The March 21st, 2025 edition of WWE SmackDown featured a fiery “war of words” promo segment between WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair, setting the stage for what could be a marquee clash at WrestleMania. In a new interview with The Daily Mail, Flair was asked if she approached the interaction as an effort to “teach Tiffany a lesson”—but The Queen had a very different perspective.
“It’s great that you said ‘teach her a lesson’—I did not look at it as a lesson. I looked at it as: I am Charlotte Flair. Do you want me to be less than? This is what you wanted, right? This is who you want to be like, this is your idol. OK,” Flair stated emphatically.
She went on to draw a comparison to her 2019 match with Trish Stratus, where she felt the pressure of living up to a legend’s expectations. “Trish Stratus wanted to come back and wrestle me. Oh, I have to be as good as she thinks I am. Like, I can’t be less than. ‘Charlotte Flair is that good that I have to come back.’ She’d been gone for how many years? Yeah, now she makes a lot more regular appearances, but that’s all that’s going through my head.”
Flair believes her current situation with Stratton mirrors that moment. “This is a similar situation. I am going to be as good as everyone thinks I am, and now I feel like I’m even that much better because 2024 did kick my ass, and it did give me the clarity, and it did light the spark. Like, no, my career is on my time and I’m coming for everything.”
She ended with a strong declaration heading into WrestleMania season: “I’ve done my homework. WrestleMania is the easy part for me. WrestleMania is my domain.”
As tensions rise between the reigning champion and one of WWE’s most decorated stars, all eyes are on what’s shaping up to be a must-see showdown on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
