More details continue to emerge regarding the promo battle between Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton on the April 4 episode of WWE SmackDown.
Flair mocked Stratton’s voice, and Tiffany poked fun at Charlotte’s three divorces. After Stratton said Flair was 0-3 with marriages, Charlotte said Tiffany’s real-life boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser was in her DMs.
Fightful Select noted that Flair directly addressing the boos from the crowd wasn’t planned in the segment. However, it was considered “run-of-the-mill ad-libbing that would never get anyone any heat.”
Fightful Select has reported the situation was referred to as a “wreck” within WWE. Bryan Alvarez also shared on Wrestling Observer Live what he heard was planned and unscripted in the segment.
“Tiffany starts doing all of her lines. She mentions that Charlotte is a nepo baby, which is a scripted line. But then Charlotte jumps in with, ‘Nepo Queen. The number one nepo baby/’ This was not in the script. Then she starts making fun of Tiffany’s voice, which was absolutely not in the script. And she’s ridiculing her and doing the high-pitched voice thing,” Alvarez began. “Tiffany, I guess she was over it, she mentioned ‘0-3’. The discussion about divorces and everything, that was all in the script, but the line about 0-3, which was a reference to how many times she’s been divorced, that was not in the script.
Tiffany ended up throwing down the mic and rolling out of the ring, which is a heel move and she’s supposed to be a babyface. That also was not in the script. And if you watch it, she throws down the mic, and she starts to roll out of the ring, and Charlotte is walking, and Wade Barrett, he is gonna get between these two because he can see this thing has gone totally off the rails. And so, they go to the back, and the fact is, there was heat on both of them. There was more heat on Charlotte because A, she went off the script more, and B, she’s the veteran. She’s the one that’s supposed to be keeping this stuff together.”
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