Speaker 1: This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this
Speaker 1: is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it.
Speaker 1: Let's getting down to do it. Good do it. We
Speaker 1: asked the questions you always want to know, but no
Speaker 1: one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard
Speaker 1: about it, then we're about to let you know. It's all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of spacey today. I don't know. Just sometimes
Speaker 1: it's good to just kind of come in. No no agenda,
Speaker 1: no no rhyme, no reason, no rhyme, no reason, just uh,
Speaker 1: just just enjoying life. Okay, okay, any new developments, man,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of new developments. Um so pretty cool.
Speaker 1: UM coach Bobby Ingram UH former coach, former player Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: He's the tight ends coach. Used to be my wide
Speaker 1: receiver's coach. Good friend of mine as well. He played
Speaker 1: with Seattle Seahawks, UM, and so we we became friends
Speaker 1: when he was coaching me and then become frames over time.
Speaker 1: And so his son, Dean Ingram, is a corner at
Speaker 1: UH University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Badger and Darren Baltimore. So
Speaker 1: they're driving down and we're gonna you know, he's also
Speaker 1: he played wide receiver in high school, so he moved
Speaker 1: a corner, so they actually got him playing both both ways.
Speaker 1: He's played both ways in Wisconsin. Now, yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: playing going into this year, he's gonna be playing both ways.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. And so I get to work
Speaker 1: out this weekend with him, and I'm actually looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. And that's rarely because you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: don't do that. You don't work guys out. I know you.
Speaker 1: You You get plenty, plenty, plenty offers that you know,
Speaker 1: and you don't take them. I don't take them, and
Speaker 1: and I think I'm in a place where I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to take this one because it's not competition.
Speaker 1: There's no Am I good enough? Right? I have a
Speaker 1: pair of clicks I got I got a few, three
Speaker 1: or four pairs of clicks still left in in the attic.
Speaker 1: But I think I may want to go buy me
Speaker 1: some clicks. So you get you getting festive. I just
Speaker 1: want to go buy me some clicks, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: just because I don't want to put on old clicks,
Speaker 1: because there's the clicks I warm when I played. Now
Speaker 1: we're getting somewhere, and I just I don't know how
Speaker 1: I feel about that, So I'd rather go by a
Speaker 1: pair on sale or a pair to try that maybe
Speaker 1: I wanted to try or thought. You know, I used
Speaker 1: to be a rebox for about ten twelve years, and
Speaker 1: then I moved to under armor when I went to
Speaker 1: UH in Carolina for about three years and then Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and I think the under armour ones really is associated
Speaker 1: with playing, and I'm not really sure that I want
Speaker 1: to put those on just because be associated with playing light.
Speaker 1: I still have all my cliques. First of all, Carolina
Speaker 1: still has in in their storage right now. They have
Speaker 1: like six and seven boxes of my locker stuff still there. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens sent me after a full cycle year
Speaker 1: of me not playing, they finally sent me my locker stuff,
Speaker 1: like all my cleats and all my gloves. So right
Speaker 1: now in my in my attic, I have probably about
Speaker 1: four or five pairs of Baltimore Raven cleaks. And then
Speaker 1: I got all obviously all my significant uh rebok in
Speaker 1: Carolina blowing black cleats. But what really says that I'm
Speaker 1: still a person at keeps up with his craft. Is
Speaker 1: I still got all my gloves, so I have my
Speaker 1: under armour Carolina Baltimore. Just you name it glove, so
Speaker 1: I can always I can bring out the pack of
Speaker 1: gloves anytime. So when you say you didn't really want
Speaker 1: to dust office, is it like a it's like a
Speaker 1: Pandora's box kind of thing, or it's just so emotionally
Speaker 1: drawn to it. I'm not emotionally drawn to it. I'm
Speaker 1: more of understanding that this opportunity with Dean is a
Speaker 1: teaching moment, not a competition moment. Okay, teaching moment. Explain
Speaker 1: the difference. So competition is I put on my cleeks
Speaker 1: and my gloves. You got a corner, he's gonna jam
Speaker 1: me up. And this bragging rights and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: No teaching is Let's talk about the nuances, the small
Speaker 1: little things, tricks of the trade, mastering your craft, understanding
Speaker 1: finding loopholes, understanding why and what right to where, the why,
Speaker 1: the how the whin the where not the I want
Speaker 1: a loss, let me quick jam you. I picked you off.
Speaker 1: It's not about that. It's about all the little things
Speaker 1: me and I had to text my my trainer, which
Speaker 1: my body guy so looking to see is a space
Speaker 1: in between his backpeller or runner wide receiver routes? Is
Speaker 1: it functional? Is he doing wasteless space? Right? Is it
Speaker 1: too much space? He's wasted all these little two nuances
Speaker 1: that only another craftsman would understand. So is it is
Speaker 1: it safe to say this is a sniff of coaching?
Speaker 1: Almost because the way you said t I mean one
Speaker 1: with someone's gonna listen to that and say, oh, he's
Speaker 1: coaching this kid up. So what's the difference between the
Speaker 1: teaching and coaching. Well, one, this person is teachable, and
Speaker 1: this person desires to be taught, not desired to be
Speaker 1: talked to see talked to? Is what all these people want?
Speaker 1: I want. I want to train with you. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not training, first of all, because you're training to play.
Speaker 1: I'm training to not be fat. There's a big difference, right,
Speaker 1: I'm training just to get a cardiovascular exercise to keep
Speaker 1: my all three chambers of my heart going. Right, You're
Speaker 1: training to do something that I know longer want to do.
Speaker 1: And so that's the difference. And then Dean is very teachable.
Speaker 1: He respects me, I respect him. Uh, he knows he's
Speaker 1: he's coming down taking out of his time. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna honor that he's taking out this time. And then
Speaker 1: I'm he's honoring that I'm taking out of my time.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get after that. I think we're doing
Speaker 1: uh to training sessions on on on Sunday, a little
Speaker 1: bit some stuff. I look at some stuff on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Then we'll get we'll we'll get down in dirty. Two
Speaker 1: sessions on Sunday and then one session on Monday. Well,
Speaker 1: you you better stay the disclaiming because people are gonna
Speaker 1: listen to this and they're gonna think smithy shop is open.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you up and they're gonna want you
Speaker 1: to train them or teach them or give them games.
Speaker 1: So you you, you might want to put a disclaimer
Speaker 1: out there that this ain't This ain't for any and everybody.
Speaker 1: It's not. But I'm also not in a space where
Speaker 1: I can dedicate a lot of that time. And one
Speaker 1: of the other things is too is people think that
Speaker 1: my time isn't valuable, right, And when I say valuable,
Speaker 1: people think, oh, you're talking about money, don't talking about
Speaker 1: what I have to do. So this weekend m As
Speaker 1: I do that, I'm also taken away from the time
Speaker 1: at the house. Right Saturday mornings is we me and
Speaker 1: Ducey usually fill up the bird feeder, put out the
Speaker 1: woodpecker um feeder because it's been eight up and the
Speaker 1: birds come. We average about fifteen sixteen birds in our backyard. Um,
Speaker 1: so you got the bird feeder. Uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: whatever stuff is needed to be done around the house
Speaker 1: with the wife. Boston has a basketball tournament, so it's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts that are required. That it's
Speaker 1: not money, it's something I can't get back, which is
Speaker 1: my time. So that that that's why it's this. This
Speaker 1: is not a something that where oh I'll pay you,
Speaker 1: and you know, because that's not where I'm at. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think I'm qualified and I have
Speaker 1: the right mind frame or the state of mind to
Speaker 1: really kind of do it as a full time gig
Speaker 1: or training because it's just it's tough to do right
Speaker 1: well if you gotta request and they're gonna happen over here.
Speaker 1: What I'm looking forward to it though, so you know,
Speaker 1: maybe who knows, maybe in the future. I know some
Speaker 1: people have asked me what I do. Maybe in the
Speaker 1: future I may do a little bit more than what
Speaker 1: I do now, which is pretty much nothing. Right, So
Speaker 1: some people have asked me. I've asked me, uh man,
Speaker 1: would you do a uh university or wide receivers? You know,
Speaker 1: you know why? Too many not dolls? You know? I
Speaker 1: get that. Yeah, And according to a lot of people,
Speaker 1: right man, I was just I was. I was allowed mouth.
Speaker 1: So so I'll just keep allowed mouth to myself. So
Speaker 1: who we got in advance of w w E Summer
Speaker 1: Slam up next on the cut to a podcast, We've
Speaker 1: got w w E superstar Charlotte Flair. She's won the
Speaker 1: women's championship thirteen times and she's the daughter of legendary
Speaker 1: Rick Flair. Be careful, she might just throw you in
Speaker 1: the figure eight leg lot. Charlotte Flare's on the cut
Speaker 1: to a podcast. Well, we're about to get into our
Speaker 1: first statement. It's called get iced up. It's gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and give it the first one. They're super random,
Speaker 1: so just get ready. Alright, First of all, are you
Speaker 1: your stage name or your birth government name? Your government name?
Speaker 1: I prefer Queen Way to escalate it. Alright, Okay, so
Speaker 1: how did you pick Charlotte as the name, so I
Speaker 1: kind of think it was a joke on me at first.
Speaker 1: But when I started at f c W, which was
Speaker 1: the developmental territory for w W, which is now an
Speaker 1: xt our third brand, they asked you to submit names.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't know. My middle name
Speaker 1: is Elizabeth, maybe Elizabeth, and then there's miss Elizabeth, miss Ashley,
Speaker 1: and then I love Sex in the City. So I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I love the name Charlotte, but I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm from Charlotte. I don't know, and I
Speaker 1: I think I requested a few others. I'm not I
Speaker 1: don't even remember, but they came back and they were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we love Charlotte. But my first match, the commentators were like,
Speaker 1: it's Charlotte from Charlotte, North Carolina. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that sounds terrible. I was like, you got you to
Speaker 1: say the Queen City. So that's how that all came up,
Speaker 1: just because it sounded terrible on commentary. So you're telling
Speaker 1: us it wasn't necessarily where you're from. First, it was
Speaker 1: from doll going Sex in the City, where you got
Speaker 1: inspired by Charlotte. Well for me it was, but I
Speaker 1: think for them it was like, well, Rick's build from Charlotte,
Speaker 1: so well, name or Charlotte, but Charlotte from Charlotte. So
Speaker 1: what hidden talents do you have that no one else
Speaker 1: knows about until today? I don't think any. I don't
Speaker 1: think I could eat a large pizza and one sitting
Speaker 1: like a normal large pizza. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: That would make me super bloated. You think that's when
Speaker 1: you see me at the gym and like my sweet
Speaker 1: sweatbelt for like two hours doing the You're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna need it all right, favorite old school wrestler not
Speaker 1: named Flair Anderson, Okay, right, she hit it with the uncle.
Speaker 1: We know a little bit of wrestling, so we knew
Speaker 1: that was from the from from the four four Horsemen.
Speaker 1: So my wrestling history is dated, but I stayed there
Speaker 1: because that's where it's most comfortable identified with it. I
Speaker 1: also it's kind of that sweet spot where I used
Speaker 1: to watch, Uh, I used to watch wrestling with my grandpa.
Speaker 1: So it's it's that it's that little happy place for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, dad, finished move was the figure four? Yours
Speaker 1: is the figure eight twice as good? So the next
Speaker 1: flares its very flaish, right there. Finished move would be
Speaker 1: what because you got four eight? Well, I mean exactly
Speaker 1: the face you just made, exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is the next person? The next? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Oh? I don't know, see you
Speaker 1: to think about that? You're so selfish. She is so honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I would want my daughter
Speaker 1: to wrestle on my kids. I don't know. M M.
Speaker 1: We have to dive into that, right I want to.
Speaker 1: We'll come back there. What's your favorite finishing move? I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie. This is so this is so random.
Speaker 1: But I used to love the sleeper move with Brutus
Speaker 1: the barber beefcake and then they would cut their hair
Speaker 1: when they were oh yeah, when he used to put
Speaker 1: them to sleep. I remember that. What was the cross
Speaker 1: face chicken Wayne Bob Backling? What you know about that? Nothing?
Speaker 1: I know? I know wrestling wrestling, first of all, the
Speaker 1: same thing I did, the same thing I watched wrestling
Speaker 1: with my granddaddy. Cross face chicken wings. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: the last one, and I think we may have her.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? How many letters are in the alphabet?
Speaker 1: I told you we are getting I knew it because
Speaker 1: I say, how did I say the other day? How
Speaker 1: many did I say? All right, I put you out there.
Speaker 1: So we're just we're just we'll just say you had
Speaker 1: the first land alphabet. It's it's don't google it. Are
Speaker 1: you googling? Yeah? Don't google. Yes, listen, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how many degrees you have or what school you went too.
Speaker 1: Just on the spot, on the spot, nobody really knows
Speaker 1: how many alphabets on the latter. I mean, let us alphabet.
Speaker 1: You just don't go. You don't walk around with that
Speaker 1: kind of knowledge. Just on the whim. How many teeth
Speaker 1: do you have in your mouth? I don't. You're saying
Speaker 1: this rooking house count really fake account. Doesn't want even break?
Speaker 1: So break what happened? You walked into it? I was
Speaker 1: going I was on class over. So we started off
Speaker 1: by said, I said, hey, let me see smile. Now,
Speaker 1: last week in your training, what happened? What's your fronts? No,
Speaker 1: it's not public knowledge. So this started. Gosh. I had
Speaker 1: been like six or seven, all right, was riding my
Speaker 1: bike in Providence Plantation in Charlotte, off the Providence Road,
Speaker 1: and I went over the handlebars and knocked out four
Speaker 1: front teeth and they were able to put I think
Speaker 1: like two or three back in. And then I just
Speaker 1: had one tea. It was one tooth missing, and I
Speaker 1: remember they like connected it with something so like the
Speaker 1: teeth could heal back. Like we literally two of them
Speaker 1: or three of them were found in my sweatshirt and
Speaker 1: my mom put them in milk. We went to the
Speaker 1: dentist or whatever orthodonist, dentnist, I don't know. They had
Speaker 1: different paradonist, I don't know. Um. And then in middle school,
Speaker 1: seventh grade and cheerleading, a girl knocked him out. And
Speaker 1: then the same girl, the same girl a year later again,
Speaker 1: so this is this That was around two yeah, but
Speaker 1: three rounds. So the same girl seventh grade knocked him out,
Speaker 1: eighth grade knocked him out the same ones. Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's go back. So you took the first
Speaker 1: ale from the bike. What kind of bike was it? Was?
Speaker 1: It like a Barbie bike, my little pony, It was
Speaker 1: a Barbie bike, all right? And then and then you
Speaker 1: took another ale by the same person. This was a person.
Speaker 1: This was the second time. Was a person she bobbed you?
Speaker 1: Was it an accident. So I was a fourth baseman,
Speaker 1: so like the girl, and I think that was and cheerly,
Speaker 1: like you know when you based the flyers, okay, and
Speaker 1: her nickname was her nickname was duck actually, and she
Speaker 1: came down with her arm. And then the next year
Speaker 1: the same thing knocked it again, not the second the
Speaker 1: first time you cried, the second time you cursed. I
Speaker 1: mean I was just like, I'm not meant to And
Speaker 1: then besides have been like three years ago. I don't remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three years ago I was in Germany on tour and
Speaker 1: Carmela knocked my bridge out and I finished the match,
Speaker 1: but then they had to fly me home from Germany
Speaker 1: our first night, I think it was like our first
Speaker 1: night and just gave me a new bridge. And then
Speaker 1: just last week I cracked my bridge. So I just
Speaker 1: have had bad luck. We have to take a break
Speaker 1: and the morning thing, we gotta pay some bills. You
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Speaker 1: I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother,
Speaker 1: cut to a podcast dot com. Growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite team or sport or both? Probably
Speaker 1: gymnastics growing up mm hmmm why Um, just because I
Speaker 1: was a gymnast until middle school and not until like
Speaker 1: middle school in high school did I really venture out.
Speaker 1: That's when I started playing volleyball, basketball, softball. So yeah.
Speaker 1: And I loved watching the Olympics, like the Olympics like
Speaker 1: just so for some reason just stands out to me.
Speaker 1: That group of girls, like the Magnificent Seven. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was classic. That was classic. I loved watching it. Did
Speaker 1: you have any teams that you rooted for? Oh, like
Speaker 1: football teams? Well, the Panthers, Um Panthers and then the
Speaker 1: Hornets at the Old Colosseum. That was amazing, original, the
Speaker 1: original bless Sea with my dance team. I mean I
Speaker 1: was so little, but look at you, she's flexing all
Speaker 1: through she's been flexing. Just used to the spotlight. Where
Speaker 1: are you from and the place you call your hometown? Oh,
Speaker 1: Charlotte born and raised. Not many of us, it's not,
Speaker 1: and you don't live here. I love Florida the weather
Speaker 1: because as much as I travel, it's just nice coming
Speaker 1: home to sunshine. Plus Mews Performance Center is that of Orlando,
Speaker 1: so it's just easier for me. Yeah, because actually I
Speaker 1: moved back to Charlotte, yeah, like three years ago, and
Speaker 1: I was only there for like six months because it
Speaker 1: was just the schedule is different for what I do
Speaker 1: than my friends that are still in Charlotte. So like
Speaker 1: when it's a Wednesday and I'm ready to go, Their
Speaker 1: work weeks Monday through Friday. So it was kind of
Speaker 1: lonely and then I don't know, it's just easier having
Speaker 1: the Performance Center in Orlando next door if I need
Speaker 1: to do something. So, but I love Miami, so maybe
Speaker 1: that's the next place. So what was your experience growing
Speaker 1: growing up in Charlotte as Rick Flair's daughter, Because you know,
Speaker 1: growing up in Charlotte is one thing. It's all different,
Speaker 1: but you know, growing up with an iconic dad, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming uh had to be a little bit different for you. Well,
Speaker 1: Charlotte was so small. I mean, I just feel like
Speaker 1: in the recent years, it's you know, a place to
Speaker 1: live or a place to move. But because I went
Speaker 1: to the same school, well, preschool, and I would to
Speaker 1: Providence Day until high school from kindergarten high school, so
Speaker 1: I was around the same kids and they were just
Speaker 1: used to my dad, So I didn't really mean the
Speaker 1: little area where we lived, everyone was used to him,
Speaker 1: So I didn't really realize how well known he was,
Speaker 1: I guess, or famous, because I was like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: just my dad wrestles. I didn't know any different. So
Speaker 1: not until college and I go, ah, this is kind
Speaker 1: of cool, my dad's famous. Like it didn't really because
Speaker 1: my dad I had done stuff for my school all
Speaker 1: growing up, and then I went to a Providence high
Speaker 1: school to finish school and people were just used to
Speaker 1: him in South Charlotte, so it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 1: And I was such a homebody and the only time
Speaker 1: I traveled was really for sports. Um, so not until
Speaker 1: college was like, oh man, my dad's famous. So would
Speaker 1: you say when you start to realize that your dad
Speaker 1: was famous and how famous and how iconic you was.
Speaker 1: Did it start to change things? Did it start to
Speaker 1: make things a little bit complicated for you? No? I
Speaker 1: mean kids had like when I played um volleyball and
Speaker 1: basketball for school sports like the heckling. The heckling for
Speaker 1: me like the wooze and my dad with the cow
Speaker 1: bells and stuff. I had been used to it since
Speaker 1: middle school. I think it just really didn't register or
Speaker 1: bother me till I started wrestling. When people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's only wrestling, or she only got in or can
Speaker 1: wrestle because of her dad being Rich Flair, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: excuse me, I like, I don't know how to put it,
Speaker 1: like super athletic, that you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I mean that's when it really started to impact me.
Speaker 1: And that was my late twenties when I started wrestling.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think for my brothers it probably impacted
Speaker 1: them more than it did me because I was always
Speaker 1: doing my own thing. So as a kid, what was
Speaker 1: your safe haven? Just being home and my mom and dad. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean people think that it was super wild, but
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't really around that. My dad didn't
Speaker 1: have my little brother and I um out there around
Speaker 1: like like a celebrity scene or trying. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to get into movies or acting or anything.
Speaker 1: I just I played sports and I went to school.
Speaker 1: That was it. And my dad was already beat your breakfast.
Speaker 1: You have to see the trainer, like, get me with
Speaker 1: the trainer. Since like a moment I could walk like
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I didn't have a crazy like some I mean,
Speaker 1: like I knew when he when my mom and dad
Speaker 1: had Christmas parties for their Gold's gym, like things would
Speaker 1: get a little crazy, but we always had to go
Speaker 1: back to our room, so it wasn't with the adults. Man,
Speaker 1: that's like a rule. Nothing I mean did it was
Speaker 1: weird like different, like, oh my dad's a lawyer, Oh
Speaker 1: my dad's a wrestler, like I mean it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it impacted me that because it was my whole life.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything different. Maybe if my dad had
Speaker 1: had me in that scene, then yeah, but I wasn't,
Speaker 1: you know. I think it's one of the interesting parts
Speaker 1: about you is a lot of people don't really know
Speaker 1: You've done such a great job of keeping your privacy,
Speaker 1: like you're out there, but you're not out there. You
Speaker 1: can you make sure that you keep your privacy But
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know. I think you want to.
Speaker 1: You know, you went to college and play volleyball app state, right,
Speaker 1: but yet you're this bona fide superstar, right, like you said,
Speaker 1: crazy athletic. But and I'm assuming and guessing just based
Speaker 1: off the conversation and a little bit I know about
Speaker 1: you that you're also very quiet, and you keep to yourself,
Speaker 1: and you you are sometimes overthinker, right, you're thinking and
Speaker 1: and and listening. But people don't really have a great
Speaker 1: sense outside of your circle have grace sense how complex
Speaker 1: and how layered you are and what you present to
Speaker 1: and what you bring to the table because of you
Speaker 1: do such a good job of kind of keeping that
Speaker 1: close to the vest. That's a yeah, well my circle small. Um.
Speaker 1: There's a writer for the company that I'm I'm close
Speaker 1: to that I've worked with for like seven or eight years,
Speaker 1: and he's like Charlotte, sometimes you have to turn off.
Speaker 1: So it's m Mike. I built this character that I
Speaker 1: wanted to be in my personal life. But like it's
Speaker 1: so like m my persona is so different than like
Speaker 1: really who I am? Like do I am? I proud
Speaker 1: of my achievements in my athleticism, Yeah, but too constantly,
Speaker 1: like my character tries to be perfect all the time,
Speaker 1: which I am so disheveled in my real life. Like
Speaker 1: I don't like all I enjoy is like going to
Speaker 1: nice steakhouses with my friends, Like I'm not It's it's
Speaker 1: too different. Yeah, like the confidence and the independence and
Speaker 1: the game changing and what I've tried to stand for.
Speaker 1: And I guess we're not supposed to say professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: but in sports entertainment as a whole. Um, I I
Speaker 1: just care about being the best in that, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of just I put so I don't know how
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I mean, I don't know how it's to
Speaker 1: say it. You put all You're so driven, you put
Speaker 1: all your eggs in that basket that everything else sometimes
Speaker 1: gently gets a little bit neglected. Mm hmm. I'm just
Speaker 1: speaking from personal experience, so I'm just saying like it does.
Speaker 1: And then last year I've spent more I mean obviously
Speaker 1: with COVID and not being able to perform. It was
Speaker 1: the first time I wasn't on the road, um since
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, So that was like, what do
Speaker 1: I like to do. It's the same. What did you so,
Speaker 1: what did you discover yourself? You got a lot of
Speaker 1: time during the pandemic to spend with yourself. What what
Speaker 1: what new hobbies did you start? If you say knitting,
Speaker 1: we're done. No nothing. I mean, but um, my fiance
Speaker 1: and I built a gym in our garage. But I
Speaker 1: love working out. This is this is my favorite part. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk ball. Let's just talk talk wrestling. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you have any memorable matches that you're that your
Speaker 1: dad of Vader? Um. I was gonna say Vader, but
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I gotta I gotta pull off
Speaker 1: something that's more. He was, Yeah, Starcade made it up
Speaker 1: when um he retired in Orlando against Shawn Michaels. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this story, but I
Speaker 1: was doing the event one time and Rick was at
Speaker 1: the event and I bought his rope. So he told
Speaker 1: me to tell you that he had to do the
Speaker 1: forty niners thing because we had Wrestlemanby in there. Yes
Speaker 1: about fresh rope for like, this is awesome, wrong, put it?
Speaker 1: I have put on absolutely it's about to be a
Speaker 1: backstage about to come. It does that. One of the
Speaker 1: reason why is there's not a picture. Rick is not
Speaker 1: extremely tall, but I'm not extremely short. However, that the
Speaker 1: whole makes me feel a little bit of conferma side.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit too big. It's got a whole
Speaker 1: like train and stuff in nature. You gotta get your
Speaker 1: nature boy on nature Boy not I feel like the
Speaker 1: little nature boy. I mean, you got a stile and
Speaker 1: profile and that bad boy. It's slout stover Man. It
Speaker 1: looks like, yes, it does, like Steve little Nature boys
Speaker 1: Smith Senior. It's so huge, like it's it's a great ensemble,
Speaker 1: hand stitched bro. It's like a it's literally like my
Speaker 1: Daddy's like my broadpaws. It's just huge and I feel
Speaker 1: so I'm feel so small. Social media got to put
Speaker 1: like your face on top of like I brought it
Speaker 1: and it was cool and then you know, and then
Speaker 1: you know, I think I had a glass or two
Speaker 1: at the event. It was a good idea. It was
Speaker 1: a great idea, and I saw another and I got
Speaker 1: like a couple of days later I put it on.
Speaker 1: I said, my wife goes, where are you gonna wear that?
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. So big, Oh, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm five nine. I'm not five eight. I'm not five ten.
Speaker 1: I am five nine. It's hious. It makes me feel
Speaker 1: I didn't know you had it. I'm now I'm impressed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bought it as nice. They wanted me to wear, Jake,
Speaker 1: So when I bought it, we were still playing back
Speaker 1: in the day, so Jake was like, man, you should
Speaker 1: wear the robe coming out of the tunnel. One day,
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it even with my pats still too big. Yes,
Speaker 1: you tried it on with your pads, yes, and I'm
Speaker 1: still little nature boy. Alright, No, not a little nature boy.
Speaker 1: She's pretty. Let me the first time. All right, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's transition to something else. Please. So how physical and
Speaker 1: mentally mentally demanding is becoming a w w W E
Speaker 1: superstar like yourself? It has to become your life because
Speaker 1: you're on the road more when you are at home. Um,
Speaker 1: you're always having to evolve. You're not just you know,
Speaker 1: an athlete in the ring. You're you're an actor. You're
Speaker 1: an athlete, you're a public speaker, you're I mean, anything
Speaker 1: that they need you to be any given day, whether
Speaker 1: it's appearances, commercials, shows, Um, like the travel all over
Speaker 1: the world. I mean sometimes you're not home for a
Speaker 1: month at a time. Wow, it's crazy. There's no there's
Speaker 1: no there's no off season in wrestling unless you're hurt.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you recover in a sport
Speaker 1: that has no off season? You're just tough a sell.
Speaker 1: Unless something you know, like someone gets injured, you usually
Speaker 1: don't have an off season. And depending on your storyline,
Speaker 1: whether you're in the title picture or not in the
Speaker 1: title picture where your own pay per views, Uh, it's um.
Speaker 1: I don't think the general public really understands all what
Speaker 1: goes into sports entertainment. Like I'm the biggest advocate trying
Speaker 1: to explain just how hard it is, like live television
Speaker 1: every single week, live television. You know, obviously for myself,
Speaker 1: I do analysts work on live television, so I can
Speaker 1: understand that. But doing live television and using your athleticism
Speaker 1: and you're solo, like you know, playing ball is easy
Speaker 1: because you know left tackle miss is a block that
Speaker 1: the next play you can you can you can do
Speaker 1: a double team slide left. There's there's there's ways to
Speaker 1: help you know if the pump returner that the team
Speaker 1: is kicking to is really really good, you just kick
Speaker 1: it out of time. It's a team sport. It's a
Speaker 1: team sport. You your team is there, but they're not
Speaker 1: actually in the sport. If it goes hey in the
Speaker 1: hay basket in the ring, you have to figure it
Speaker 1: off like it's on you. But so it's a team sport,
Speaker 1: but it's not like you want to look better than
Speaker 1: your opponent. No matter if you're the good guy or
Speaker 1: the bad guy, you're still like, hey, this is my body.
Speaker 1: I'm relying on you to take care of me, Like
Speaker 1: you have to have that trust within the ring um.
Speaker 1: But it's like while you're trying to look good, tell
Speaker 1: a story, whether you're good bad, listening to the audience,
Speaker 1: changing depending on how the audience is reacting. And then
Speaker 1: you have segments and TV commercials and cutaways, and you're
Speaker 1: dealing with the times while trying to tell a story
Speaker 1: and beating someone up and yeah, people don't really understand
Speaker 1: tactics and training and mental and physical where on your body,
Speaker 1: and and then living out of hotels, airbnbs four months,
Speaker 1: getting in the air planes, buck Covid, I'm just just
Speaker 1: just regular life that you are experiencing. That me as
Speaker 1: a customer, you're just tuning on the TV. I just
Speaker 1: turned on TV. I don't see who wins. But you
Speaker 1: have no like like Charlotte said, the general public has
Speaker 1: no idea. I think what all goes on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I think more of anything is as a consumer and
Speaker 1: also understanding the business of sports. A lot of fanatics
Speaker 1: slash fans don't even care. No, they don't. They really
Speaker 1: don't see that. You can see that from the team
Speaker 1: sports side, they don't. They don't really care that, you know.
Speaker 1: And I used to always say before I go out,
Speaker 1: if I accept the jurgy, I gotta show up the
Speaker 1: fanes in the top row or the faintness in the suite,
Speaker 1: whether it's a thousand dollar ticket or filet dollar ticket.
Speaker 1: They don't care if your pop is sick. They don't
Speaker 1: care if your grandmother or your grandfather has cancer. They
Speaker 1: honestly don't give a crap the show. And that's I think.
Speaker 1: As a performer, athlete, whatever you want to label yourself as,
Speaker 1: that's the hard part. Knowing that the show goes on
Speaker 1: with or without you. I know that is for me
Speaker 1: as a performer, I think it's about that time just
Speaker 1: take a little breather. Good. Do it good, do good.
Speaker 1: Let's get down, do it good. Hey Gerard, why did
Speaker 1: you get that tea shirt? You mean this thing? Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I got it from cut to a podcast dot com
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Speaker 1: buy you a T shirt, subscribe to us wherever you
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. One of the toughest things mentally for
Speaker 1: me that just going into talking ball and mental health
Speaker 1: is when you got injured, it almost felt like punishment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you almost you almost was like banished. You know, like
Speaker 1: if you had crutches. There was a thing in the
Speaker 1: locker room like don't touch the crutches, right, don't you
Speaker 1: know if you're an injured don't touch the crutches. You
Speaker 1: know you're because you're have crutches, or you're a little
Speaker 1: bit hobbled, or you're late, you have treatment, you come
Speaker 1: in late, you or you come in early. It was
Speaker 1: this kind of like like like Charlotte says that the
Speaker 1: show must go on, and you feel like you're on
Speaker 1: island or you are because people people they don't say
Speaker 1: it and tell me if I'm wrong with this or that.
Speaker 1: They don't say it, but it does kind of come
Speaker 1: across their like better hurt in me or better him
Speaker 1: than me. I mean I need it that way. And
Speaker 1: I know people generally, like your fellow co workers, feel bad,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, like, that's a spot that's open,
Speaker 1: that's an opportunity. Now it's an opportunity. Um well, I
Speaker 1: missed WrestleMania this year due to COVID. I got it
Speaker 1: in March and they were nervous that I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: okay in time for WrestleMania and Tampa, so they immediately
Speaker 1: took me out and replaced me with another girl. And
Speaker 1: I like, I mean, it crushed me. Like I work
Speaker 1: every year for WrestleMania. Like, after WrestleMania, I'm already thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's I mean, that's been my I mean, it is
Speaker 1: our super Bowl. But to me, it's just something that
Speaker 1: or the show that I've always shined the most on.
Speaker 1: I mean, so when they replace me, you know, she's thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I mean, I'm sad. I'm sad that Charlotte
Speaker 1: has COVID, but now I'm going to Wrestlemaniasia. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it yeah, but sometimes like that's you have to
Speaker 1: look at it all comes full circle, like if something
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, it's a break for whoever that opponent is
Speaker 1: that gets to come in. And she's like it all
Speaker 1: works out right, give and take in a male dominant sport,
Speaker 1: How tough has it been for you, for yourself and
Speaker 1: other women to get the get the just dude that
Speaker 1: you women deserve? So I think, because I don't know.
Speaker 1: When I started in two thousand and two, well and
Speaker 1: here I am today. I was scared of performing. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a character. I didn't know how to wrestle.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I did believe is in myself.
Speaker 1: And I'd watch these guys even though I had no
Speaker 1: idea what went into a match or what went into
Speaker 1: a character. I just would watch and I go, well,
Speaker 1: I could do that, Well, I can do that. Well
Speaker 1: I can do that. I can do that. And then
Speaker 1: we'd have blow up drills or conditioning drills in the ring,
Speaker 1: and there was nothing in my mind that would be like,
Speaker 1: well these guys are better than me. No, you're not.
Speaker 1: You have a character, Yes I don't, you're better performing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do a match. But like
Speaker 1: there is nothing like I just I never had that
Speaker 1: mindset that they were better than me. It just took
Speaker 1: me a long time to figure out. Not a long time,
Speaker 1: but it took me time to to figure out, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do I have a stage presence? And then they
Speaker 1: told me, well, you can't woo, you can't do anything
Speaker 1: like your dad. And then a year later, okay, you
Speaker 1: can come out to your dad's music and your dad
Speaker 1: your manager. Like it was me just figuring out, yeah,
Speaker 1: how to be a star. That's what I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to be a star. I wasn't polished.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to carry myself like I knew
Speaker 1: the in between and the footwork and the conditioning. That
Speaker 1: was what I think. Kept like, that's what how do
Speaker 1: I say it? That's why I progressed so fast. But
Speaker 1: when I started in an x T there were three
Speaker 1: other girls that I came up with um and we
Speaker 1: just were like, we're gonna steal the show. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have the best match on the card. Like we just
Speaker 1: had this mindset and just fed off of each other.
Speaker 1: And then in two thousand and fifteen on Raw, when
Speaker 1: the hashtag give divas a chance started trending from a
Speaker 1: man with these women, Isabella's Nicky Bree Page and Emma
Speaker 1: I believe it was the four of them started trending
Speaker 1: because their match was cut short and I could be
Speaker 1: I I might be missing a name. I know A
Speaker 1: j Lee was a part of something too, don't quote me.
Speaker 1: But they started to give women more opportunities, and then
Speaker 1: when my group of girls debuted, I just kept thinking, like, well,
Speaker 1: if I can main event an x T, I can
Speaker 1: main event a pay per view on rour SmackDown, Okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm going to main event Wrestlemanian. I just kept
Speaker 1: saying it and saying and saying it, like so it's
Speaker 1: just mindset is everything, I guess ultimately is what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say, and I never Uh, it's male dominated, yes,
Speaker 1: but that just makes me want to be that much better. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's male dominated, but no one's looking at my work
Speaker 1: because I'm a hot girl. They're going, well, Charlotte Russell
Speaker 1: like a guy, and that's what I try to do.
Speaker 1: Like no one's going, oh, that's a great female wrestler. No,
Speaker 1: I'm a great wrestler. Nice. Who were your who were
Speaker 1: the female influences in the business back then, and maybe
Speaker 1: who are who are those influences now? She's side of yourself.
Speaker 1: She's one of those influences, I would say, outside of yourself,
Speaker 1: outside of myself. Um, well, definitely the women that I
Speaker 1: came up with page Uh, Emma her stage name is
Speaker 1: Emma Anymore, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, Bailey, Natalia. Was this
Speaker 1: group of women that I came up with. Um, And
Speaker 1: was there anyone you looked to before? Um? I mean
Speaker 1: I really liked Tory Wilson, Michelle McCool, Kelly Kelly, Um,
Speaker 1: Molly Holly, China, But it's I didn't really know the
Speaker 1: business then, so I just looked at like all these
Speaker 1: women are so beautiful. Like that's always why I thought
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't be a w W superstar because the
Speaker 1: women are coming out in bikinis or they were just
Speaker 1: they were just so glamorous. I played sports my whole life.
Speaker 1: I was more of like a tomboy, not until I
Speaker 1: started wrestling, so like, oh, this is how I did
Speaker 1: my makeup? Like, well, I just didn't. I just was
Speaker 1: so I couldn't picture myself. I think that's why I
Speaker 1: just couldn't put your myself in that role. But when
Speaker 1: I figured it out, like, no, being dominant and independent
Speaker 1: and confident in a male dominated world is what makes
Speaker 1: you sexy. It's not you know, the glitz and the
Speaker 1: glam like me being like Charlotte, being Charlotte and as
Speaker 1: good as she the character is, that's what makes her,
Speaker 1: you know, Adiva, mhm, do you prefer to be the hero? No,
Speaker 1: I'm the villain, my friend? WHOA why are you the villain? Um?
Speaker 1: Because everyone thinks I am. So if you think I
Speaker 1: am that, I'm gonna be that. Mhm. I just want
Speaker 1: to give you just want to get people what they want. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not giving them what they want, but
Speaker 1: if you are, if they already have that assumption of you,
Speaker 1: then fine. Because like when I first started, I was like,
Speaker 1: why do you why? Like why why do the fans
Speaker 1: not like me? Like, yes, I look like my dad, duh,
Speaker 1: he's my fun works God, she looks like Rick. Well,
Speaker 1: no ship her. And then they'd be like, oh, she's
Speaker 1: only here because she's Rick's daughter, or um, she's only
Speaker 1: given these opportunities because she's Ricks. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's so easy and then I'm like, wait, I'm five tin,
Speaker 1: I'm athletic, and I'm blonde. Oh that's terrible. I guess okay,
Speaker 1: Like I just it was really hard, like I didn't
Speaker 1: have the like the issues growing up or in my
Speaker 1: early twenties, but then when I started to realize what
Speaker 1: my dad meant to the industry, and then it's like
Speaker 1: it the double standard is crazy. But if I didn't
Speaker 1: have it, or if it if it wasn't there, if
Speaker 1: I didn't have the chip on my shoulder, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'd be as good as I am today because
Speaker 1: it's constantly like I have to prove you wrong, like
Speaker 1: I'm here because I'm that good, Like I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to say, like my dad didn't put in the miles
Speaker 1: or the bumps like I have the last but if
Speaker 1: any I mean it's I would never I wouldn't change
Speaker 1: it for anything. Now. I don't wish it upon anybody,
Speaker 1: because being a legacy or being a generation kid is hard. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, come on, bring
Speaker 1: that challenge. I always tell my kids that your last
Speaker 1: name will get you in the door, but if you
Speaker 1: don't have the hard work that last name to get
Speaker 1: you out the door. I passed the torch. I took it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's that's the standard. Like you being a flair.
Speaker 1: When you hear flair, you hear you know, obviously you
Speaker 1: put it towards longevity, you put it towards flair, you
Speaker 1: put it towards flamboyant. So you also put it towards um, athleticism,
Speaker 1: moxie and the standard. Yeah. Standard, But then you got
Speaker 1: that for the second generation or for for a family name.
Speaker 1: Your name can't be the only thing that keeps you
Speaker 1: there because that's only gonna that's only gonna last so long, right,
Speaker 1: And just reading off all of your championships, all of
Speaker 1: the stuff that you have. Let's see Women's Champion, Raw
Speaker 1: Women's Champion, w w E Champion, Women's Champion, excuse me,
Speaker 1: Diva's Champion, Women's Royal Rumber, Women's Royal Rumble match winner.
Speaker 1: Say that's seventeen times fast, and next Women's Champion and
Speaker 1: the w w E Women's Tag Team Champion. Do we
Speaker 1: leave anything off as as a triple crown winner, not
Speaker 1: a triple crown champion like yourself. I see what you
Speaker 1: did there, right? What what is what is next for
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair. You, I mean some of these champions five times,
Speaker 1: like the SmackDown World Women's Championship a record five times.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're only going to be able to so long.
Speaker 1: You got to accomplish something else. So that's when you
Speaker 1: asked me, like, what what hobbies did I find during COVID.
Speaker 1: I think for me, like in this moment, I didn't
Speaker 1: come this far to come this far, Like I always
Speaker 1: want to evolve and get better in the ring, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is next? Like I had no idea,
Speaker 1: Like I was scared of my own shadow, Like I
Speaker 1: was timid girl from Charlotte who was just personal training,
Speaker 1: uh loss. And then here I am like I first
Speaker 1: woman of main event WrestleMania. Like I don't even care
Speaker 1: about the championships. It's the equality, the gender equality, and
Speaker 1: that we're all superstars were not divas and male superstars
Speaker 1: were all the same. Um. I just to me, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is next? And it's trying to find what's next
Speaker 1: because I would have never in a million years believed
Speaker 1: this was going to be my life. So if I
Speaker 1: can come, I mean, it's just where do I go
Speaker 1: from here? I don't want that just to be it
Speaker 1: Like it was kind of like, oh, you've made evented WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: You may invented Helena, so you may have been in
Speaker 1: pay per views Raw SmackDown. You have all these titles
Speaker 1: like what else do you want? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: What else do I want? Like why can't I not
Speaker 1: want more? And I should want more? Like I want
Speaker 1: to made in the wrestle Mania again. You you stated
Speaker 1: that you were a personal trainer. What made you come
Speaker 1: to the realization that you want to become a a wrestler.
Speaker 1: When I graduated two thousand and ten, UM, for like
Speaker 1: two years, my brother app off and on with me.
Speaker 1: UM and he had a really bad drug addiction and
Speaker 1: he had been wrestling the independent scene trying to make
Speaker 1: a name for himself and wanted to get into w
Speaker 1: w E UM, I mean he just I mean my
Speaker 1: dad was his idol, Like he just wanted to be
Speaker 1: the next Rid Flare. Um. So on two thousand and twelve,
Speaker 1: we were in Miami for WrestleMania and me, my little brother,
Speaker 1: and my dad and a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Johnny Laurnitis who was the talent hire e at the time.
Speaker 1: We were all sitting at dinner, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if my dad had said something to Johnny like, hey,
Speaker 1: ask my real name is Ashley, asked Ashley, you know,
Speaker 1: why isn't she doing this? But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was like more too like upset my brother to
Speaker 1: get him more motivated or to get him on the
Speaker 1: right path. So Johnny at dinner was like, so are
Speaker 1: you doing this, kid, and his like graspy voice, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. And this was in
Speaker 1: April of two thousand and twelve, and the next thing
Speaker 1: I know, I'm like, sure, I'll do it. Like what wait,
Speaker 1: I have to move to Florida. Wait, what am I
Speaker 1: doing wrestling? What huh? And the process kept going. So
Speaker 1: the talent, another guy by the name of Canyon Sieman,
Speaker 1: called me, and then Triple H called me and he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, just because we're letting you in
Speaker 1: doesn't mean or we're giving you this opportunity. Is I
Speaker 1: mean we're going to give you reads opportunity to read
Speaker 1: an opportunity. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. So
Speaker 1: I showed up in July of two thousand and twelve,
Speaker 1: and then when my brother died a year later, Um,
Speaker 1: I just dedicated everything to him because I feel like
Speaker 1: I spent so much time wanting his life to be
Speaker 1: better that ultimately he made mine better. Mhm. So yeah,
Speaker 1: like he live to breathe dreamed professional wrestling, and like
Speaker 1: the people were so mean to him, obviously being Ric
Speaker 1: Flair's son. So I think, to this day, I take
Speaker 1: it so serious because it's like I wish I could
Speaker 1: take all those critics away from him, you know, like
Speaker 1: that criticism like that must have eating him alive, like
Speaker 1: it eats me alive. But I'm somehow able to control it.
Speaker 1: Not control. I mean, yeah, I have my bad days,
Speaker 1: but I like, I just wish I could take all
Speaker 1: that pain away from him at that time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so here I am. And it's because of my little brother. Mhm.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. And thanks for sharing it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I appreciate that vulnerability. And even even when
Speaker 1: you mentioned bad days, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: keep up? How do you preserve your own mental health?
Speaker 1: I work harder in wrestling. Um, I just have to
Speaker 1: remember that people don't know me, like, and then again
Speaker 1: it plays into the whole bad guy thing because I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's you know that saying it's like, no matter what
Speaker 1: I do, like I don't have to prove anything anymore,
Speaker 1: and just remind myself that mm hmm. Man, I don't
Speaker 1: know if hold on it out, I don't know this
Speaker 1: sounds easier said, It's been a pleasure to talk to.
Speaker 1: You really enjoyed it, Charlotte, Steve, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks guy, I appreciate it. You are a unique person.
Speaker 1: You are well worth it, you are competent and most
Speaker 1: of all, your lovable. I'm Steve Smith Singer, I'm Gerard
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