Charlotte Speaks About Her Move to "Smackdown" and Other Things

Woo indeed. One of the biggest moves of last week’s Superstar Shakeup saw Charlotte move over to “Smackdown Live” to head up its women’s division. Charlotte instantly became the top star on the blue show, but it might be interesting to see what she thought of the move. As luck would have it, we can now do just that.

Charlotte recently spoke about the move with the Sporting News. Here are a few highlights.

On her initial thoughts:

“I can’t speak for the other women on ‘Raw’ or ‘SmackDown’ but I know, for myself, personally, the minute I left ‘Raw’ Monday night I said to myself ‘SmackDown’ is the women’s division that you’re gonna want to be on. That’s my mindset. Yes, competition is in full effect because that’s kind of the point of having two brands.”

As for being reunited with best friend Becky Lynch:

“In this line of work, you have a ton of friends and you’re all family but Becky was basically my rock. With the heel transition and then we ended up having the match at Royal Rumble (in 2016), we pretty much grew together as talent and came into our own. Then all of a sudden the draft happened. Not only am I excited to be back with my travel partner but to see how much we’ve grown as talent and to have the opportunity to face each other again as polished talent. We were just scratching the surface when we had that match at Royal Rumble and then we had the three-way (at WrestleMania 32 in Dallas) and then it was over.”

And on how she knew she belonged in WWE.

“I had a couple of singles matches and I still wasn’t sure of myself. I wasn’t even sure if they were doing the right thing. I was just extremely nervous and Nattie just looked at me and said, ‘let’s do this’. Then when I won the title, it gave me the confidence that I needed. That’s when I knew I was doing the right thing and I belonged but in terms of a performer, even when I got on the main roster and had the run as a babyface when I first started with Nikki Bella, I was still like ‘I gotta get better, I gotta get better’. But I would say when I was with Nattie is when I thought this is where I belong.”

You can read the full interview here.

Opinion: Charlotte only started wrestling five years ago and she’s already on the short list of all time greats. She comes off like someone who knows she’s better than anyone else, looks like she was carved out of a rock and is one of the most athletic performers in the company today. Charlotte is going to be a big deal in WWE as long as she wants to be, which hopefully is for a very long time.