Royal Rumble winner Charlotte Flair and WWE Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton met face-to-face in the ring on "WWE SmackDown" for another war of words, this time moderated by commentator Wade Barrett to prevent them from getting physical, but they reportedly didn't stay on script for their promo battle.According to WrestleVotes on X (formerly Twitter) the women said "very little" of what was in the rundown for them and went off script "quite a bit."
WrestleVotes didn't specify what portions of the segment were specifically off script, but it ended with Stratton taking a shot at Flair's most recent divorce, calling her "0-3" and Flair asking why Stratton's boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser was in her DMs as the champion slid out of the ring.
Flair and Stratton's split-screen interview on the March 21 episode of "SmackDown" was criticized by fans with many saying Flair attempted to bury the champion. Some within WWE even believed Stratton was put in a "sink or swim" situation. Prior to the heavily criticized segment, the women traded attacks on one another, with Stratton being the woman left standing most recently after taking Flair out with a moonsault from the top of the tron.
