Charlotte Flair says Ronda Rousey doesn’t get enough credit for WWE “putting women in the main event”

In an article published to theplayerstribune.com, Charlotte Flair gave her thoughts on Ronda Rousey’s contributions to WWE…

“I don’t think Ronda gets enough credit for WWE putting women in the main event. A lot of things about the women’s revolution might be true, but this is definitely true: Ronda being a main-event draw in UFC changed everything. I know that for a fact. I think the U.S. women’s soccer team being a draw helped us. I think Serena Williams and other women’s tennis players being a draw helped us. But in terms of WWE looking at women as potentially WrestleMania level main-eventers, you can trust me on this 100%: There’s before Ronda Rousey….. and then there’s after. And I wish people would talk about that more, and give Ronda her due.”

Charlotte also reflected on her match against Rousey at WWE Survivor Series 2018…

I’ve had a lot of great matches in my career……. and I think if you asked most people to pick the moment when I “arrived,” they’d pick a match from much earlier. But to me, that Ronda match in L.A. is the one. Because I think that’s the first moment in my career where I really, finally felt undeniable. Where I felt like I got to do what I do best, without any of the other bulls***. You know when you watch someone like a Patrick Mahomes or a Josh Allen play quarterback — and when they’re in the two-minute drill, it’s like they just flip on this switch and play FREE???

That’s how I felt against Ronda at Survivor Series. It was like for 15 minutes we were in the two-minute drill. There was no time to prepare for it, no time to think through it. But also no time to get in my own head about it. For one match, I just got to be a world-class athlete, thrown into a high-pressure moment, asked to go out there and execute. I just got to flip on that switch, go off instinct and play free. I felt like no one in the world could touch me that night.”