Charlotte Flair Before WrestleMania 42

Charlotte Flair drops in on No Contest Wrestling with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson the week of WrestleMania 42. Ninth rodeo. Two-time Royal Rumble winner. Grand Slam champion. Fourteen-time world champion. She walks in off the plane in Vegas and says the Mania week grind feels like a walk in the park at this point.

Flair opens with the story she has told in pieces before and tells here with fuller stakes. Wrestling was never her dream. It was her younger brother Reed's. In 2012, at the Four Horsemen Hall of Fame induction, a WWE producer at dinner looked at her and asked why she was not doing it. The dinner was actually about getting Reed into the company. Three months later, Charlotte reported to FCW. Eight months into her training, Reed passed away from a drug-related struggle. She has dedicated her career to him. The line she keeps coming back to is that she spent years trying to save her brother, and he ended up saving her with this dream.

The conversation turns to being second generation, the exact wheelhouse O'Shea wanted with a guest. Flair shares a quote a wrestler told her. Women make friends face to face. Men make friends shoulder to shoulder. She then flips the second-generation question. She did not feel pressure. She felt guilt. No tryouts. No indie grind. No last dollar spent on a seminar. So she leaned on the one thing she knew, which was conditioning. She could outwork anyone in the room, even when she did not yet know what a proper bump was.

Her Ric Flair perspective is honest. She is still Ric Flair's daughter. He is not Charlotte's dad. That used to bother her. Now she takes it as a compliment because staying that timeless is incredible. O'Shea nods along, saying he went through the same thing being Ice Cube's son. College was when it clicked for both of them that their fathers meant something to strangers.

Flair walks through her NXT breakthrough match against Natalya for the Women's Championship, the longest WWE women's match produced to that point. That night opened every door. She talks about Lodestone, Bayley's wrestling camp, and the group of young women coming up through it who will test her soon enough. She also defends Bayley's role in the company, agreeing with the hosts that the three-time Grand Slam champion deserves more hardware.

She previews the WrestleMania 42 women's tag team title match. Fatal four-way. Charlotte and Alexa Bliss. Bayley and Lyra Valkyria. The Bella Twins. Champions Nia Jax and Lash Legend. Flair calls it the most stacked women's fatal four-way Mania has ever seen. Past, present, future in one match. She also drops that Cody Rhodes named her in his top five WrestleMania performers of all time on Get Up that morning. She texted him. It meant a lot.

The hosts close by plugging the Friday ESPN2 WrestleMania pre-show they are hosting in Las Vegas, and Charlotte promises to wear her Kobe tank top.