Charlotte on Her Wrestlemania Match with Asuka, Entrance Plans, and More

Barstool Sports held a recent interview with Charlotte discussing her Smackdown Women’s Championship match against Asuka, her entrance plans for Wrestlemania 34, and more.

On the topic of missing last week’s episode of Smackdown due to dental surgery, Charlotte stated she is currently feeling fine and WWE simply kept her off of television as a precaution even though she was medically cleared to wrestle.

“I’m good. They just kept me off TV because it was so swollen and I was talking funny from the stitches. They cleared me to wrestle, but I just looked a mess. So, I’ll be back next week.”

On the topic of her upcoming Smackdown Women’s Championship match against Asuka at Wrestlemania 34, Charlotte stated she was kept in the dark regarding her Wrestlemania plans until last month’s Fastlane event.

“[At the Royal Rumble] I was standing there hoping that everyone in ‘Gorilla’ or the writing team watching going, ‘She has to pick me. I’m the only logical pick. She has to pick me!’ and then Ronda [Rousey’s] music hits, and I’m like, ‘No, she still has to pick me’ because I wanted to face Asuka that bad and I didn’t know. I didn’t know – I kind of heard rumblings – but I didn’t know for sure until Fastlane.”

While discussing more about Asuka, Charlotte praised Asuka for the amount of respect wrestling fans worldwide have shown towards her. She also stated their match at Wrestlemania will be very special due to it being the first ever singles match against each other.

“She has so much respect from the WWE Universe and fans worldwide, and she’s different. For me it’s more because I’ve never faced her. No one’s even seen a singles, a tag, nothing from NXT. I mean, we have never crossed paths and that is very special in our industry. Because, I mean, you’ve at least wrestled once, right? How have we never touched?”

On the topic of her Wrestlemania entrance gear, Charlotte stated her Wrestlemania 34 entrance gear will be inspired by the costume she wore for Triple H’s entrance at Wrestlemania 30.

“My gear is always very much the same shape, but the robe and the entire look is very much inspired from Triple H’s [WrestleMania 30] entrance.”

Other topics discussed included her father Ric Flair and which matches she is looking forward to watch at Wrestlemania 34.