wishes From Her Father And Ex-Husband

During a recent interview, Charlotte Flair admitted that she was embarrassed about her divorce from fellow WWE superstar Andrade. The divorce was official in October 2024, but it didn’t make the news until February 2025, just a few days after Flair won the Women’s Royal Rumble match.

Even though they are now divorced and Flair was just mocked for it on April 4th, Andrade wished Charlotte a happy birthday for her 39th birthday on April 5th.

Charlotte’s legendary father Ric Flair also paid tribute to his daughter for her birthday.

Everybody here at TJRWrestling wishes Charlotte Flair a happy 39th birthday.