Ahead of her upcoming SmackDown Live Women’s Championship Triple-Threat Match at next Sunday’s WWE SummerSlam 2018 pay-per-view, Charlotte Flair spoke with the folks from Press Of Atlantic City for an interview. Featured below are some of the highlights.
On her upcoming triple-threat match for the SmackDown Live Women’s Championship against Carmella and Becky Lynch at WWE SummerSlam: “Yeah! The match Tuesday [with Becky Lynch] against the IIconics, I really felt in my groove. I think I wasn’t expecting to be in the title picture for SummerSlam. I think having the opportunity, and then also facing Carmella and getting her back because she beat me twice, and then obviously facing my best friend friend, [Lynch]. Whether she wins or I win, I always like being in the ring with her. She always makes me raise my game. So yeah, I’m just so focused on SummerSlam. It’s a short time before the event so I just want to make sure I’m back in shape. I missed SummerSlam last year so it’s just crazy to think that it’s been a year since then. My dad got sick last year and then just making it back in time. I’m excited, especially with SummerSlam. It’s a mini WreslteMania. To be on the card is an honor. Had I not won the match [against Carmella] I would have been so disappointed.”
On the positive reactions she received backstage at WrestleMania after her match with Asuka: “And never do I think the men don’t support us. That’s not what I’m saying. It’s one of those things that I remember after my match with Asuka [at WrestleMania 34], a couple of the boys came up to me and were like, ‘just helluva match.’ There is nothing more satisfying than hearing that from a man. I’m not taking away from a girl saying it either, but it’s just like, ‘heck yea, I’m doing it,’ you know? For them to appreciate your athleticism, your work, your effort, your story-telling because they really are… There’s nothing better.”
On when she first found out about the all-women’s WWE Evolution pay-per-view: “I heard rumors. You never know what’s going to happen. I hear things all the time that never come to light. I just gotta go, the best advice is to focus on your tunnel vision. Just keep moving forward. Don’t expect things. Just keep working. I knew if we kept working as hard as we did something like this would happen. And also too, I think it takes for the first time we have the depth to have an all-women’s pay per view. That’s what matters most is that we have that many women that are that talented.”
On a women’s tag-team division in WWE: “I want to tag with Becky! We’re Tea-Generation X! I think that would be awesome. And that’s another thing. Everyone talks about the tag titles. I just wasn’t sure, you know, that we had to have the right amount of women. And depending if that happens one day that would be so much fun.”
Check out the complete Charlotte Flair interview at PressOfAtlanticCity.com.
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