Charlotte Flair's big win in the 2025 Women's Royal Rumble match should have sparked widespread celebration — but instead became the subject of online hate. Here's why Flair's record-setting win has made so many WWE fans angry.
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00:00Charlotte Flair's big win in the 2025 Women's Royal Rumble match should have sparked widespread
00:06celebration, but instead became the subject of online hate. Here's why Flair's record-setting
00:11win has made so many WWE fans angry.
00:15After over a year off of WWE programming and weeks of video promos, Charlotte Flair entered
00:21the 2025 Women's Royal Rumble in the desirable 27th spot. Flair scored four eliminations
00:27in Piper Niven, Meechan, Nia Jax, and runner-up Roxanne Perez. Despite her multiple eliminations,
00:34fans all across social media — from mainstream platforms like X to wrestling sites like Cage
00:38Match — credited other competitors as more deserving victors.
00:42EO Sky and Jax were among the names mentioned by social media users as more believable Royal
00:47Rumble victors, with fans signaling their performances as more meaningful in the overall
00:52match than Flair's.
00:54One X user wrote,
00:55EO Sky came in at number one, lasted the entire Rumble just for Charlotte Flair to
01:00return last second and win the whole thing. One search on social media will provide no
01:04shortage of frustrated posts about. Another X user reposted that tweet and highlighted
01:09the series of eliminations Jax had just prior to Flair's victory. Jax's proclaimed killing
01:14spree saw her enter the match two spots later than Flair, at number 29, and score a whopping
01:20eight eliminations, including one against WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus. To see Flair
01:25take the victory after a nothing less than dominant performance from Jax was brutal to
01:30witness, according to some fans on social media.
01:33Now I can be more in the moment when I'm in the ring, and I think that matters so much
01:38more as a performer."
01:39Many pointed out Flair's status as a legacy wrestler, with many referencing her prestigious
01:44lineage in their nepotism claims. One user made their thoughts succinctly known, pairing
01:49their claim of Flair's nepotism-fueled victory with a gif of Roman Reigns turning off a television.
01:55Fans also seemed exhausted of Flair's dominance over WWE's women's division, which was displayed
02:00in full force with her swift Royal Rumble victory. Countless posts called her underperforming
02:06victory boring, and even more posts adorned their critical takes with videos of sarcastic,
02:11unsatisfied humans and sleeping animals.
02:14One fan on social media even compared Flair's performance to that of former WWE star Brock
02:19Lesnar, who has been heavily criticized for his overexposure and overdominance.
02:24However, Flair's criticisms are not just limited to X. On Wrestling World CC's post announcing
02:30Flair's victory, all of the top comments complained that she had won. Some commenters noted the
02:36inconsistencies between Alexa Bliss and Flair's return, with most of them claiming that, while
02:41the crowd was behind Bliss, WWE's production team attempted to inflate the importance of
02:46Flair's return with pyrotechnics.
02:48Comments of Flair are few and far between, but they are vocal about their support for
02:52the queen. One fan of Flair taunted her plentiful detractors, and as of early February 2025,
02:59their post has garnered over 10,000 views. The fan wrote on X,
03:03"'When are y'all going to learn? The more you hate Charlotte Flair, the more successful
03:07she becomes.'"
03:09Despite the occasional message of support, fans on social media remain either irate or
03:14exhausted with Flair's underwhelming performance and victory. One Cage Match reviewer wrote
03:19this summary,
03:20"'Charlotte. Then we get to Charlotte.'"
03:22Look in the comments of any single post WWE made about her return or her winning. We did
03:27not want her to win. We don't want her back. She did not earn another opportunity.