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Backstage news update regarding Tiffany Statton and Charlotte Flair going “heavily off script” during WWE Smackdown

Aaron Rift

As seen during the April 4th 2025 edition of WWE Smackdown, there was an in-ring promo battle between women’s champion Tiffany Statton and Charlotte Flair. According to Twitter/X account @WrestleVotes, the women said “very little of what was in the rundown for them” and they allegedly went “off script quite a bit.”

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com noted on Twitter/X that everyone he spoke with about the segment believes Charlotte and Tiffany “went heavily off script” while Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com wrote the following…

“The belief among those we’ve spoken with this morning is that Stratton fired away on Flair in retaliation for how Flair ‘ate her up’ on a previous face to face segment. Some we spoke with felt Stratton stood up for herself in a way that put the spotlight back on her (and in front of a Chicago crowd was sincerely pro-Stratton) while others felt that the segment going awry towards the end didn’t help anyone. Several we spoke to also noted that Flair was obviously thrown by the crowd, which allowed Stratton’s shots to hit even harder.”

After WWE deleted the Twitter/X post of Tiffany referencing Charlotte’s divorces, the comments were also removed from WWE’s official YouTube video of the segment. As of this writing, WWE on USA’s YouTube video remains unedited.

Tiffany’s real-life boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser publicly addressed Charlotte’s line about him being in her direct messages with the following video post…