“Your brother didn’t have a lot of fight in him” – When Paige namedropped Charlotte Flair’s deceased brother on Television


“Your brother didn’t have a lot of fight in him” – When Paige namedropped Charlotte Flair’s deceased brother on Television

Paige crossed the limits while mentioning Charlotte's dead brother during a promo in 2015

Sensitive real-life incidents sparks controversy. During the time of late 2015, Paige and Charlotte Flair were two of the best female wrestlers on the entire Divas division. They were piping in gas on every cylinders as they crossed paths with each other over the coveted Divas Championship around November.

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Charlotte Flair was the reigning Divas Champion holding her prestigious title with much pride. She was set to defend her Divas Championship against British Diva, Paige at Survivor Series. The two women met for a contract singing to sign on the dotted line inorder to make their Championship bout official for the upcoming Pay-Per-View during an episode of Monday Night Raw dated November 16, 2015.

During the contract signing, Charlotte Flair delivered an emotional promo regarding her and Paige’s journey to being there as well as she recalled her late brother Reid during the segment saying that if it wasn’t for him, she wouldn’t even be there. Paige however wasn’t impressed with the so-called speech Charlotte delivered in front of the entire WWE Universe as she started insulting the Divas Champion and her deceased brother. He dropped a gut-wrenching statement saying, “Your brother didn’t have a lot of fight in him” which enraged Flair as she jumped over Paige and started attacking her recklessly.

That controversial name brought-up caused a massive brawl to breakout between the two as they went berserk in and out of the ring. Following the segment got over, the Paige’s controversial remarks over mentioning Charlotte’s late Brother sparked off string for negative remarks for Paige as many believed that the namedrop wasn’t required at all and that being such a personal statement for the entire Flair family.

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This incident quickly made Paige fell in eyes of some fans as they were heavily disappointed by the words of the Diva. Although, on Sunday at the Survivor Series Pay-Per-View event Paige lost to Charlotte Flair via submission and Flair retained her Divas Championship successfully.

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Were the controversial remarks of Paige pre-planned?

Paige on Charlotte Flair
Paige and Charlotte Flair delivered an incredible rivalry back in the day

The biggest question coming out of the infamous contract signing segment was whether that line about Charlotte’s brother scripted in any way or was the toll totally upto Paige for bringing that out.

Few years later, former WWE creative writer Tom Cassiello took the curtains off the real truth as he went onto reveal the exact mind behind that infamous line-drop of Charlotte’s brother and to an utter shock, Charlotte Flair herself was revealed as the origin of that over everyone.

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The former lead writer made his appearance on The Agenda Podcast where he disclosed various things including the Women’s revolution. It was during this very interview where he said Charlotte pitched that idea of bringing her real- life tragedy inorder to heat up her ongoing rivalry with Paige.

Thankfully it was because if this revelation that Paige got free from all of the disparaging comments being made about her as a human being for bringing up a deceased person’s matter to blew up the storyline.

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