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Who Is Charlotte Flair ? Read More About Her

Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr was born in April 5, 1986, better known by her ring name Charlotte Flair, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand where she is the WWE Raw Women’s Champion in her record sixth reign.

She is a second generation professional wrestler, being the daughter of Ric Flair. In 2012, she began training with WWE, and debuted in NXT in 2013. In 2014, she was named Rookie of the Year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI), and was promoted to WWE’s main roster in 2015. Flair won the Divas Championship, the NXT Women’s Championship twice, the Raw Women’s Championship a record six times (to which she is the inaugural champion), and the SmackDown Women’s Championship a record five times. She also won the Women’s Tag Team Championship, thus becoming a Triple Crown Champion and a Grand Slam Champion. Flair also won the Royal Rumble match in 2020. All totaled, Flair has won 14 women’s singles championships and is recognized as a 12 time women’s world champion by WWE (who do not consider the NXT Women’s title to be a “world” title), and 15 total championships in WWE when including her Women’s Tag Team Championship reign with Asuka.

In 2016, PWI readers voted Flair Woman of the Year and Top Female Professional Wrestler. She became the first female to headline a WWE pay-per-view event in October 2016 (alongside Sasha Banks), and one of three women to headline WrestleMania for the first time, WWE’s flagship annual event, in 2019 (alongside Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey).

Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 5, 1986, to Ric Flair and his then-wife Elizabeth Harrell. She has an older half-sister, Megan, and an older half-brother, David, while her younger brother Reid died on March 29, 2013. Fliehr won two NCHSAA 4 A-State championships for volleyball during her time at Providence High School and was team captain and player of the year in 2004–2005. She attended Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, playing volleyball in the 2005 and 2006 seasons before transferring to North Carolina State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in public relations in Spring 2008 while also being a certified personal trainer prior to becoming a wrestler.

Flair was ringside for the December 6, 2004, episode of Raw in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, where Lita and Trish Stratus competed in the main event for the WWE Women’s Championship. Almost 12 years later, on October 3, 2016, Flair herself and rival Sasha Banks would do the same, marking only the third time a Women’s Championship match main evented Raw.

Flair appeared in the January 2016 issue of Muscle & Fitness. Flair ranked 29th out of 50 in the 2017 Sports Illustrated fittest woman athletes of the year. In June 2018, Flair appeared in the ESPN Body 10 magazine. Flair made her video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K17 and has since appeared in WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19 , WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K Battlegrounds. In 2017, Flair portrayed Heather Rockrear in Psych: The Movie. Flair released Second Nature: The Legacy of Ric Flair and the Rise of Charlotte, co-written with her father and Brian Shields, author of the WWE Encyclopedia. on September 19, 2017. According to a report of Deadline Hollywood, Flair will star in a remake of the film “Walking Tall”.

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