Charlotte Flair Profile and Photos

Birth Name – Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr
Born – April 5, 1986 in Charlotte, Noth Carolina, USA
Height – 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Major Titles Held: WWE Raw Women’s Championship (4), WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship (4), NXT Women’s Championship (1), WWE Divas Champion (1)

Charlotte Flair is an American professional wrestler, author, and actor. She is a second-generation wrestler in her family. Her father, Ric Flair, is known as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Ric and his then-wife, Elizabeth. Having a famous wrestler as her father had no special influence on the way she wanted her career to shape up. She was good at sports and excelled in basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics. However, while in university, she studied to become a personal trainer and then arrived in the ring as a wrestler. She signed with ‘World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.’ (WWE) in May 2012 and appeared on her first televised fight a year later, on ‘NXT,’ which saw her defeat Bayley. In July 2015, Charlotte was introduced to the ‘WWE’ main roster and had her first stint with ‘Raw.’ She then became the ‘WWE Divas Champion.’ From the very beginning, she exhibited her talent to become the most-feared female superstar on ‘Raw.’ In 2016, ‘Pro Wrestling Illustrated’ named her the ‘Woman of the Year’ and regarded her as the world’s top female professional wrestler. Since the beginning of her career, she has held six championship belts.

Childhood & Early Life

Charlotte Flair was born Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr, on April 5, 1986, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Ric Flair, a widely popular professional wrestler and his then-wife, Elizabeth. She had a younger brother, Reid, who died tragically in 2013. She has two older half-siblings, David and Megan.

Ric was absent during most of Charlotte’s childhood years, and as a result, she grew significantly distant from him. A few years after she was born, her parents got divorced. This affected Charlotte, and she had a troubled childhood. However, Ric did whatever he could to compensate for his absence. He visited her whenever he was in town.

When Charlotte told her classmates in school that she was the daughter of Ric Flair, many of them did not believe her. She used her father’s connections to help her bring Randy Savage, the famous wrestler, to her school to make her classmates believe her stories.

Charlotte did not initially like being part of her illustrious wrestling family. Her interest in fitness and sports led her to prepare to become a personal trainer. She was once a promising volleyball player. She graduated from ‘Providence High School’ and was the school volleyball team’s captain and the player of the year from 2004 to 2005. She was also part of the school team that won two ‘NCHSSA 4-A State Championships.’

She attended the ‘Appalachian State University’ (ASU) in North Carolina, where she played volleyball for two seasons. After two years at ‘ASU,’ she was transferred to ‘North Carolina State University,’ from where she finished her Bachelor of Science degree in public relations. Meanwhile, she also became a certified personal trainer.

Career

Before being professionally associated with ‘WWE,’ Charlotte had already made an appearance in the ring with her father. She was 13 years old when she appeared in the ring alongside Ric during his on-going feud with Vince Russo and David at a ‘World Championship Wrestling’ (WCW) event. In June 2000, at ‘The Great American Bash,’ she was at ringside along with her brother, Reid, while her father fought David in the ring. When Russo interfered, Charlotte and her brother attacked and handcuffed him.

Charlotte signed her first official developmental contract with ‘WWE’ in May 2012. She trained for a year and made her official in-ring debut in July 2013 in a singles match, which saw her defeat Bayley. A few months later, she formed a “tag team” with Bayley and successfully won many “tag team” matches. However, in November, she attacked Bayley and established herself as a villainess on ‘NXT.’

In May 2014, she earned her first championship title when she defeated Natalya in the finals of ‘NXT TakeOver.’ For the following few months, she continued with her feuds with Bayley, Summer Rae, and Paige. She managed to successfully defend her title in a one-on-one match against Summer Rae in July. In September, she defended her title again, against her arch-rival Bayley. However, she surprised the audiences when after defeating Bayley in an October rematch, she raised Bayley’s arm, hugged her, and shook hands with her.

In February 2015, she finally lost her title to Sasha Banks, in a fatal four-way match. Her other two opponents in the match were Becky Lynch and Bayley. In July 2015, she challenged Banks for a title match which was accepted by Banks. Banks easily defeated Charlotte to retain the title and raised Charlotte’s hand as a sign of respect. This ended the long feud between the two female wrestlers.

On the July 13 episode of ‘Raw,’ Lynch, Banks, and Charlotte were introduced to the main roster. In her pay-per-view debut, she participated in a triple threat match against Brie Bella and Sasha Banks. Charlotte won the match and became an instant fan favorite.

In a September match at ‘Night of Champions,’ Charlotte defeated Nikki Bella to win the ‘Divas Championship.’ Charlotte then defended her title three times against Paige in the following few months. Charlotte’s streak of being a fan favorite came to a halt when she faked a leg injury to defeat Lynch. Ric Flair also provided a distraction. This move was met with booing from the audiences.

Soon, a triple threat match was set up for ‘WrestleMania 32’ and included Charlotte, Banks, and Lynch, An announcement during the event declared that the ‘Divas Championship’ had been converted into the ‘WWE Women’s Championship.’ After an intense match, Charlotte won in her ‘WrestleMania’ debut.

Following her ‘WrestleMania’ victory, Charlotte began a rivalry with Natalya and successfully defended her title against her in April. In May, when her father interrupted one of her matches, she thrashed him publicly and said that she did not need him. In July, she lost her title to Sasha Banks.

However, in October, she snatched the title back from Banks during the first women’s ‘Hell in a Cell’ match. It was named as ‘Raw’s Women Championship’ when ‘SmackDown’ announced their version of the championship. She successfully defended the title many times before eventually losing it to Bayley in February 2017. She failed to regain it in March.

In April, Charlotte made her debut on ‘SmackDown.’ She initially confused the audiences by transforming herself from being villainous to heroic. In November 2017, she successfully won the ‘SmackDown Women’s Championship’ after defeating Natalya in a one-on-one match, becoming the first ever wrestler to win the Divas, NXT, Raw and SmackDown Women’s titles.

At Fastlane on March 11, Charlotte retained the SmackDown Women’s Championship against Ruby Riott. After the match, the inaugural women’s Royal Rumble winner Asuka came to confront her and pointed towards the WrestleMania sign, confirming their match on April 8 at WrestleMania 34 for the SmackDown Women’s Championship[152] which Flair retained by forcing Asuka to submit, ending Asuka’s undefeated streak at 914 days.

On the April 10 episode of SmackDown Live, The IIconics (Peyton Royce and Billie Kay) attacked Flair amid a promo. Carmella subsequently used her Money in the Bank opportunity to defeat Charlotte and win the championship, ending her reign at 147 days.

On the July 31 episode of SmackDown Live, Flair returned to stop Carmella’s attack on Becky Lynch. Later that night, Flair was added to the SmackDown Women’s Championship match at SummerSlam after defeating Carmella, thus making the title match a triple threat also involving Becky Lynch. At Summerslam, Flair defeated Carmella and Becky Lynch to win the Smackdown Women’s Championship. After the match, she was attacked by Lynch, whom she pinned, thus ending their friendship and turning Lynch’s character heel for the first time since 2015. Four weeks later at Hell in a Cell, Flair lost the title to Lynch.

In November, Flair was picked by an injured Becky Lynch as her replacement in a match against Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey at Survivor Series, where she lost via disqualification after brutally attacking Rousey with a kendo stick and a steel chair. The following month, on December 16 at the TLC pay–per–view, Flair competed in the first ever women’s Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match against both Lynch and Asuka, who would go on to win the match after Rousey interfered and pushed both Flair and Lynch off a ladder.

At the 2019 Royal Rumble, Flair competed in her first women’s Royal Rumble match, where she lasted 50:01 minutes and eliminated five women, tying the eliminations record set by Michelle McCool in 2018, before becoming the last woman eliminated by Lynch who ultimately won the match in the process.

In February, Vince McMahon replaced Lynch with Flair in Lynch’s title match against Ronda Rousey for the Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 35 after he suspended Lynch for 60 days in storyline. In March, Lynch was reinstated and she defeated Flair at Fastlane via disqualification, after Rousey purposely attacked Lynch to give her the win, making the title match at WrestleMania a triple threat match. Just a few weeks before WrestleMania 35, on the March 26 episode of SmackDown, Flair defeated Asuka to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship for a third time, becoming the only woman in WWE history to have won eight women’s championships. At the event, in what was the first time that women main evented a WrestleMania event, Flair lost her championship in a Winner takes all for both her SmackDown and Ronda Rousey’s Raw Women’s Championships when Lynch pinned Rousey to win both titles.

Shortly after WrestleMania, Flair continued her feud with Lynch over the SmackDown Women’s Championship, as she implied that she had not been pinned or submitted to lose her title, and went onto defeat Bayley to earn herself a rematch for the title at Money in the Bank. At the event, Flair won the championship from Lynch after an interference by Lacey Evans who attacked Lynch with a Women’s Right. After the match, the two continued to attack Lynch until Bayley making the save. Bayley, who had won the Money in the Bank briefcase, cashed-in on Flair and defeated her to end her reign at just 4 minutes and 52 seconds, Flair’s shortest title reign of all time. Shortly after the Money in the Bank, Lynch was moved to the Raw roster and that officially put an end to the almost year-long feud between the two.

Charlotte entered in a short storyline with WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus that led to a match between the two at SummerSlam. At the event, Flair was able to submit Stratus in what was the latter’s legit retirement match. With her win over Stratus, Flair felt that she deserved an opportunity at the SmackDown Women’s Championship and that re-ignited the feud between Flair and Bayley. It was during this time that Flair quietly turned into a fan favorite once again, this time due to Bayley’s reunion with Sasha Banks, which completed her heel turn. On September 15, at Clash of Champions, Bayley retained over Flair after she used an exposed turnbuckle as leverage. After she submitted Bayley during a tag team match (between Flair and Becky Lynch against Bayley and Banks), Flair earned herself a rematch which took place at the Hell in a Cell event, where Flair defeated Bayley to win her record-setting tenth women’s championship.

On the October 11 episode of SmackDown, however, Flair dropped the title back to Bayley, thus ending Flair’s fifth reign at only five days. On the October 14 episode of Raw, Charlotte was drafted back to the Raw brand during the second night of the 2019 Draft. At the TLC pay-per-view in December, she teamed with Becky Lynch to challenge The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, but the two were unsuccessful. The match saw Sane suffering a legitimate concussion mid-match. In a later interview, Fliehr addressed Sane’s injury, stating: “Obviously Kairi was hurt, but in the match I’m just thinking: ‘How do we keep people invested?'”  On January 26, 2020 at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Flair entered the women’s Royal Rumble match at No. 17 and went on to win the contest by eliminating Shayna Baszler.

Flair spent weeks teasing an announcement regarding her championship opponent at WrestleMania 36, leading to confrontations with NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley on Raw and NXT. At the NXT TakeOver: Portland PPV event on February 16, after Ripley retained her championship against Bianca Belair, Flair attacked Ripley from behind and accepted Ripley’s challenge to face her for the NXT Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 36, and later attacked Belair.

Personal Life

Charlotte Flair was in trouble with the law for allegedly assaulting a police officer on duty in 2008. Her then-boyfriend and her father were also involved in the matter. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail in September 2008. The sentence was later reduced to a supervised probation and a fine.

Charlotte married Riki Johnson in 2010 and got divorced a year later. She later revealed in her autobiography that Riki had physically assaulted her. In 2013, she married Thomas Lattimer. However, the couple divorced in 2015. Charlotte is currently dating WWE Superstar Andrade Almas.

She had a younger brother, Reid, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2013.

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