On The Wrestling Inc. Daily, WWE referee Jimmy Korderas discussed the backstage confrontation between Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch.
As noted, Charlotte was later escorted out of the building by WWE security as Lynch had a dark match later that night. Korderas explained whether or not these kinds of exchanges are typical amongst talent.
“I think in today’s day and age, it is a rarity. It was a little more, I don’t want to say it was frequent back in the day, but stuff like that happened,” Korderas noted. “We know about the issues with Shawn [Michaels] and Bret [Hart], and there was one I was witness to after after a match at SmackDown one day between Eddie [Guerrero] and Kurt Angle, who got into it backstage before Big Show broke it up. It got physical. Sometimes things get heated, for whatever reason it is, whether it’s ego, whether something happened in the match, whatever the case may be, something was said that wasn’t supposed to be said.
“I think it’s less frequent now, but at the same time, in this business, ego is a big thing, and this is my impression, this is what took place here. There’s a little bit of an ego issue with how this was going to go down. I wasn’t a big fan of just swapping the titles in the first place. It was kind of like, yeah, they’re just gonna switch the blue and the red titles back and forth. It felt lazy to me, but maybe something was said in the back that kind of set things off. I don’t know, but apparently, according to reports, it got intense. If I’m not mistaken, I read somewhere that Charlotte kind of snubbed Vince [McMahon] too.”
There are some fans who believe that Charlotte is forcing her way out in order to join her fiancé Andrade El Idolo in AEW. Korderas responded to that theory.
“I don’t want to say this is a conspiracy theory or anything like that, but anything’s a possibility at this point. We saw Adam Cole leave what was probably going to be a good deal with WWE to go join his his other half there in AEW (Britt Baker). I’m assuming that that had a lot to do with his decision making, and who knows, with Andrade over at the other kids table, maybe that is incentive for Charlotte to want to go over and, and how much does the situation with her dad play into it? Because now he’s persona non grata, there’s a lot to digest and trying to try to decipher all the little things is going to be hard.”
