WWE Star Charlotte Flair Says She Never Understood The Controversy Surrounding The Divas Championship: ‘I’m Still A Badass And I Wear Butterflies All The Time, You Can Still Be Strong’

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Charlotte Flair has shared her honest thoughts on the WWE Divas Championship, stating that she never understood the controversy surrounding it.

The Queen is recognised as the final Divas Champion, winning the gold from Nikki Bella at Night of Champions 2015, and retiring it following the introduction of the Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 32 in 2016.

The introduction of the Raw Women’s Championship came almost nine months into the women’s revolution, with many fans seeing the retiring of the pink Divas Title in favor of a championship belt which followed the same general design as the WWE Championship as the final step in the company’s directive to take its women’s division more seriously.

Speaking on Ring The Belle, Charlotte Flair stated that she carried the Divas Championship with a lot of pride, and felt that the women in WWE could be both badass and feminine.

Flair stated:

“I’ve heard that before, but to me, it was like the one title that I felt owned me and I didn’t own.

“I was also, as an athlete, so proud to hold the Divas Championship and feel like a diva, when at my core was an athlete, and realising you could be both at the same time. And then when I retired it, I took a lot of pride, because you have to look at the women before me.

“Had I not retired the Divas Championship and ended Nikki Bella’s longest reigning Divas Championship reign, where would I be today? It was like all part of the history.

“I never understood the controversy in it, like just because it had a butterfly? Well, I’m still a badass and I wear butterflies all the time. You can still be strong, it doesn’t mean anything.

“I think it’s having the duality, having the feminine energy and being badass at the same time, that’s what makes women so special, we can do it all.”

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There is no one definitive or correct sentiment surrounding the Divas Championship, with many fans and wrestlers alike voicing opposing points of view over the years.

To some, even if they didn’t find the pink offensive, they felt like a rebrand was the best thing for WWE’s women’s division, which just over a year prior had a match so short on the February 23, 2015 Raw episode that the hashtag #GiveDivasAChance started trending.

Meanwhile a number of wrestlers – including Charlotte Flair in these recent comments – stated that they were proud to be seen as “divas” in WWE, who are we to tell them that they are wrong?

With the Raw, SmackDown and NXT women’s divisions being stronger than ever, it’s an exciting time to look to the future, while also remembering all of the female wrestlers who paved the way for product we have today.

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