Ric Flair says he didn’t get to see his daughter Charlotte‘s return on the December 30 episode of WWE SmackDown in person, though he had been in the building earlier in the show.
On Friday night, Charlotte Flair returned to WWE, ending her lengthy absence after she hadn’t been seen since Ronda Rousey beat her to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at WWE Extreme Rules. Charlotte confronted Rousey on the December 30 show and defeated her in an impromptu title match to win her fourteenth championship.
Speaking on his To Be The Man podcast, Flair described how he was at the SmackDown taping on Friday, but he had no idea about Charlotte’s return, so he left before it happened. He also noted that the genuine surprise surrounding Charlotte’s return was “old-school kayfabe”, as he stated that it had been a long time since something like that happened.
“I was in the building and left and didn’t know it,” Flair said. “It is the first time in so many years that nobody knew. I was in the building. I went and saw Roman and John. It was the greatest time. I just really felt like part of the family again. I just had a ball. But I didn’t even know. I left and went to look on social, and then I got word that she was there.
“I’d had a couple drinks with the hockey players, so I wasn’t gonna go back to the building. But I watched it, and they put it on TV for me. It was amazing. That is really old-school kayfabe. I’m thinking to myself how cool that was. I don’t remember that happening for a long time, when there wasn’t even an inkling of something like that.
Flair went on to joke that Charlotte didn’t tell him about the return because he would have told everyone about it and ruined the surprise. He also stated that SmackDown was the first WWE show he had been to since “that bulls—” in reference to the Dark Side of the Ring episode where he was accused of sexual assault.
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